Introduction (1 minute)

Our final section is dedicated to Citizen Science in the news. We have gathered here some interesting stories that we hope will enrich your ideas about how to integrate citizen science stories into wider media topics. Such ideas can link to different aspects that are meaningful and interesting to diverse audiences. The stories selected are in English and cover a variety of topics and formats used. At the end of the section, you will find a selection of media citizen stories in several languages. We hope this will kindle your interest and provide you with useful ideas! 

The examples that we will see include: using citizen science as a vehicle for a major campaign of a newspaper in Belgium, and a way to engage the audience and promote the social engagement of the paper. The second example is for an environmental story on the decline in butterfly population, and the role of citizen science as something that the reader can do about it. The third story comes from a science report programme which reports on a citizen science project as a way to link to the audience at home.

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