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The Conversation was fortunate enough to be invited to co-host a conference in Dublin last week which focused on the relationship between academia and journalism. This is, of course, something that we know a little about at The Conversation, having spent more than a decade bringing academics together with professional journalists to create content that’s of value and interest to a broad public readership.
Indeed, the opening session of the conference, held at the splendid Royal Irish Academy and organised by University College Dublin’s Clinton Institute, was titled Academic Journalism, and I was asked to say a few words to kick things off. That headline had come about without any prompting from The Conversation, but the very term “academic journalism” has long sat at the heart of our internal considerations of the work we do.
But what is academic journalism? For my thoughts on the subject, click here. Critically, though, to me it’s about the particular value that teaming up editors and academics can bring to readers. And a great example of that is evident in the storytelling in this research-rich lead article today.
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It is in three core approaches to delivering value to readers that I find a definition of ‘academic journalism’.
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