Diversify Science: Assessing Local Scientific Journals to Get Story Ideas

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Diversify Science: Assessing Local Scientific Journals to Get Story Ideas is one of the session in Science Journalism Forum held from 24th to 26th of Aug 2020. In this session, that will be moderated by Indonesian science journalist Dyna Rochmyaningsih, we will discuss the following subjects:

Dyna Rochmyaningsih (Freelance journalist, Indonesia)

“Importing science: The Western domination of science journalism in Global South,”                              

  • The state of science coverage in Indonesia and Southeast Asia
  • Why local science matters
  • Examples of local journals in Southeast Asia

Dasapta Erwin (Indonesia Open Science Team)

“Probing local scientific journals: A How-to”                       

  • How Open Science could help journalists locate potential scientific journals/database.
  • Showcasing Open Science repositories.
  • How to avoid predatory journals in Global South.

Esther Nakkazi (speaker)

“The state of science coverage in Africa”

  • Examples of African scientific journals used in science coverage
  • How to locate scientific journals in Africa

Roberta Jansen (speaker)       

  • “The state of science coverage in Latin America”    Examples of Latin American scientific journals used in science coverage                           
  • How to locate scientific journals in Latin America

Here’s the summary of my talk (pre-recorded) in Indonesian, in Akademia Terbalik podcast.

And below is my slide decks.

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Pre-recorded presentation

Part 1

Part 2