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About this episode

Talking to the MediaModeratorDavid Secko, Department of Journalism, Concordia UniversityPresentersJaymie M. Matthews, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBCElizabeth M. Simpson, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, UBCDuring this session of the conference, two prominent UBC scientists present recent research in a press-conference-like setting. After the presentations, the audience asked questions about the science, but this was also an opportunity to create a dialogue between scientists, journalists and media experts in the same room about what was included in the press release, how the questions were answered, what else the journalists might have wanted from the scientists, what the scientists thought of the journalists' questions, etc.

• Release Date

  Dec 19, 2007

• Runtime

  22:54