ScienceDaily
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Type of site | Press release distribution |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | ScienceDaily, LLC |
| URL | sciencedaily |
| Launched | 1995 |
| Current status | Active |
ScienceDailyis an American website launched in 1995 that aggregatespress releasesand publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice calledchurnalism) about science, similar toPhys.organdEurekAlert!.[1][2][3]
The site was founded by married couple Dan and Michele Hogan in 1995; Dan Hogan formerly worked in the public affairs department ofJackson Laboratorywriting press releases.[4]The site makes money from selling advertisements.[4]As of 2010,[update]the site said that it had grown "from a two-person operation to a full-fledged news business with worldwide contributors". At the time, it was run out of the Hogans' home, had no reporters, and only reprinted press releases.[4]In 2012,Quantcastranked it at 614 with 2.6 million U.S. visitors.[5]
As of August 2023,ScienceDailymainly has five sections, Health, Tech, Enviro, Society, and Quirky, the last of which includes the top news.[6]
References[edit]
- ^Timmer, John (September 23, 2009)."PR or science journalism? It's getting harder to tell".Ars Technica.
- ^Yong, Ed (January 11, 2010)."Adapting to the new ecosystem of science journalism".National Geographic Phenomena.Archived fromthe originalon January 23, 2013.
Meanwhile, sites like ScienceDaily, Eurekalert and PhysOrg provide the pretence of journalism while actually acting as staging grounds for PR.
- ^Choi, Charles Q. (January 24, 2012)."From the Writer s Desk: The Dangers of Press Releases".Assignment: Impossible(blog).Scientific American Blog Network.
In cases where the scientists are not contacted about their research, we have 'churnalism' — news released based largely if not totally on press release alone. We also have pres-release [sic] farms such as PhysOrg and ScienceDaily that seem to me to do little else but repackage press releases one can find on science press releases sites such as EurekAlert.
- ^abcStern, Gary M. (April 15, 2010)."Site Provides Latest Scientific Research for Free".Information Today. Archived fromthe originalon September 25, 2015.
- ^"Quantcast review of ScienceDaily website".Quantcast. Archived fromthe originalon September 8, 2012.
- ^"About This Site".ScienceDaily.RetrievedAugust 27,2023.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Alexa - ScienceDaily—ArchivedFebruary 26, 2020, at theWayback Machine
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