MSU J-School alum Margie Bauman. Image: Stacy Hoxsey
The Knight Center and its news service, Great Lakes Echo, got a mention in the Cordova (Alaska) Times, thanks to an alum of Michigan State University’s School of Journalism.
Margaret Bauman (BA ’64) mentioned both in her story about a bacterial disease that afflicts fish. Bauman, who covers fisheries for the Prince Williams Sound publication, got the idea for the story from an Echo report on the same disease in the Great Lakes basin.
That story was reported by Knight Center Director Eric Freedman. While Bauman’s story had the Alaskan spin on the disease, it also mentioned some of the information Freedman reported regarding its presence in the Great Lakes Basin. She credited the story and the center.
Bauman had visited the Knight Center last year and continues to stay in touch with faculty and students – and apparently reads Great Lakes Echo.
In addition to working for the Cordova Times, she is also the Alaska bureau chief for Fisherman’s News in Seattle.