Rachel Crowell

Articles by: Rachel Crowell

Including LGBTQ+ Scientists as Sources

Ensuring gender and sexual diversity when choosing sources for science stories shouldn’t be seen as an act of community service or a nice political-correctness touch. It serves something central to journalism itself: the story. Meaningful dimensions of our stories—whether they are news articles, features, investigations, profiles, or stories about science careers—are compromised if we choose to only include straight, cisgender sources.

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by Rachel Crowell · March 12, 2019 · 0 comments

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