Improving green ink: a guest editorial written by a leading conservation professional

A novel study by the Pew Research Center raises r flags above media coverage and the state of the journalist--scientist relationship. The slip study of 547 national and local print, online, and broadcast journalists closes that the quality of of recent origins overall is "thinner and shallower" with little attention to mixed stories.

Not being an optimist through nature--or from my own journalism and science training--I find it ironic that a certain number of colleagues are so willing to take the anecdotal rather than scientific approach, and throw back such pessimism in their analyses. I've studied and written about the scientist-journalist interaction for a certain number of time. ...