How to Deal with Journalists? Straight from the Horse's Mouth

Date

22/11/2017

Hour

15.00 h.

Place

Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Charles Darwin Room
(Doctor Aiguader, 88) Barcelona

Speaker

Joanne Silberner (University of Washington)

What should you do when a reporter calls? American journalist Joanne Silberner talks about what she hopes will happen when she calls a scientist, and what she hopes won't happen, and how you can make sure that the journalist gets the story right.

Joanne Silberner is a global health reporter and artist-in-residence at the University of Washington in Seattle. For 18 years, she covered health issues for NPR. Silberner has an undergraduate degree in biology from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She spent a year on a fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health, and has also had fellowships from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Carter Center.