Keeping it Simple - A New Newsletter on Communicating

Journalists can’t do their jobs without help. This is doubly true for health and science reporters, who rely on the goodwill of scientists and doctors and epidemiologists and patients and nurses and other experts to explain and explain until we get it.

It takes a lot of explaining.

I, for one, took a long time to get it. I wrote a lot of wrong stuff. People were very patient with me.

One very small thing I can do to try and pay some of this back is to share a little of what I have learned about what works to communicate the hard stuff about science and medicine.

This is an important time to do it, when so many people have lost trust in the truth and when liars are winning out.

So I have launched a newsletter on plain communication.

I tried not to sign up subscribers to get it automatically as I don’t believe in torture. But Substack doesn’t support that function, so sorry. If you are interested, I would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, requests, queries, etc.

Thank you.