“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.” – Ernest Hemingway, May 1954 The summer hiatus is over and Atomic Reporters are back to work. The Iran nuclear negotiations are in overtime . The International Atomic Energy Agency’s 58th General Conference is set to begin Sept. 22. A list of key documents,… Read More Reporter Tools: “… The Art of Crap-Detection”
Speakers and participants in the Atomic Reporters/VCDNP workshop gather 24 June in Vienna before an image that was tweeted to protest the sentence of three AlJazeera reporters in Egypt. Nuclear science, the weapons it gave birth to and their challenge is not a compelling subject for journalists, many of whom lack the knowledge essential to reporting… Read More Reporting Nuclear News – Workshop for Journalists from the Middle East
On July 7 Atomic Reporters, with the support of Hungary’s IAEA mission, organized a full-day tour of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) . Eleven Vienna-based journalists representing news organizations from eight different countries took the four hour bus ride to the power plant. We were greeted in the visitors’ center by Geza Pekarik, technical… Read More Trip Report: Paks Nuclear Power Plant