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Research
Comment/Analysis
Research
Questions
Explanation
How to find stories for
Good Conversation stories
Lists
- Explanation of topic in the news
- Comment or analysis of events in the news
- New or recent research
- Answer to an interesting question
- Broad topic with news-peg or list format
Explanation
Example
Things we like
I have interviews from Paris, Berlin and Barcelona where I interviewed digital activists in the last six months. There is a quieter digital activism of building platforms for civic purposes and cultural citizenship. Tech/artists involved in projects for digital inclusion against surveillance etc, which does not involve cyberattacks a la anonymous or just using social media to mobilise protests but builds community and is for public use as digital commons.
- New
- Unusual
- Fun
- Surprising
- Universal
- Dramatic
- Explainers
- Questions
- Lists
- Stories
How a new wave of digital activists is changing society
- Timely
Example
One-line test
Doomsday scenarios surrounding a robot apocalypse abound in popular science fiction, from Battlestar Galactica to Terminator. But working with machine intelligence in the lab is a methodical practise that can uncover innovative designs that can help humanity and enable us to learn how our own intelligence came about. My recent work has included designing a ‘mother’ robot that can manufacture its own ‘children’ without human intervention. In the process it uses principles from nature, including natural selection, to produce incrementally superior generations that improve in performance on a specific task.
- You know you've got a good story if you can summarise it in one sentence
- To do this you need to work out what the right angle is
- Identify the most important or interesting thing to your readers
We want to hear about:
How we built a robot that can evolve - and why it won't take over the world
How to write for us
- Respond to expert request
- Follow the news
- Tell us about your latest research
- Pitch an idea
- Your opinion on something you read or heard in the news, as soon as possible
- New research from you or others
- Ideas for 'big picture' pieces or analysis
- Important research or newsworthy events that are NOT being talked about
- New angles or approaches to stories