Science journalism - past, present, future
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Science journalism - past, present, future
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- Country:
- Sweden
- What do you do?
- Reporter, Researcher
- Organisation
- Freelance and Stockholm County Council
- Fields of interest
- science, health, poverty reduction, biotechnology, policy
- Email address
- davidfiner@hotmail.com
- Website:
- http://finermedia.se
- Languages
- English, Swedish, German, French
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- David Finer , UK-born medical writer, living in Sweden since I came as a child with my parents. Husband, father of three. Trained in social sciences. In 1999 I defended a licentiate thesis on consumer drug information and the mass media in Vietnam at Karolinska Institutet medical university in Stockholm, where I am a PhD student. I have taught medical journalism, health communication, etc , been a communications consultant in Lao PDR, Vietnam, Bolivia and Moldavia and received research and study grants from Swedish Medical Research Council, Swedish National Council on Research (FRN), the Wahlgren Foundation, Swedish Agency for Research Collaboration with Developing Countries (SAREC), and the Swedish Fund for Research without Animal Experiments. I wish to primarily discuss and collaborate around issues of professionalism and ethics in science journalism, conflicting roles of journalists and scientists and networking.
Selected publications: (1) Finer D, Tomson G, Björkman N-M: Ally, advocate, analyst, agenda-setter? Positions and perceptions of Swedish medical journalists. Patient Education and Counseling: 30(1); 71-81. 1997. (2) Grilli R, Freemantle N, Domenighetti L, Finer D. The Effect of Mass Media on Health Sevices Utilization and Health Care Outcomes. A Review of the Literature., National Health Services, UK. 1997. (3) Finer D, Thurén T, Tomson G. Tet Offensive: Winning Hearts and Minds for Prevention. Discourse and Ideology in the Vietnamese ‘Health’ Newspaper. Social Science and Medicine 1998;47(1):133-145. (4) Finer D, Tomson G. Medicines in the News: Content Analysis of Articles on Medicines in Vietnamese Newspapers 1993-94. Published in International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine1999;12:109-122.
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Wir können gern auf Deutsch kommunizieren - gar kein Problem! ;-)
Ich habe einmal versucht Schwedisch zu lernen, aber viel weiter als Jo heijter Marlene - vo hejter du? Verafron kommer du? bin ich nie gekommen... (please excuse my spelling!) ;-))
Du bist in vielen spannenden Ländern unterwegs gewesen - klasse!
Viele Grüße,
Marlene.
Sorry for reply you so late because I've come back from a trip go to the mountain province (It is poor and so far from the city without Internet :-(
Now I work as a researcher on public opinion and mass media. My major studies include reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, and harm reduction interventions...
Hope a little information will satisfy your curiousness :-)
Please feel free to contact with me if you have any questions.
All the best.