Would it be fun to become a science correspondent?

Do you expect to earn a living at this?

@stanleybmanly No.

You asked two questions.

The first, yes, it would be a lot of fun to be a science correspondent. If you wrote well and clearly to explain complex concepts to a layman, you would have fun and go to a lot of interesting things.

Where one can start is like most things: both start working in a way to learn more, and work on a formal education to polish skills on writing well and also on critical thinking. You’d also need some classes in a variety of sciences.

Read Scientific American.

It depends on how much fun you make it. You can do the stuffy academic route, the Mythbusters “blowing shit up to make science cool!” route, or somewhere in between. However, whether you’re doing dry commentary or bouncing around acting zany, you MUST understand the science you are dealing with. That is actually more important for the latter group as writing a column that isn’t well-received is far less devastating than getting set on fire before being crushed by an engine block falling from where your poorly-placed, too-big block of C4 launched it. Colin Furze may look like just a coked-up pyromaniac, but a lot of academic thought went into his antics, like the jet-powered go-kart or the hoverbike. Yes, he built his own hoverbike

You don’t have to know as much about the science as the people you are covering, but whatever time and learning you save by having just enough science knowledge to get by will be taken up by extra English classes like learning how to write well and some Journalism courses as well (not sure if those are English or Social Sciences…). But no matter how well you write, you will need to take a few science classes, some of which may require a math class or three. It takes a good education to be a good science correspondent.

First you have to know science. Really, really, REALLY, REALLY know science.

Thanks. @all I’m still interested. I am saving for high school chemistry and physics classes I have lots of books to read In the meantime.