MEDICC Rev. 2020 Jul;22(3):12-15. doi: 10.37757/MR2020.V22.N3.4.
Science journalism was little known in Cuba when Iramis Alonso wrote her the-sis on the specialized fi eld in 1990. That year, journalism degree from the Uni-versity of Havana in hand, she set off to Cuba's eastern countryside to complete two years of social service reporting for local, regional and national print media. Living in the mountains of Holguín, a typical day for the cub reporter took her to caves, forests and fi elds for stories on the intersection of science, culture and the environment. Alonso credits this formative experience with igniting her passion for investigative and sci-ence journalism, setting her on a unique career path as a journalist and editor specializing in the sciences writ large: climate change, astronomy, mathemat-ics and other hard sciences, engineer-ing, information technologies and social sciences, among others.
当伊拉米斯·阿隆索 (Iramis Alonso) 于 1990 年撰写该专业论文时，古巴的科学新闻业鲜为人知。那一年，她从哈瓦那大学获得新闻学学位后，前往古巴东部农村地区，为当地、地区和国家平面媒体完成了两年的社会服务报道。这位古巴记者在奥尔金山区生活，典型的一天是前往洞穴、森林和田野，报道科学、文化和环境交汇的故事。阿隆索将这段形成性的经历归功于点燃了她对调查性和科学新闻的热情，使她走上了一条独特的职业道路，成为一名记者和编辑，专门从事广泛的科学领域：气候变化、天文学、数学和其他硬科学、工程、信息技术和社会科学等。
