As part of the UK “Science for All” deliberations, the Science and the Media expert group have released Science and the Media: Securing the Future.

This report outlines a number of actions and recommendations.

Taken together, the proposed actions will:

• support the accurate reporting of science through a range of new training initiatives for journalists, press officers and scientists
• foster an environment within which engaging science programmes can be made, and reach the widest possible audience
• begin to address the serious threat to the quality and independence of science reporting posed by the wider crisis in journalism. The group issued a call for all who care about the quality of science reporting to act now safeguard improvements made in recent years
• promote openness and transparency across science, facilitating public engagement with, and debate of, scientific issues

The Group’s Report, Science and the Media: Securing the Future , was published on 13 January 2010.

• Mapping the Field: Specialist science news journalism in the UK national media – Research for the Group by Cardiff University
• Summary Actions and Recommendations
• Annex 3a – Read Alpha Galileo Foundation Letter
• Annex 3b – Submission by the Association of British Science Writers
• Annex 4 – New Initiatives in Science Journalism
• Annex 5 – Results of the public consultation
• Annex 6 – Things you should know about
• Annex 7 – Science Journalism, Skills and Training
• Summary of Regulation of the Media