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Fulltime multi-media environmental reporting job in New Orleans

The NOLA Media Group, which includes the Times Picayune in New Orleans, is advertising for a multi-media environmental reporter.
The posting says, “Join a multimedia environmental reporting team dedicated to covering Louisiana’s disappearing coastline and the efforts of local, state and national agencies to slow the erosion and manage its impact on communities, the ecosystem and the economy.”
And, “If you have a passion for the environment, the drive to break news, the ambition to develop enterprise journalism, the willingness to engage readers and create communities around your coverage, and the innovative spirit to inform readers in exciting new ways, then you can contribute to the award-winning news team of NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.”
Details and application instructions here.

Detroit Public Television seeks chief for Great Lakes Bureau

Detroit Public Television is looking for a Great Lakes Bureau chief. Here is part of the job description:
“Through a multi-year grant from the Erb Family Foundation, Detroit Public Television’s Great Lakes Bureau (GLB) provides daily content to the Great Lakes Now website and social media portals from partner organizations as well as original content produced by DPTV. The GLB Chief will also oversee content curation, and live streaming coverage of important Great Lakes-related content and develop relationships with other environmental journalists, editors, scholars, researchers and academics. The position will be the project manager and will lead on all content and deliverables related to the bureau, its partners, and its mission across a variety of platforms – on-air, online, and through social media.”
More here: http://www.dptv.org/about/careers/great-lakes-bureau-chief/

Saint Petersburg State University offers Popular Science Journalism master’s program

 

Julia Balashova

Julia Balashova


Professor Julia Balashova heads the master’s program in popular science journalism at St. Petersburg State University in Russia. She is affiliated with the Knight Center as a Fulbright Scholar doing research at MSU this academic year.
 
By Julia Balashova
Schools of journalism in Russia offer a variety of specialized master’s programs. For example, those at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Saint Petersburg State University include International Journalism, Political Journalism, Business Journalism and Sports Journalism. Several years ago, we started a new master’s degree program called Popular Science Journalism, and it is the only such specialization in Russia.
Training science journalists is necessary for the country, society, science and the media themselves. Global media markets demand science journalists. However, until recently, Russian universities were not engaged in preparation of science journalists. The contemporary trend, named “science with and for society,” means establishing communication between separate areas of the elite scientific and societal spheres.  Continue reading

Visiting Fulbright researcher writes about scientific enlightenment in Russia

logo st petersburg stateProfessor Julia Balashova of St. Petersburg State University has just published an article about the traditions of scientific enlightenment in Russia.
She is affiliated with the Knight Center as a Fulbright Scholar doing research at MSU this academic year.
Balashova is a professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where she heads the master’s program in popular science journalism.
Her article in the International Journal of Environmental & Science Education examines scientific enlightenment at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a period characterized by significant scientific and sociopolitical changes.
At the time, the level of education in Russia was extremely low, and good education was accessible only to the upper class, according to the study, “The Scientific Enlightenment System in Russia in the Early Twentieth Century as a Model for Popularizing Science.”
Therefore, a program for popularizing science was launched. The main means of popularization of science included publication of popular-science periodicals and giving universities considerable autonomy. During the subsequent Soviet period, popularization of science continued, but included a government drive to eliminate illiteracy in light of Marxism-Leninism