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VIGYAN PRASAR: 54th GOVERNING BODY MEETING & 31st GENERAL BODY MEETING
5.6. Science Communication Popularization & its Extension (SCoPE) in News for Print-Electronic-Social Media
INDIA SCIENCE WIRE
1. The main objective of ISW is to highlight science and technology (S&T) research activities in Indian labs/research institutions in the media for public consumption. The ISW editorial team sources stories from research papers published in reputed journals and those presented in S&T events such as conferences. Besides, stories are also generated based on specific inputs from various S&T institutions, interviews of scientists, and on policies.
2. The in-house team of ISW comprises minimal editorial, technical and social media staff. Efforts have been made to build a team of high-quality science writers to work on freelance basis, which resulted in having an external pool of freelance science writers. Most of these freelancers are PhD holders in science.
3. Major scientific conferences such as the Indian Science Congress and the India International Science Festival (IISF) have been exhaustively covered by science reporters and editors of ISW. The institutions covered by ISW include Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), laboratories of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), autonomous institutions under the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), as well as leading universities such as Jawarharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi University (DU), University of Hyderabad, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), and University of Madras. Further, the team ISW has also made efforts to develop its own input and story-lead gathering mechanism.
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