What I Do Skips a Week
What to read instead and what to watch for
While there are three or four people who are working on their responses to the WID questions, as many who have committed to it but said that I should touch base in a month or so when they have more time, and invitations out to twice that, we have reached a gap in the WID editorial calendar.
Oops.
But seriously, I’m sorry for missing a beat.
In the meantime, now’s a great time to catch up on any of the previous (and first) five issues of What I Do:
If you have any suggestions for people to feature in What I Do, please let me know and I’ll see if I can get them. I’m looking for people in the crime content space, specifically for journalists, academics, advocates, or others who are working on quality, ethical crime-related content, whether they’re working in online outlets, newsletters, social media, podcasts, YouTube, print, television, radio, or whatever else.
What I Do will return next week or the week after. Hopefully next week!
And now for something completely different
Something else that’s in the works is Navigating the Academic Literature of Crime (final name pending), a six-part, subscriber-only series aimed at journalists, advocates, and other people in the crime content space who don’t have the background that makes it easier to navigate the available body of research literature.
No, Google’s not enough.
The new series won’t approximate a degree, but it’ll get you going.
I’ll publish part 1 as a free preview in the coming days (or early next week at the latest). Here are the working titles for each part:
Understanding the basic parts of scientific literature
Crafting a research question
Searching the literature
Selecting journal articles like a science journalist
Reading a journal article like a grad student
Monitoring new research like me
I hope you’ll check them out.