These guidelines are dedicated to generalist journalists who are not specialised inscience topics but can be asked, more or less frequently, to deal with news thatinvolve scientific information as well as ethical and social implications of newresearch methodologies or results.These guidelines aims at helping journalists to understand and tackle complex issues emergingaround the communication of science and technology, especially in relation tocrises, such as, climate change, soil and water related emergencies, pandemics, andAI and its impact on society. Moreover, complex issues may come undercircumstances of polycrisis, including economic and geopolitical. All this happeningconcomitantly with a voracious pace of misinformation, disinformation and fakenews spreading.