This programme has three parts, designed to build engagement with, and update skills of health and science editors and senior journalists. Selected participants from the Asia Pacific region will undergo the following activities:
Part 1: Three 90-minutes online masterclasses
Part 2: One day in-person masterclass (Singapore)
Part 3: Three days World One Health Congress – Temasek Foundation Pinnacle Series on Health Care for Asia (Singapore)
Building on existing skills and knowledge, during this programme participants will:
Consider even more effective newsgathering processes and analyse effective storytelling formats to counter misinformation and be more confident in deploying them.
Identify the ways in which science stories can become even more compelling visual stories, including how to process and visualise data sets and bring multimedia elements into reporting.
Discover more about how to bring a solutions focus to science reporting in 2022 including awareness of what impact and be created and measured.
Explore opportunities to re-think and advance the practice of science journalism in ways that build on lessons learned across the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apply learning to real-world reporting scenarios, gaining trainer and peer feedback to support development.
Module 1: Countering Misinformation in Science Journalism
Virtual
Misinformation will continue to play a role in reporting, especially science. We now have effective news gathering processes and storytelling formats that we can deploy.
By the end of this module, participants will have an advanced ability to:
Identify key misinformation challenges and threats that have emerged during the pandemic.
Categorise the most pervasive strains of misinformation.
Compare and analyse strategies journalists can employ to combat misinformation and consider how to adapt these strategies to their own work.
In this in-person masterclass workshop, participants will explore the challenges that face science journalists in 2022 and use design thinking techniques to provide sustainable, regional solutions for science reporters and editors. Focusing on data, solutions, relationships with the scientific community and a lot of innovative storytelling.
By the end of this session participants will be have a greater capacity to:
Identify and extract insights on innovation from the cohort’s collective experience covering the Covid-19 pandemic.
Understand where they can improve and develop existing reporting processes that will prepare their newsrooms for the next crisis.
Explore opportunities for growth and development of science reporting in terms of subject, format and style.
