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Cristine Russell is a CJR contributing editor and the immediate past-president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is a former Shorenstein Center fellow and Washington Post reporter. In this article, he has stated an old problem which has grown worse in the digital age. The dark side of journalism has always been the degree to which some reporters rely on press releases and public relations offices as sources for stories. But recent newsroom cutbacks and increased pressure to churn out online news have given publicity operations even greater prominence in science coverage. Charles Petit, a veteran science reporter and media critic, is concerned that science news is spoon-fed directly to the media through well-written press releases and handouts has become a powerful disruptive tool eroding the chance that reporters will craft their own stories. In some cases the line between ...

George Johnson is an American journalist who has achieved some amazing feats, including winning the AAAS Science Journalism Award and being the  author of many well known books such as  The Cancer Chronicles  (2013),  The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments  (2008) and  Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics  (1999). He is also the  co-director of the Santa Fe Science Writing workshop and science writer at the New York Times. He believed that there is nothing so complex that a reasonably intelligent person cannot comprehend it.  George wanted to be a guitarist when he was of the age 15-16, along with his friend Ron Light who played guitar in a mediocre 1960s-era garage band. But George soon realized his approach towards music as entirely theoretical and his lack of rhythm for playing guitar. With his aspiring scientific curiosity, he was able to learn enough of the logic of basic harmony theory to exe...

  Ravish Kumar   is a prominent Indian author, journalist and media personality. He works as the Senior Executive Editor of NDTV India.   He hosts a number of programs including the channel's flagship weekday show   Prime Time ,   Hum Log ,  Ravish Ki Report   and   Des Ki Baat . His highly convincing oratory skills and his practice of presenting news backed up with facts and evidence is highly appreciated by everyone.  He has twice been conferred with Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for the  Best Journalist of the Year  and became the fifth Indian journalist to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2019. Here, We shall be seeing the summary of episode of one his series where he talks about the Government provided figures of Deaths due to COVID-19 and whether they can be trusted. According to the Government figures, the deaths due to COVID-19 are about 3 lakhs. But if we talk about the unofficial so...