Michigan State University J-School graduate Andrew Atwal (BA-2012) recently landed a job reporting on oil markets for the Oil Price Information Service.
The service provides in-depth reporting on petroleum pricing and news. The service, which began covering the petroleum industry in 1977, has clients that include the top 200 oil companies, thousands of distributors, traders and government and commercial buyers of petroleum products.
Atwal says the position is heavy on database reporting and that the Knight Center environmental reporting class he took at MSU will serve him well in his new job
Since graduating from MSU in 2012, Atwal’s worked as reporter for a small daily newspaper in South Dakota, as well as an assistant editor for a newspaper in Atlantic City, N.J.
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Exploring the impact of message framing on environmental capacity building
Knight Center doctoral students Ran Duan and Anthony Van Witsen present research at MSU’s Environmental Science and Policy Program’s symposium.
Ran Duan and Anthony Van Witsen are studying how the related loss/gain frames and local/distant frames may influence people’s perceptions of climate change issues.
The work could help inform support for environmental capacity building. The pair of Knight Center doctoral students want to investigate how individual perceptions contribute to the capacity of government to tackle climate change.
At a recent MSU Environmental Science and Policy Program poster presentation, Adam Zwickle, who is an assistant professor in School of Criminal Justice, suggested that the researchers consider “avoiding loss” as a frame. Jinhua Zhao, the director of the ESPP program, suggested looking at economic gaming which is a form of experimental research on how people make economic choices.
The researchers say such suggestions may help them broadly justify how environmental awareness contributes to environmental capacity building.
Posters analyzed for ability to communicate sustainability messages
Knight Center student Carie Cunningham recently presented an analysis of posters and flyers promoting sustainability.
Knight Center student Carie Cunningham recently presented a content analysis of several Michigan State University communications about sustainable practices.
She presented an analysis of flyers and posters at the Environmental Science and Policy Program’s symposium on environmental risk and decision making. The symposium facilitates engagement and exchange of ideas in sustainability, risk, and communication among several disciplines.
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Knight Center director, colleague present study on environmental journalism in Kyrgyzstan
The study examined Kyrgyzstan’s most popular Russian-language online news site is 24.kg.
By Eric Freedman
There’s a dramatic disconnect between the environmental topics covered by two major news organizations and Kyrgyzstan and the issues that environmental nongovernmental organizations- – eco-NGOs – in the country feel are most important.
In addition, those eco-NGOs do a poor job reaching out to the media for coverage of their activities and those underreported environmental issues, meaning they have little influence on building the public policy agenda for the media, the public or government.
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