I do both science journalism and science communications consulting. To avoid conflicts of interest, I follow the following ground rules:

• I will not write in a journalistic capacity about my consulting clients, or their direct competitors.
• I will not write in a journalistic capacity about the technology my clients are investing in, except in extremely general terms. (For example, most businesses right now are investing in AI. I’ll still write about AI, but not about any particular AI technologies my clients are pursuing.)
• I will more generally maintain a distinction between areas I cover journalistically and areas where I consult. Right now, this means I avoid writing in a journalistic capacity about:
  • Health/biomedical topics
  • Neuroscience
  • Advanced sensors for medical applications

These rules may be updated in future, if I discover new conflict of interest risks. If they are, I will update this page.