"The line between what information is meant to do and its use in persuasion is an interesting place for our scientists and journalists."In a complex landscape of social media and legacy news platforms, quality scientific journalism struggles to get heard. This problem has been exacerbated in the past year. How can we ensure that scientific discoveries and breakthroughs are not ‘’over-pushed’’ for the sake of sensationalism - or hype - especially when the findings are just preliminary?Join Public Scholar Sylvie Ouellette (B.A. Journalism, 95 and PhD candidate, Chemistry/Biochemistry) and David Secko (PhD, Chair and Professor, Journalism) as they embark on a discussion on how researchers can best serve the media, and vice-versa. Amélie Daoust-Boisvert moderates the conversation.