The closure of Research Professional News marks the end of an era for research policy journalism
A personal, reflective piece mourning the closure of Research Professional News (formerly Research Fortnight), an independent UK publication covering research policy and funding. The author recounts their journey from journalism school (where trade press was overlooked) to discovering the value of specialist publications, and reflects on the broader decline of trade journalism and the loss of specialized reporting on research policy.
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I was saddened to discover yesterday that Research Professional News, an independent publication that reports on research policy and funding in the UK is to close down.
When I studied journalism at Polytechnic of Central London we barely discussed trade press and all of us had our sights on jobs in national news – then a thriving business employing many journalists.
But soon after college I attended a glitzy press awards ceremony where several of the winners were specialist magazines I had never heard of.
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