How to Communicate Research with the News Media to Promote Accuracy and Coverage of Important Issues

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session will bring together two veteran journalists and a scholar with extensive experience working with the news media. They will discuss best practices and offer useful advice for how education researchers can build and foster productive relationships with journalists that allow them to share their newsworthy scholarship and inform news coverage of important education/higher education issues. They will also solicit feedback from attendees on how journalists can work with researchers to prevent errors in their coverage of complex issues. There will be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and briefly share about their potentially newsworthy work.

Sub Unit

• AERA Research and Science Policy Sessions

Chair/Moderator

• Tony Pals, American Educational Research Association

Participants

• Dominique Baker, University of Delaware

• Jill Barshay, The Hechinger Report

• Denise Ordway, The Journalist's Resource