Civic Science Media: Reimagining How We Communicate Science
"J.D. Allen has reported for public radio stations across the Northeast, investigating the climate crisis, health care, and small businesses, and real estate and land use for community newspapers on Long Island. Allen is a journalism and science communication lecturer at Stony Brook University and co-host of “Higher Ground,” a climate podcast from WSHU Public Radio, with Sabrina Garone. As an accredited trainer with the Solutions Journalism Network, he helps newsrooms and classrooms cover responses to social problems. Allen was a 2022 award winner of the National Academies’ Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications. We asked J.D. about the civic science media framework he uses to guide his work, his nuclear energy broadcast initiative, and how incorporating community engagement and solutions-focused journalism improves science storytelling."