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David Poulson is the senior associate director of Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.

Law article on communicating risk features Knight Center faculty

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An article on the ethics of communicating scientific uncertainty published in the February issue of Environmental Law Reporter features Knight Center Senior Associate Director David Poulson.
The article is based in part on his presentation at a National Science Foundation conference for scientists, lawyers and journalists and organized by the Environmental Law Institute in Washington D.C.

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Can autocomplete be a tool for reporting?

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By David Poulson
Important, great, cold, dangerous, low, polluted, big, clear, rough are reasonable adjectives for describing the Great Lakes.
But salty?
C’mon, they hold more than 20 percent of the world’s fresh surface water. Their nickname is the Sweetwater Seas.
And yet “salty” is the ninth option autocomplete provides when you do a Google search on “Why are the Great Lakes so.”
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Putting a news eye in the clear sky

By David Poulson
Students in MSU’s JRN 472 have been practicing shooting video and still images from a drone in WKAR’s Studio A.
The craft has a high definition camera that points outward and another camera that points directly below.

MSU students Juliana Moxley, left, and Carly Giles fly a drone in the journalism class called News eye in the clear sky. Image: Kevin Duffy

MSU students Juliana Moxley, left, and Carly Giles fly a drone in the journalism class called News eye in the clear sky. Image: Kevin Duffy


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