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Rick Weiss

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Rick Weiss is director of SciLine, a free service for reporters covering science, health, and the environment that is based at the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has more than three decades of experience in journalism, including 15 years as a science reporter at The Washington Post and more than a decade coordinating media affairs in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors around issues of science and technology.

Using Rapid-Response Expertise to Strengthen 2020 Campaign Coverage

Using Rapid-Response Expertise to Strengthen 2020 Campaign Coverage

The U.S. presidential election may be a year and a half away, but polls are already ranking—and rankling—the still-developing field of 2020 candidates, prompting familiar, biennial pleadings for journalists to…
"Our hope is that by providing nuggets of scientifically grounded evidence and quick access to experts... reason and rationality may ultimately prevail"

“Our hope is that by providing nuggets of scientifically grounded evidence and quick access to experts… reason and rationality may ultimately prevail”

The request came in as most do for us at SciLine—by email, from a reporter seeking an expert for a story she was working on. But this one was different.…