Journalists think in discrete stories. [...] In science, the continued journey toward greater knowledge is an unending quest.

Matt Thompson (What journalists can learn from
scientists and the scientific method, Poynter)

Science places much more of an emphasis on processes. Journalism places much more of an emphasis on outcomes. To journalists, the process of scientific discovery is tortuously incremental. We want to push all of those double-blind, randomized, peer-reviewed, clinical bits out of the way and get straight to the delicious creme filling [...].

Matt Thompson (What journalists can learn from
scientists and the scientific method, Poynter)