99% of science journalism is repeating a press release that came out of a university's press office. It's very hard to become a science journalist where you ca

99% of science journalism is repeating a press release that came out of a university's press office. It's very hard to become a science journalist where you can pursue your own stories, because the market for this is practically zero in comparison to other parts of the media. I always try to pay for media that publishes stories from the likes of, say, Ed Yong, and leave messages that I'm doing it for the science journalism. But I doubt it has much substantial effect on how much real science journalism happens.