Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series of tips gleaned from the most recent annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
By Vladislava Sukhanovskaya
Journalists and meteorologists met at this year’s Society of Environmental Journalists conference to explore how to connect extreme weather and climate change.
Here are some tips and useful resources provided by a panel at the organization’s annual conference in Boise, Idaho.
The MSU J-School has launched an initiative to diversify journalists who report on the environment.
It offers significant scholarships, training and internships that benefit emerging and diverse student journalists in any field. Continue reading
MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism ran a science communication class during fall 2022 for 17 students from diverse science and communication fields.
The class produced compelling stories from dry studies, created narratives to accompany animated datasets, produced a shadow puppet show about invasive species, planned a museum exhibit of the future, created science TikToks and used humor to explain science.
One produced and performed a song with the rest of the class backing him. Another produced this video of what the rest of the class did.
By David Poulson
Readers of Great Lakes Echo will soon benefit from a new tool to share climate change stories with a nationwide network of nearly two dozen regional news organizations.
The Michigan State University news service run by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism is part of a network of regional journalists reporting on climate change that is organized by the Local Media Association.
That group announced Sept. 22 a $200,000 award from the Google News Initiative to partner with Distributed Media Lab (DML) to develop story-sharing technology for the climate reporting initiative.