In this last session of the Re-learning Social Science Communication series, we invite current and former journalists working in core areas of EUI research - international law and security, economic justice, trade policy, macroeconomic policy-making. Social scientists are increasingly expected to engage with external audiences and communicate their findings to the wider public, while navigating fractured audiences and the so-called ‘post-truth’ environment of social media.

As academics may need to relearn how to communicate social science research, journalists appear as crucial interlocutors. They often have background conversations with researchers for a news story, present social science insights that they expect to be of interest to their readers and use social science research to understand the complexities of a salient issue. The aim of this roundtable is to gain a better understanding of how journalists relate to academic social science research, and how they see its communication changing.

Speakers:

Iana Dreyer (European trade policy Borderlex, RSC fellow)

William Drozdiak (former Washington Post before he became a think tanker and non-fiction writer, RSC fellow)

Sebastian Dullien (former Financial Times Deutschland, now Director of Macroeconomic Policy Institute)