Knight Center Research Director Bruno Takahashi has published a chapter in the book “Culture, Politics and Climate Change: How Information Shapes Our Common Future” edited by Deserai Crow and Max Boykoff.
The chapter, “Re-examining the Media-Policy Link: Climate Change and Government Elites in Peru,” explores the ways in which policymakers in the Peruvian Congress use in their decisions the information the media produces about climate change.
The chapter was co-authored with Mark Meisner (International Environmental Communication Association), and is part of a collection of studies examining the role of culture, the media, politics, and policy making in the social construction of climate change.
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Knight Center graduate gets new environmental post
Aileo Weinmann
Knight Center graduate Aileo Weinmann (MA-’05) has taken a new job as a senior program director at Resource Media, a nonprofit public relations firm that develops and executes communications strategies for the environment and public health.
He is now based in Washington DC, focusing on energy, climate and water projects. He plans to move west with his wife and two young children to one of Resource Media’s western locations.
Weinmann is a former editor of the Knight Center’s EJ Magazine and the co-winner of the 2005 Rachel Carson Award for Outstanding Graduate Student.
Previously he was the director of communications for the National Wildlife Federation.
Upcoming courses offered at MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism
Here’s the academic schedule for Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism for the summer and fall of 2014 and spring of 2015.
Special notes:
- The courses are open to all majors provided permission is obtained from the instructor to waive the pre-requisites required of some courses.
- Some courses feed the Knight Center’s nonprofit environmental news service, Great Lakes Echo, providing students with professional experience and bylined clips.
- More than $10,000 a year in scholarships is reserved exclusively for undergraduate and graduate students in environmental journalism courses.
- You may take JRN 472/872 and JRN 473/873 more than once as the focus of each section is different.
- Enrollment is limited.
Course descriptions:
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Kittens, ice and story selection
David Poulson
By David Poulson
The local historical society recently hosted a panel discussion of the history of the Lansing (Michigan) State Journal.
That’s my local newspaper and I was particularly interested in the event as I had once worked there as an editor. What really caught my interest in a video of the discussion was a longtime State Journal staffer’s explanation of the publication’s increasing use of metrics to measure how news is consumed.
She described how a video screen in the newsroom reports and ranks in real time the top Continue reading