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Injecting international content into environmental journalism courses

Screen Shot 2015-08-21 at 2.56.27 PMIt’s possible to integrate international content into a variety of journalism courses, including environmental journalism, Knight Center director Eric Freedman said on a panel at the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication annual conference in San Francisco.
Drawing from the experience of MSU’s JRN 472/JRN 872 Environmental Reporting course, he explained how Knight Center students report about issues and events that cross the U.S.-Canadian border in the Great Lakes region. To illustrate, he pointed to four student-produced stories that appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
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Takahashi named Sustainability Fellow

Bruno Takahashi

Bruno Takahashi


Knight Center Research Director Bruno Takahashi has been named one of four 2015 Sustainability Fellows at Michigan State University.
The program funds research on environmental responsibility and sustainability at MSU to better inform decision makers how to improve it.
Takahashi is part of a team that will survey undergraduate students on their knowledge of sustainability and related behaviors and attitudes toward environmental responsibility.
Other members of the team include John Besley, associate professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, and Adam Zwickle, assistant professor in the Environmental Science and Policy Program and the School of Criminal Justice in the College of Social Science.
Also named as a Sustainability Fellow is Sina Jahangiri Mamouri, a doctoral student in MSU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering who will explore the potential for solar water heaters on campus.