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Susanna Hornig Priest is associate professor of journalism and director of the master’s program in science journalism at Texas A&M University. She is author ofA Grain of Truth: The Media, The Public and Biotechnology (2001). She is associate editor of the journalPublic Understanding of Science and an active member of the editorial board ofScience Communication. Toby A. Ten Eyck is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center at Michigan State University. Dr. Ten Eyck spent nearly seven years as a radio broadcaster in Oregon, Florida, Wyoming, and Washington.
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Priest, S.H., Ten Eyck, T. News coverage of biotechnology debates. Soc 40, 29–34 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02712649
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