The Future Of Science Reporting, Live In San Francisco
On Tuesday, April 29, join Ira Flatow in conversation with journalists to discuss the role of science writing in our current cultural climate.
Science Friday and the Future of Science Reporting
- When: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 6:00pm. Doors open at 5:15
- Where: The Commonwealth Club – 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco CA 94105
- Tickets: In-person and online-only tickets available!
Radio and TV journalist Ira Flatow produced his first science stories back in 1970 during the inaugural Earth Day. Since then, he has worked for Emmy Award-winning science programs and covered science for a number of high-profile news organizations, and has hosted Science Friday for more than three decades.
In his career, Flatow has interviewed countless scientists, journalists and other experts about the most exciting developments in science. Now we’re coming to San Francisco, where Flatow will be in conversation with local journalists to speak about the role of science writing in the current cultural climate.
SPECIAL GUESTS:
- Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. Most recently, as a science journalist, they are the author of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, about the history of psychological warfare, from Sun Tzu to Benjamin Franklin and beyond. They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Scientific American, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and Technology Review, among others. They are the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, and have contributed to the public radio shows Science Friday, On the Media, KQED Forum, and Here and Now.
- Ezra David Romero is a climate reporter for KQED News. He covers the absence and excess of water in the Bay Area — think sea level rise, flooding and drought. For 12 years he’s covered how warming temperatures are altering the lives of Californians. He’s reported on farmers worried their pistachio trees aren’t getting enough sleep, families desperate for water, scientists studying dying giant sequoias, and alongside firefighters containing wildfires. His work has appeared on local stations across California and nationally on public radio shows like Morning Edition, Here and Now, All Things Considered and Science Friday.
- Naveena Sadasivam is a writer and editor at Grist covering the oil and gas industry and climate change. She previously worked at the Texas Observer, Inside Climate News, and ProPublica and is based in Oakland, California.
- Ira Flatow is an award winning science correspondent, TV journalist, and the host of Science Friday, heard on public radio stations across the country and distributed by WNYC Studios. He brings radio and podcast listeners worldwide a lively, informative discussion on science, technology, health, space, the environment and more. Flatow describes his work as the challenge “to make science and technology a topic for discussion around the dinner table.”
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About Diana Plasker
Diana Plasker is the Senior Manager of Experiences at Science Friday, where she creates live events and partnerships to delight and engage audiences in the world of science.