Seeking opinions on: The Conversation
Seeking opinions on: The Conversation
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
What do you know about The Conversation? At first blush it seems like a great space similar to Phys.org but less specialized.
From https://theconversation.com/us/who-we-are:
We publish trustworthy and informative articles written by academic experts for the general public and edited by our team of journalists.
On this website (and through distribution of our articles to thousands of news outlets worldwide), you’ll find explanatory journalism on the events, discoveries and issues that matter today. Our articles share researchers’ expertise in policy, science, health, economics, education, history, ethics and most every subject studied in colleges and universities. Some articles offer practical advice grounded in research, while others simply provide authoritative answers to questions that sparked our curiosity.
The Conversation U.S. is part of a global group of news organizations founded in Australia in 2011 by Andrew Jaspan, a former newspaper editor who wanted to encourage academics to engage with the public, and Jack Rejtman. Jaspan led the U.S. launch in October 2014. Our main newsroom is in Boston, with editors working remotely in cities across the country.
There are also editions in Africa, Australia, Canada, France, Indonesia, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom.
It does seem very interesting and I've bookmarked it for future perusal.
My one qualm doesn't seem like it would affect the topics The Conversation covers, but as professional staff in higher education for 15 years, I have a visceral reaction when researchers and academics are put on a pedestal. It makes sense, though, when I look at the list of founding partners.
After reading a bit about it I came away feeling skeptical. I don't understand why, if they kicked Jaspan out of the main network with a vote of no confidence, they let him head up the US wing? Maybe its just the US portion Im feeling worried about
Can you give more context? Who is Jaspan?
Sure, pretty much all my info came from this wikipedia entry and its linked sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation_(website)
It says Andrew Jaspan was originally one of the founders, but then was forced to resign
It also says he was in charge of the US portion and it does seem he wrote the announcement
However maybe he has since been replaced?