Futurity Swears It's Not Trying To Replace Journalists
Frustrated with the decline of science journalism, with entire news outlets cutting their science reporting staff wholesale, thirty-five of the country’s top universities have launched their own science news site.
Futurity.org showcases press releases and stories written by staff at the schools about the universities’ research. CJR investigates:
stories receive light editing in order to make them appealing to lay readers, but undergo no additional reporting. Moreover, Murphy emphasized the Futurity puts a lot of work into “presentation” and crafting an attractive Web site.
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