Belinda Smith
Online Science Reporter , Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Belinda Smith is the online science reporter in the ABC's Science Unit. She writes and produces digital news and features for the ABC News website and makes radio features for Radio National. Her work has appeared in the Best Australian Science Writing 2016 and 2018.
Sessions
Finding the Story: Perspectives on the Journalism/Public Relations Divide
Journalists and public relations officers often want the same thing: to find interesting stories and tell them to a wide audience. But the way that journalists and PR officers approach the challenge of finding a good story is very different. In this session, we speak to a mass-media science journalist, a niche science journalist, and an ex-journalist turned public information officer to discover how they go about finding the right story for their audience.