By Eric Freedman
Americans’ trust in the media remains at a record low, a new Gallup poll reports, with only 31% of those surveyed expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the press.
That is a lower confidence rate for the press than for Congress, federal courts and respondents’ own state and local government.
The high point in trust in the media came in the 1970s at 68% to 72% of those polled, according to Gallup.
Student reporters created three short documentaries during study abroad.
Anna Barnes and Shealyn Paulis
To encourage collaboration between high school journalism and environmental science classes, we invite teachers to submit proposals for innovative class projects in which journalism students will report about field research by environmental science students. Our principal goals are:
The Knight Center intends to award 1-year grants of $2,000 to up to 3 high schools: $1,000 to the journalism program and $1,000 to the environmental science program for equipment, software or scholarships. In addition, the Knight Center will pair each school with a professional journalist to serve as a mentor to participating students and teachers.
Here are the details:
Send along a Grant Application Cover Sheet with the following information:
Submit by November 15 to Barb Miller at mille384@msu.edu
If you have questions, email Eric Freedman at freedma5@msu.edu
By Clara Lincolnhol
Climate of Contempt cover. Image: Columbia University Press
“Be curious, not judgemental.” This quote from the popular comedy-drama “Ted Lasso” is how a professor of energy law recommends we approach conversations about energy policy and politics.
“We can be a force that fights against demonization and the nastiness online and instead ask questions to people who introduce an idea that’s different or contradicts what we believe,” said David Spence, a professor of energy law at the University of Texas Austin and author of “Climate of Contempt.”
Spence was at the MSU School of Journalism where he spoke in an environmental journalism class and at a public seminar sponsored by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.