NSF Stopping Death Of Science Content?
Friday, June 10, 2011 - 09:40
in Mathematics & Economics
Did science in newspapers die? By 2009, USA Today, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal ended their Science sections, leaving just the New York Times as a major paper with a dedicated science section. CNN cut their entire science and tech team.Dana Topousis of the NSF discussed the role of the National Science Foundation in the new media landscape at a DCSWA workshop in 2009. She noted that the NSF.gov's "Discoveries" gets the most traffic of the NSF site. NSF sees its role as protecting scientist's free speech. One venture they launched is Science360.gov, as a 1-stop shop for any science news.read more