You can’t beat this for a Michigan State University J-School skills class: Students in JRN 472 and JRN 872 this fall will learn to shoot video from an unmanned aircraft that they fly.
That’s part of the fall environmental journalism class where students will also learn to turn satellite images into news stories and experiment with other unusual tools for reporting on the environment. They’ll do all that fun stuff to produce professional quality stories for the J-School’s award-winning Great Lakes Echo.
You don’t have to be part of the environmental journalism program to take this class. You don’t even have to be a science nerd. The pre-requisite is JRN 200 or equivalent or special waiver from the instructor. What you really need is a sense of adventure and a desire to push the journalistic frontier.
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Environmental journalism students receive honors
Four students affiliated with Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism were recognized for outstanding work in environmental reporting.
The students are among those who received awards April 21 at the MSU School of Journalism’s annual convocation at the Kellogg Conference Center on campus. They include:
- Jenny Kalish, who received the Edward J. Meeman Award recognizing outstanding work by an undergraduate student and who now works at Waste & Recycling News.
- Matt Hall, a J-School graduate student, who was recognized with a Michael A. and Sandra S. Clark Scholarship for Environmental Journalism.
- Heather Hartmann, an undergraduate J-School student, also awarded a Michael A. and Sandra S. Clark Scholarship for Environmental Journalism.
- Celeste Bott, an undergraduate J-School student, who was honored with the Donald F. and Katherine K. Dahlstrom scholarship for outstanding environmental reporting by a Capital News Service reporter.
Knight Center collaborates with WKAR to produce environmental content for public radio
The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism has partnered with WKAR to support environmental news and information on the station’s new Current State public affairs program.
Every Tuesday morning the station will broadcast an interview relevant to the environment of the Great Lakes region. In addition, the station will report occasional environmental feature stories.
The programming is produced by J-School graduate Emanuele Berry who had worked at the Knight Center’s Great Lakes Echo environmental news service prior to graduation.
A WKAR interview with Knight Center Associate Director David Poulson discussing the collaboration is here.
Knight Center students win regional reporting awards
Knight Center students and projects won five Mark of Excellence awards at the Society of Professional Journalists Region 4 spring conference.
The students won awards for a diverse set of projects. The Knight Center’s investigative environmental reporting class produced a series of investigative reports on innovative brownfield developments that took third place in online in-depth reporting. Knight Center graduate assistants took first place in online opinion and commentary with an experiment in online reader engagement that asked visitors to place invasive species and “tournament brackets.”
Knight Center winners include:
Online in-depth reporting
3rd place: E. Pacheco B. McGaughey A. O’Dell, C. Morra, J. Spiro and
B. Bienkowski
Online opinion and commentary
1st place: Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason for Great Lakes Smackdown
Best independent online student publication
2nd place: Great Lakes Echo
Radio news reporting
3rd place: Alice Rossignol
Non-fiction magazine article
3rd place: Brian Bienkowski