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Dec 21, 2004 Commentary
Choices that Make Radio Science Stories

by Blanka Jergovic

What makes a science story? Behind the scene there are many choices: what, how and when to broadcast. Decisions are made according to the general criteria of news values to which we add two groups: personal and emerging criteria. General criteria of choices are news values for the science stories. According to Tonner, stories containing human interest are important in everyday life, report less complicate discoveries and science as a part of the broader subject comes to the media easily.

Volume 3 • Issue 04 • 2004