Rick Weiss is director of SciLine, a free service for reporters covering science, health, and the environment that is based at the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has more than three decades of experience in journalism, including 15 years as a science reporter at The Washington Post and more than a decade coordinating media affairs in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors around issues of science and technology.
The U.S. presidential election may be a year and a half away, but polls are already ranking—and rankling—the still-developing field of 2020 candidates, prompting familiar, biennial pleadings for journalists to resist the siren call of horse-race journalism and keep their … Read more
The request came in as most do for us at SciLine—by email, from a reporter seeking an expert for a story she was working on. But this one was different. She didn’t work for a newspaper or … Read more
