Should a journalism conference be sponsored by industries the journalists report on?
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English - October 26, 2017 14:06 - 7 minutes - 6.54 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Today marks the opening of the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco.
Over 1,300 people will be in attendance, and that's a big number.
But there's an even bigger number that may not get as much attention but really should: The conference is receiving $400,000 from biomedical giant, Johnson & Johnson, and another $200,000 from various companies such as Bayer, Sanofi, 23andMe, and AstraZeneca.
In this podcast we ask the question: Should health care journalists -- or their professional organizations -- take money from the people they report on regularly?