Starter
tool kit
for science
journalists
Suggestions from Alan Boyle
(and Jeff South via Quill)
Searching for stories E-mail lists (news releases)
News.google.com AAS mailing list (contact)
http://news.google.com http://www.aas.org/meetings/press/
Google Alerts AScribe
http://www.google.com/alerts http://www.ascribe.org/
Knight Science Journalism Tracker NASA
http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/ http://www1.nasa.gov/audience/
RSS feeds from favorite sources formedia/features/
http://www.live.com/ listserve_switch_qanda.html
Zuula.com Space Telescope Science Institute
http://www.zuula.com http://hubblesite.org/
Factiva – Lexis/Nexis – ProQuest, etc. newscenter/press_resources/
May be available via your local library
http://www.kcls.org/databases/
Discussion forums
Habitable Zone
Searching for people http://www.habitablezone.com/nexus/
Anywho index.asp?svcpt=space
http://www.anywho.com NASW listservs
Argali (application) http://www.nasw.org/listservs/
http://www.argali.com/
University directories Translation services
http://www.washington.edu/ http://babelfish.altavista.com
home/peopledir/ http://www.freetranslation.com
X.500 directory for NASA http://translate.google.com
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/x500/nasa.html
YoName
http://www.yoname.com Cheap multimedia
http://www.blogpoll.com
http://audacity.soundforge.net
Publication Web sites http://www.youtube.com
EurekAlert http://www.soundslides.com
http://www.eurekalert.org http://picasa.google.com
Nature For video editing:
http://press.nature.com Windows Movie Maker or Mac iMovie
Expert blogs … a sampler
A to Z: Marine biology etc:
Correlations Deep Sea News
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/ http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/
wiredscience/blogs/correlations/ TOPP
Science Bloggers on Facebook http://www.topp.org
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?
gid=4485600217
Science Blogs Physics etc.:
http://www.scienceblogs.com Bad Astronomy Blog
Wired Blogs http://www.badastronomy.com/
http://blog.wired.com/ Cosmic Variance
http://www.cosmicvariance.com/
Not Even Wrong
Biotech / Bioethics etc.: http://www.math.columbia.edu/
Blog.Bioethics.net ~woit/wordpress/
http://blog.bioethics.net A Quantum Diaries Survivor
My Biotech Life http://dorigo.wordpress.com/
http://my.biotechlife.net/ US LHC Bloggers
http://www.uslhc.us/
The_US_and_the_LHC/US_LHC_Blogs
Climate science etc.:
Real Climate Science policy:
http://www.realclimate.org/ The Intersection
http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/
The Natural Patriot
Epidemiology / public health etc.: http://www.naturalpatriot.org/
Aetiology
http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/ Space etc.:
The Pump Handle NASA Watch
http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/ http://www.nasawatch.com/
Personal Spaceflight
http://www.personalspaceflight.info/
Evolution etc.: RLV and Space Transport News
The Loom http://www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/
http://scienceblogs.com/loom/
Panda’s Thumb Your own blog:
http://www.pandasthumb.org/ http://www.blogger.com
Pharyngula http://www.typepad.com
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ http://www.wordpress.com
Send suggestions to alan.boyle@msnbc.com
Updates will be maintained at http://family.boyle.net/toolkit.doc