Innovative Journalism Practices: Insights for Reporting Science and Health Issues

This chapter reviews recent literature to provide an overview of the current state of the field in technological innovation in journalism generally and science and health journalism specifically. This chapter begins by asking, “How can technology improve science and health journalism?” To answer this question, we will first discuss the challenges that science and health journalism face, as well as how technology can help overcome those challenges. The chapter’s second question is, “How can we use technology to connect the public with science and health?” We investigate how technology can improve science journalism in terms of simplicity, context, and interactive storytelling, thereby increasing community engagement with science and health. Finally this chapter identifies gaps in the existing research, and provides directions and questions for future research.