Brazil

Science communication is changing in Brazil. Newspapers are handling financial crunch by sacking science reporters, but public and private organisations are creating new positions to popularise science, says the Science Development Network.

"The Brazilian press is in crisis and the market for science journalism continues to decrease in our country,' says science writer Marcelo Leite.

"Few journalists are knowledgeable about science and the size of the editorial staff [for science] has been kept small,' says Ricardo Bonalume Neto, a reporter at Folha de S