- Introduction
- How Science Works
- Sources and Experts: Where to Find Them and How to Vet Them
- Making Sense of Science Stats
- Editing for Story
- Editing Controversial Science
- Holding Science to Account
- Covering Health Care
- Climate and the Environment
- Fact-Checking Science Journalism: How to Make Sure Your Stories Are True
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Illustrating Complex Science Stories
- Introduction
- The Role of Visuals in Science Journalism
- The Process of Building Science-Centric Graphics
- Strategies for Using Visuals to Put Breaking Science in Context
- Special Considerations for Data Visualization
- Uncertainty and Misinformation
- Editorial Illustration, Photography, and Moving Images
- Additional Reading and Resources
- About the Author
- Social Media and Reader Engagement
- Popular Science
- Misinformation
- Op-Eds and Essays
- About This Handbook
About the Author
Fen Montaigne began his journalism career at the Houma Courier, a small daily in Louisiana’s Cajun country. He went on to spend 20 years as a newspaper reporter, 15 of them at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He was the Moscow correspondent during the collapse of the Soviet Union and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. He spent a dozen years working as a freelance writer, with articles appearing in National Geographic, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He is the author of several books, including the travel/adventure tale Reeling in Russia, and an account of climate change in Antarctica, Fraser’s Penguins, for which he received a Guggenheim fellowship. He helped launch the magazine Yale Environment 360 in 2008 and is its senior editor.