Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A scientific journalist is a journalist specialized in writing about science topics. A scientific journalist needs to be proficient in both areas: as a journalist, writing good enough for magazines and newspapers. And as an amateur scientist, or at least as a dedicated learner capable of follow a potentially complex science and explain it in simple terms. Many scientific journalists, after years of experience, are expert enough on a subject to publish entire books about a topic, e.g. astronomy, oceanography, geology, etc. These books are a major channel for public education - often a scientist's writing is too terse to be enjoyable, while a book written by a good scientific journalist can interest the generic reader and convey a great amount of information. Notable scientific journalists: Piero Angela (and his son Alberto Angela) Christopher Bird Barry Cipra Gina Kolata Robert Kunzig This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.