A news and features specialist...
I once saw someone on the train avidly reading a newspaper. The reader scoured every page until coming to a spread of science news - here, and only here, they quickly flipped to the next section. What is it about the words "science" and "technology" that makes people feel they are ill-equipped to read on? Or that these fields don't impact their lives? Certainly, many feel this way - but reasons to stay informed have never been clearer. From the hacking of multinational firms to the discovery of particles that reveal the secrets of our universe - these stories keep breaking and they need to be told well.
...reporting on science and technology
Technology journalism should go beyond endless gadget reviews. And science journalism should not just be for the already-initiated. There are powerful and often quite human stories here. It's necessary to go deep, to get at that nexus between technology and society. And to explain how our understanding of science is evolving so that we can better comprehend epidemics, climate change or the conservation of endangered species - to name but a few examples. These things are, in a nutshell, what I'm constantly compelled to investigate. That's what I write about.
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