ABSTRACT
This chapter presents science news values, an interview with Jack Hart, finding stories in papers, anecdotes and more story sources. Science tackles selection bias by drawing random samples that are representative for entire populations. News values in science are based on the traditional news values, but have been formulated a bit more specifically by scholars. Badenschier & Wormer write in their paper that the most popular science topics worldwide are medicine, health and biology. While general news easily make the front page, science news is often only regarded as a nice-to-have section. The most frequent objection to using storytelling techniques both in scientific manuscripts and in conveying science to a lay audience is that science simply doesn’t unfold like a story. “First-person anecdotes can also help lighten the tone of a serious piece or demystify complicated or arcane concepts, such as a convoluted scientific process”.
