Question: What is science journalism?

Answer: Science journalism is relatively new branch of journalism, in which journalists reporting conveys information on science topics to the public.

Science journalists must understand and interpret very detailed, technical and sometimes jargon-laden information and render it into interesting reports that are comprehensible to the consumers of the news.

Question: What are the obstacles in science journalism?

Answer: Most of the journalists in Africa covering science have no training in the sciences they cover, including several medical journalists who cover medicine.

Journalists must choose which developments in science merit the news coverage, as well as cover disputes within the scientific community with a balance of fairness to both sides but also with a devotion to the facts.