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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

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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 →

Environmental public radio reporting internship available for MSU students

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The Knight Center is supporting a paid summer internship at Interlochen Public Radio.
It is open to students or recent graduates associated with MSU. The ideal start and end dates for this position are June 1, 2017 to August 25, 2017. However, the dates are flexible according to the intern’s availability. The deadline to apply is January 27, 2017.
This is an extraordinary opportunity for any aspiring journalist interested in public media and the environment. The intern will learn to probe people for detailed information, connect ideas and facts into a larger context, and tell stories that help people understand the natural world.
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Deadline looms for grants supporting high school journalism and science collaborations

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To encourage collaboration between high school journalism and environmental science classes, Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism invite teachers to submit proposals for innovative class projects in which journalism students will report about field research by environmental science students.
The deadlline is Dec. 1, 2016
Our principal goals are:

to help young prospective journalists better understand and explain to the public how science is done
to help environmental science students learn to use the media to explain their work to the public.
to promote environmental and science journalism.
The Knight Center intends to award 1-year competitive grants of $2,000 to up to three high schools: $1,000 to the journalism program and $1,000 to the environmental science program for equipment, software or scholarships. There is a possibility of renewal for one or two more years.
In addition, the Knight Center will pair each school with a professional journalist to serve as a mentor to participating students and teachers.
Here are the details:

Your proposal must include a project description (750 words maximum), the names and contact information for a partnering journalism and environmental science teacher from the same high school; grade levels of participating classes; and the estimated number of students in the participating classes. A proposal form is attached.
Your projects must generate student-produced news or feature stories with visuals (photos and/ or graphics) for print, online, audio and/or video that your school will disseminate. The Knight Center will also disseminate these stories to the public through our website, and some stories may be posted on Great Lakes Echo (www.greatlakesecho.org), the center’s award-winning online regional environmental news service.
Grantees must comply with MSU nancial reporting procedures.
Grantees (students, teachers and professional mentors will be invited to a one-day workshop at MSU in Fall 2017.
Application deadline: December 1, 2016. Awards will be announced by January 31, 2017.
Projects should begin in February 2017 and be completed with a final report by the end of
December 2017. A progress report is required by June 15, 2017.
Read about the successful 2015-2016 grantees at http://j-school.jrn.msu.edu/
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