Engaged Science Journalism. The ENJOI Podcast.

The ENJOI podcast is out!  Listen to "Engaged Science Journalism", a journey through the experiences of some European media who found innovative ways to survive, or even grow, in a post-pandemic world.

How is science journalism evolving in Europe? The Covid-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and many other global challenges highlight the urgency of improving science journalism in innovative ways. Often through non-conventional or independent channels. The ENJOI podcast "Engaged Science Journalism" goes through the experiences of some European media who found innovative ways to survive, or even grow, in a post-pandemic world. Adapting and improving their coverage of scientific topics in a fast-changing environment and using engagement as a key asset of innovation.

Engaged Science Journalism

In the past three years, the European project ENJOI explored and tested engagement as a key asset of innovation in science communication and science journalism. We investigated the existing media landscape in science communication and science journalism through the prism of engagement, data, innovation, and solutions. The podcast "Engaged Science Journalism" gathers some of the voices and experiences collected during this research, providing at the same time insights deriving from the ENJOI project about how to promote engagement as a key asset of innovation in science communication and science journalism.

Episode #1. Joining forces. Cross-border collaborative journalism

Collaboration is a shared challenge in modern journalism. In the past years, with the pandemic and all the lockdowns, we discovered that going beyond national borders was becoming a need not only for science and research but also for information. In this episode, we talk about an innovative way of joining forces to produce high-quality journalistic investigations. It is called cross-border collaborative journalism.

With Brigitte Alfter, Arena for Journalism in Europe, & Jose Miguel Calatayud, freelance investigative journalist

Listen to "Joining forces. Cross-border collaborative journalism" on Spreaker.

Episode #2. Engaging people with complex data

“Data don’t lie”. Is this really true? The scientific endeavor is a complex process, and scientific data can be incomplete, can be highly complex, or can tell very different stories depending on how we are looking at these data. This is why engaging people with complex data can be the most challenging, and yet fascinating job.

With Matteo Moretti, Sheldon.studio

Listen to "Engaging people with complex data" on Spreaker.

Episode #3. Fact-checking to fight scientific misinformation

Fake news - false or inaccurate scientific information - travel around the web and reach more and more people. We had the strongest proof of that during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, someone is fighting to reverse this trend and stop misinformation. Recently, some media or independent journalists started to make fact-checking their core activity. An interesting approach, as the absolute protagonist of fact-checking is the audience. And so engagement is really a crucial ingredient for the success of fact-checking.

With Rocío Benavente, Maldita Ciencia, & Karin van den Boogaert, Wetenschap.nu

Listen to "Fact-checking to fight scientific misinformation" on Spreaker.

Episode #4. Independent investigative journalism

In recent years, several independent media outlets were born all around Europe, founded by journalists who didn’t find enough space and support in legacy media. Networks of these new media are slowly empowering more and more journalists to undertake relevant and impactful investigations. Many of these small, independent media outlets in Europe are also working very hard to build sustainable business models, sometimes based on the engagement with their audience.

With Raffaele Angius, Indip, &  Priti Patnaik, Geneva Health Files

Listen to "Independent investigative journalism" on Spreaker.

Episode #5. Engagement as a key asset of innovation

ENJOI is a European project exploring and testing engagement as a key asset of innovation in science communication and science journalism. We looked at the experiences of some European media which found innovative ways to survive, or even grow, in our post-pandemic world. In the past episodes, we heard the voices of some of the protagonists of these experiences. In this episode, we wrap up some of these insights together with the person that ideated the very concept of ENJOI, putting together research and journalism in a unique, innovative way.

Elisabetta Tola, formicablu, ENJOI coordinator

Listen to "Engagement as a key asset of innovation" on Spreaker.