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The performance of science journalists in the press
This study aims to evaluate the performance of science journalists in the press using quantitative content analysis. Accordingly, the contents on science and technology page of four newspapers of Jam-e-Jam, Keyhan, Khorasan, and Afarinesh were investigated. The study results show that science and technology materials in the newspaper are rarely highlighted. These are mainly extracted from other sources and little compilation occurs in this area. Most of the content on these pages is related to health and IT technology. Science policies and science controversies, in accordance with the principles of development journalism, have been much neglected on social scale and regarding knowledge production. In these pages, the dominant styles of science writing like narrative style reporting, which is based on the textbook of the World Federation of Science Journalists, has failed to be used.