The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the launch of SciLine, a new service that will provide journalists with high-quality scientific expertise and context - on demand and on deadline. In addition to connecting reporters and editors with credible scientists who can quickly and accurately provide evidence-based information of relevance to news stories, SciLine will produce accessible summaries on a variety of newsworthy, science-relevant topics and gather on-the-record comments from experts for use by reporters as they prepare their stories.
While freely available to all journalists, SciLine is designed to be particularly useful to reporters in small and medium media markets who are writing or producing stories about health, medicine, or science and may not have deep science backgrounds or immediate access to credible experts.
SciLine is based at AAAS headquarters in Washington, DC, and will serve reporters and editors at news outlets throughout the United States. Generous funding support has been provided by the Quadrivium Foundation, with additional funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation, and the Heinz Endowments.
Rick Weiss will serve as the SciLine director. Weiss brings more than three decades of experience in journalism and public affairs to SciLine, including 15 years as a science reporter at the Washington Post and more than 10 years leading strategic communications and media relations around issues of science and technology in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
SciLine's media activities and operations are guided by an advisory board composed of 14 members, including reporters and editors working in large and small markets on print, broadcast, and digital platforms; communications professionals and academic scholars; and scientists committed to communication with reporters and the public.
SciLine is editorially independent of AAAS and its philanthropic funders.
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