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What are the 2008 Media Fellows getting up to?
Media Fellows working in the press centre at the 2007 BA Festival of Science
Most of 2008's BA Media Fellows have now taken a dive into the media world.

Angela Hodges is working with BBC News Channel correspondent Nick Higham. Both Frances Harris and Lorna Dawson are based in Birmingham. Frances with BBC Radio's Farming Today & Costing The Earth and Lorna with BBC's Countryfile.

Marcus Pearce was immersed in science media at The Guardian. He blogged about Darwin, magic and sleep amongst other topics and wrote an article about pollen helping to solve gun crimes! Another blogger, Katrina Charles at Nature/Nature online, wrote about radioactivity in kitchen countertops and melting glaciers as well as contributing news items on pollution and green rooftops.

Matt Rooney at Times Higher Education has written about The Great Global Warming Swindle and junior research fellowships. Rather appropriately he also wrote an article on scientists in the media.

Jennifer Carpenter at BBC News Interactive writes about mapping the world's oceans and how bees might help us track serial killers. She's now transferred to the BBC Radio Science Unit and Elizabeth Mitchell has taken her place with BBC News Interactive. Elizabeth seems to be picking up all the livestock stories, from grazing cows to foot and mouth.

Further afield, Ashok Jansari at The Irish Times wrote about the mixing of senses and binge drinking.  

Look out for more information here as the final Media Fellow takes her first hesitant steps as a science journalist at the Financial Times. Links to articles will appear once they are available.

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"The speed at which the science desk can make podcasts, write stories, then blog about them, let alone research, interview or go into the field to dig out fresh stories, is as astounding as is their encyclopaedic knowledge."

Tristan Farrow, Semiconductor Physicist, University of Cambridge






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