Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Conversation: The Academician as a Journalist Site

The online publication "The Conversation-Beta" engages academicians as journalists to provide news. Academicians from a Group of Eight universities (ANU, University of Adelaide, Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Queensland, and University of Western Australia) plus University of Technology, Sydney, CSIRO, and the Australian Science Media Centre have agreed to contribute to the publication.

The Conversation Media Trust, a not-for-profit company owns the publication and the publication is based in Melbourne, Australia. (Source: About The Conversation)

The sections available are:

Business + Economy
Environment + Energy
Health + Medicine
Politics + Society
Science + Technology

The articles are licensed under creative commons - Attribution - No derivatives.

No comments:

Post a Comment