Joining the Conversation: Newspaper Journalists' Views on Working with Researchers

A new report examines relationships between media and researchers and concludes:

* The media can be powerful forces for helping get research used.
* The journalist-researcher relationship is critical to using the media to promote more evidence-based dialogue among policy makers and the public.
* Researchers should treat journalists as knowledge brokers in health policy-making because they bring public attention to issues policy makers are grappling with.

• Insight and Action

  http://www.chsrf.ca/other_documents/insight_action/pdf/insight_action15_e.pdf

  Canadian Health Services Research Foundation on Newspaper Journalists' Views on Working with Researchers