Education and Outreach Colloquium, Kate Tobin

Affiliation: CNN: Science and Technology Unit
Event Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Location: NASA GSFC, Building 33, Room H114
Time: 12:00 PM

Science Reporting -- A Journalist's Perspective
Earth science is key to many of the big news stories of our time -- from natural disasters like earthquakes and volcano eruptions to complex issues like global climate change. Many would say the efforts of researchers to better understand these processes go generally under-reported, or even mis-reported, in a crowded news marketplace. At the same time, the scientific community must face the challenge of getting the information out in a clear, concise manner...explaining difficult, sometimes obscure concepts to non-experts, and putting it all into perspective. Science journalists work in the zone where these realities meet... waging a daily battle to sort out the important from the trivial, and figure out how to tell the story in an understandable, engaging way.

About Our Speaker
Kate Tobin is a Senior Producer with CNN's Science & Technology Unit. In her 16 years with the network, she has reported on all aspects of science news, including environmental issues, earth science, computer technology, and manned and unmanned space missions. In 1994, she won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for her roll as Coordinating Producer on the special program "In Nature's Wake: The Floods in the Midwest." She has international field production experience, and will travel to Antarctica this November to produce a series of reports on National Science Foundation sponsored research there. Kate graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, with a Biology/English double major.

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Posted or updated: Thursday, September 28, 2006

Editor: Goran Halusa

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