Weltkonferenz 2013 der Wissenschaftsjournalisten

Science meets Journalism
at WCSJ2013 in Helsinki

(Aufruf von Minttu Hilden,
Projektmanager für die Konferenz)

TELI Session @ WCSJ 2013:

DEBATE-DRIVEN JOURNALISM: SCIENCE DEBATES AS A TOOL AND OPPORTUNITY FOR SCIENCE JOURNALISTS

This session aims directly at the heart of the WCSJ motto “Critical Questioning in the Public sphere” as Science Debates are a solution for science journalists to perform better with their role in society.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 (morning session)

Hanns-J. Neubert: The need to think anew in science journalism and experiences from the German Science Debate.
Priit Ennet: The Estonian Science Debate and the need to be international.
Shawn L. Otto: The idea of the first ever Science Debate, the tenets learned from two election campaigns, and the need to broaden globally.

Details here

TELI unterstützt Session zum Thema Datenjournalismus: Data explored — the code that underpins the future of journalism

Datenjournalismus oder wie der Code, die Zukunft des Journalismus prägt. Auf der World Conference of Science Journalists in Helsinki bietet die Podiumsdiskussion mit Workshop "Data explored – the code that underpins the future of journalism" Wissenschaftsjournalisten Fallstudien, Denkanstöße und Methoden für eigene Geschichten und jede Menge Handwerkszeug und Tools für den Start in den Datenjournalismus. Details zu den Referenten: http://wcsj2013.org/data-explored-code-underpins-future-journalism/

Fragen und Anregungen können während der von TELI und der South African Science Journalists' Association gemeinsam veranstalteten Paneldiskussion am 26.06.2013 von 14:00-15:30 Uhr via Twitter @WCSJ2013 eingebracht werden. Im Anschluss steht ein mit den lessons learned und vielen nützlichen Links, Tools und Tipps zum Download zur Verfügung.

Study trip to Estonia
after the WCSJ in Helsinki, 28-29 June

There are still six places available to a two-day post-WCSJ2013 study trip to the Estonian research centres in Tallinn and Tartu that the Estonian Association is organising together with the Estonian Research Council.

Here is some brief info on the WCSJ web site: http://wcsj2013.org/post-conference-exkursions/#6, and you can find a more detailed programme in the attached document. Feel free to send the information to your members -- and consider taking the trip yourself if you are planning to come to the WCSJ in Helsinki.

Technically, this is not an EUSJA study trip, so you can register to the trip as a part of the registration process on the WCSJ site: http://wcsj2013.org/registration/. I understand that one can also register to the trip after having registered to the conference, by writing to wcsj2013@confedent.fi.

Developing-world sessions purged from WCSJ2013 programme

The organising committee of the upcoming global gathering of science journalists has made sudden changes to the programme last month, cutting several sessions that focused on developing country issues and leaving journalists disappointed.

Those producing now-dropped sessions have been invited to instead take part in a single, general 'around the world' session, according to the organisers of the 2013 World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ2013), which is being held in Helsinki, Finland, from 24–28 June.

Sessions on neglected diseases and African journalism are among six cut Several developing-world journalists may now be unable to attend Organisers blame a lack of cash to pay for speakers to attend, but say they are working on providing more funds Six sessions in total were cut despite being accepted and listed in the preliminary programme, which has now been taken off the event's website.

The sessions were axed because of a lack of funding needed to help pay for their producers and speakers to attend.

The cuts follow a change in the staffing of the conference organising committee, including the resignation of conference director Eeva Pitkälä, who presided over the initial programme's selection.

Pitkälä could not be reached for comments on the changes to the programme or the reasons for her resignation.

Bernard Appiah, a journalist from Ghana and a producer of a cut session on science journalism in Africa, was hoping to attend his first WCSJ, but his chances of doing so are now slim.

"Cutting the session entirely seems inappropriate, because it is now unlikely that any of the speakers will be able to attend the conference," Appiah says.

As well as two sessions exploring African and non-English speaking journalism, two sessions on neglected disease and tuberculosis reporting and two sessions on issues facing South America's science and media have also been cut.

"This would have been the very first time that Latin America's science journalism was going to be explored and exposed at the WCSJ," says Angela Posada-Swafford, a Colombian science journalist who was the producer of the cut session on science and science journalism in Latin America. "This is the only region that is historically a bit neglected in these conferences."

Posada-Swafford may still be able to attend, but most of the six panelists for her session will not. "We all depended on financial help to travel," she says.

Reetta Kettunen, vice-chair of the conference's organising committee,
says: "If no funding from WCSJ2013 is needed, then you may be certain that the sessions will be allocated time in the WCSJ2013 programme."

According to Kettunen, the programme will "evolve" until the end of April, with space for ad hoc sessions to be added later.

She adds that the two-hour 'around the world' session will have more impact than focused shorter sessions that would be competing for the same audience.

In recent years, up to half of WCSJ attendees have come from developing countries. Yesterday, the WCSJ2013 invited applications for travel scholarships for journalists from developing countries.

And Kettunen says that the conference team is working to acquire more sponsorships so that they can offer scholarships to those who cannot afford to come.

Disclaimer: SciDev.Net's news editor is a co-producer of one cut session.

http://www.scidev.net/en/science-communication/science-journalism/news/developing-world-sessions-purged-from-wcsj2013-programme.html

Hier das komplette Programm der WCSJ als pdf herunterladen.

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