Occasionally we did a more in-depth interview with a specialist, but still aimed at young people. It's surprising how many people are prepared to give just 10 minutes of their time for an interview. The course is well respected, and I think that a lot of scientists are quite keen to encourage people who know a lot about science to go into journalism, so science is not completely misrepresented in the media in the future. This is what I'd wanted to do, and the course confirmed it for me. And while I was there I worked for Science Line .
Science is an information service about science.
It endeavors to answer any question about the science that the general public may have. Students would phone up and have a conversation about the origins of the universe with you. We always worked in pairs, and if we didn't know the answers we had a team of experts we could call on. We went down to the eclipse - and were there in the rain. Well it wouldn't be prescriptive like that.