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Step 3: Distribution (External)

It is crucial that scientists are able to communicate their science. These tools and instructions were used by FLEET researchers to develop and distribute stories about new papers. We see this as a three step process:

Send a copy to the following:

Use your ‘teaser’ paragraph (see hints and tricks) to pitch the article to each, with tweaks for some of the platforms (eg, if pitching to a materials platform I might emphasise materials aspects of the study). Then give them a URL pointing to the story, to make it as easy as possible for them to publish.

Don’t forget your home university comms team: Make sure you alert your home uni communications team first. Ask them if they’d like to use the story on their news page, and offer to help customise the story for them. Even if they don’t want to do that, you can ask them to help you share on social media. See our list of contact addresses at each FLEET node.

If it’s ARC funded, tell the ARC: Email the article to ARC-Communications@arc.gov.au; ARC-Information@arc.gov.au with “suggested news for Research Highlights”. (Even if they don’t publish it, it’s helpful for them to know what you are doing.)

All of these outlets are listed because FLEET had some success pitching science stories to them.

Relatively ‘hard-science’ research blogs

Send a pitch to each of these, with Subject [Story name] – suggested news story.

  • Space Daily, Energy Daily or TerraDaily SpaceDaily.com simon@spacedaily.com
Materials stories (emphasise materials in snippet)
More specific…
Partners

It’s always good to let your research partners know you are doing a story, even if they don’t have capacity to carry the story themselves.

Physics…
Less ‘hard’ sci – an application or nice gimmick is handy…
  • SciDev feedback@scidev.net
  • Scienceblog https://scienceblog.com/contact/ incl @ScienceBlogTwit
  • My Science submit online at https://www.myscience.org/contact
  • IFLScience http://www.iflscience.com/submit-news
Engineering association stories…
  • The Engineer https://www.theengineer.co.uk/contact-us/
  • IEEE Note you need to be a member of the IEEE for them to publish. They will be seeking original stories.
    • IEEE Computer Society news content@computer.org
    • Spectrum spectrum@ieee.org (also electronics)
    • NSW contact ‘Anthony William Sloman’ bill.sloman@ieee.org
    • Vic contact Priya Rani priya.rani@ieee.org, Enn Vinnal e.vinnal@gmail.com
  • Engineering Australia magazine ‘create’ You need to be a member of EA: https://www.createdigital.org.au/contact-us/
Computing/IT news

Worth a crack if you can tweak your pitch towards a non-science crowd interested in future computing

Electronics…

If you can tweak your pitch towards future electronics

Semiconductors…

Semiconductor industry outlets. Go easy on the hard science…

Popsci (worth a crack if interesting)