Reporting Science Conference 2008 – Presentation Downloads

The presentations from the 2008 Reporting Science conference are now available for download.

All files are in pdf format. Right click on each link for options to save.

Science and Media – Helping Society to Interpret Science
Dr Bob Scholes, CSIR (510kb)

Belinda Beresford – Senior health writer/deputy news editor
Swimming in a sea of viral haemorrhagic fevers (357kb)

Cutting edge advances in nanotechnology
Manfred Scriba, Chief Researcher & leader, CSIR (5,342kb)

Climate Change: Science, risk and uncertainty – telling the South African story
Leonie Joubert, science writer & Prof Coleen Vogel, School of Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies, Univ. of the Witwatersrand (5,382kb)

Ethics in Science Journalism
George Claassen, Department of Journalism, University of Stellenbosch (3,801kb)

Alternative Energy – The Science of Miscommunication
Jako Volschenk, Stellenbosch University (2,819kb)

Accelerating Renewable Energy Deployment
Dr Thembakazi Mali, Senior Manager: Clean Energy Solutions, SANERI (453kb)

The new, new,New Journalism: Reporting Adventures in Second Life
Arthur Goldstuck, MD World Wide Worx (5963kb)