Now that I'm writing multiple news stories a week I'm interviewing (primarily) physicists constantly and again realizing how few get any media training. Here's an imperfect/incomplete list of things to keep in mind if you find yourself interviewed for a news/magazine story 🧵 Often the biggest lift for the writer is explaining why a study/paper is important or interesting at all. The reader rarely has knowledge of past work, trends in the field or what is even standard for some subgenre of research. Start broad and try to give lots of context first 1/

Last week we started the 10th semester of a grad/undergrad #mentoring program I’ve been leading for the past 5 yrs. We pair students w a mentor/mentee and run events to support those relationships. It’s community building 2 ppl at the time. Our membership nears double digits /1 I talk about mentoring all the time and launching into my last semester with this group has me reflecting on why it has become so important to me /2