This solution will be possible, in the case of science news, only if journalists come to understand scientists and the ways of scientists, and if scientists come to understand journalists and their ways of working. The Nature of News Scientific study of news production shows us that news is a product, shaped by the community in which it is created and by the organizations and individuals involved in news construction. To be more precise, news comes about because news organizations seek to define something as news. Often, those news organizations are responding to individuals and organizations who wish to subsidize the production of a particular event or occurrence as news. In all cases, news is defined in part by its marketability.
News is what attracts listeners, viewers or readers to the news product.
A story about a fire last night or a mugging this morning is much more interesting to read than a lengthy story about the nature of fires or the trends in criminal activity. Or at least it is easier to write or present an interesting story about the fire last night or the mugging this morning than an equally interesting story about fires or crime in general. The Nature of Science Scientists do not treat any individual event as particularly meaningful or informative. Scientists know that a given study's findings are tentative, that they must be repeated and the generalizability of the findings examined and determined. I have worked both as a journalist and as a social scientist.