ABSTRACT
One of the academic routes into science journalism is studying for a degree in science journalism. Science journalism programmes equip science journalist with the necessary skills to report on science and get published, and they also cover the business aspects of being a science journalist. Pursuing and completing a degree in science writing is by no means an infallible way of starting a career as a science journalist, but it does teach the fundamentals of good science writing and provide a good sense of topics to propose, which can help jumpstart science journalist's career. Another graduate science journalism programme is the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) at New York University. SHERP includes courses on writing and reporting as well as topic selection, ethics, investigative science journalism and medical and environmental reporting. It is important to know that there is no one route that leads to becoming an established science journalist, apart from producing constantly high-quality articles.
