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Dark Reading has named a new editor-in-chief, succeeding the three founding editors who had led the cybersecurity publication since its launch 20 years ago. The incoming editor, a longtime contributor since 2012 who first began reading the site in 2007, will now oversee a team of staff writers covering security research, CISOs, and incident responders.
PR professionals are now monitoring how often journalists and outlets are cited by AI systems like chatbots when answering user questions, regardless of whether the coverage is positive or negative. The practice treats frequent AI citation as a new measure of a reporter's influence that brands feel compelled to notice.
A science journalist argues that confusing, contradictory health headlines—like claims that coffee or red wine are alternately good and bad—often stem from treating individual studies as standalone verdicts rather than weighing them against the broader body of evidence. The piece cites the FDA's September 2025 warning linking acetaminophen in pregnancy to autism, a claim later undercut by a comprehensive review finding no clear link, as an example of cherry-picked science causing needless alarm. It also notes that roughly 7 million scholarly articles were published in 2025, making it increasingly hard to separate rigorous findings from sloppy or contradictory ones.
A books-in-brief roundup covers four forthcoming 2026 titles: Siri Carpenter's edited collection on science journalism craft, David Helvarg's book on the ecological importance of cold-water kelp forests, Kit Chapman's history of alchemy's role in founding chemistry, and Roberta Kwok's 'Lost in Curiosity.' Each entry summarizes the book's core argument and notable details, such as kelp forests producing a fifth of the world's oxygen and the 1901 exchange between Frederick Soddy and Ernest Rutherford over radioactive transmutation.
Gizmodo has released its annual science awards, recognizing what its editors consider the year's most significant discoveries, breakthroughs, and scientific stories. The list spans multiple fields of research and highlights work the publication believes had outsized impact in 2026.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has released a new work examining how governments and tech-driven bureaucracies are increasingly automating public administration, raising questions about accountability. The book, titled around the concept of an 'artificial state,' traces how digital systems have reshaped the mechanics of governance over recent decades.