Knight Center director Eric Freedman and senior associate director Dave Poulson represented MSU at the recent annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Fort Collins, Colorado. At the conference Poulson finished his second three-year term as the academic representative on the SEJ’s board of directors.
The MSU team included, in alphabetical order:
- Alaska fisheries and environmental reporter Margie Bauman, a Journalism School alum who visits the Knight Center each fall to speak to our classes and network with our EJ students.
- Environmental Health News senior editor Brian Bienkowski, a Knight Center master’s alum.
- Detroit Public TV news director Natasha Blakely, a former Great Lakes Echo staff writer,
- EJ master’s student Andrew Blok, a staff writer for Great Lakes Echo.
- Audubon magazine associate editor Andy McGlashen, a Knight Center master’s alum.
The SEJ conference, “Headwaters to the Plains: Where Rivers, and Politics, Change Directions,” took place October 9-13 at Colorado State University.