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Knight Center team hits the Society of Environmental Journalists conference

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A delegation of Knight Center faculty and students participated in the 2017 annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Pittsburgh.

Knight Center director Eric Freedman and sernior associate director Dave Poulson participate in a panel

Knight Center director Eric Freedman and sernior associate director Dave Poulson participate in a panel Photo credit: Mary Hoff


Knight Center director Eric Freedman and senior associate director Dave Poulson participate
in a panel, “How to Go from Prof(essional) to Prof(essor),” about making a successful transition from full-time professional journalist to full time college teaching.
Such a transition and the change in workplace cultures can be difficult, but colleges offer little guidance or mentoring for new faculty arriving from the profession. Freedman, Poulson and fellow panelists Randy Loftis of the University of North Texas, Kate Sheppard of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sara Shipley Hiles of the University of Missouri drew on their own experiences to offer guidance and suggest best practices.
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Visiting scientist, Ken Takahashi, speaks to Knight Center students

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BY STEVEN MAIER

Ken Takahashi, scientist at the Instituto Geofisico del Peru

Ken Takahashi, scientist at the Instituto Geofisico del Peru


Ken Takahashi, a research scientist at the Instituto Geofisico del Peru in Lima, visited the Knight Center in the midst of his temporary appointment with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
Takahashi is a leading scientist in the study of the domestic effects of El Niño in Peru. He often plays a high-stakes role in communicating the likelihood of floods and drought that often accompany the formation of El Niño in the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading →

Research director wins top faculty paper award

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Bruno Takahashi

Bruno Takahashi


Knight Center research director Bruno Takahashi won the top faculty paper award in the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference.
The paper titled “Students’ experiences in an environmental journalism master’s program: An application of knowledge-based journalism principles,” was co-authored with doctoral student Perry Parks.
 
Perry ParksThe paper presents a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with graduates from the master’s program in journalism at MSU. The study highlights the challenges faced by journalism students interested in environmental reporting. A main challenges is the perceived gap between communication theory, statistics and research methods, and the practice of journalism.
The paper will be presented at the AEJMC conference in Chicago, August 9 to the 12, 2017.

Knight Center faculty, alumni publish ethanol headline study

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Research Director Bruno Takahashi and former Knight Center graduate students Carol Terracina-Hartman and Katie Amann have published a new study titled “Policy, economic themes dominate ethanol headlines” in Newspaper Research Journal.
The study examines issue attributes, themes, tone and sources in U.S. elite newspaper headlines between 1987 and 2011. The results show a dominance of policy and economic themes and the prevalence of ethanol industry representatives over government sources.
The study was co-authored with Mark Meisner, executive director of the International Environmental Communication Association.