The application deadline for scholarships from the MSU School of Journalism is Jan. 30.
Many of the scholarships target students interested in environmental reporting. You can find a list of the scholarships and how to apply online here.
The scholarships are awarded spring semester for use the following summer or fall. Undergraduate and graduate students who will not graduate in the spring are eligible.
Category Archives: Masters
Knight Center grad gets promotion
Knight Center graduate Andy McGlashen (MA ’09) in June became communications director for the Michigan Environmental Council, a nonprofit organization that represents 70 environmental, health and social justice groups at the state Capitol.
McGlashen joined MEC in 2010 and previously was development and communications associate. He replaces Hugh McDiarmid, Jr., who accepted a position with the International Joint Commission.
A former correspondent for MSU’s Capital News Service, McGlashen was the 2009 recipient of the Knight Center’s Rachel Carson Award for Outstanding Graduate Student. His reporting has appeared in newspapers around the state, along with Midwest Energy News, The Daily Climate, Environmental Health News, Great Lakes Echo and other outlets. He also has covered health and medicine for MSU’s media relations office.
McGlashen even has shown some Great Lakes love on national television.
He can occasionally be found playing guitar around Lansing with Uncle Alice and the Gals, a fledgling old-time and bluegrass band that includes Knight Center graduates Alice Rossignol (banjo) and Brian Bienkowski (mandolin), and featured fellow alumnus Jeff Brooks Gillies on dobro before he moved to Colorado.
Knight Center alum launches two major productions
Knight Center alum Andrew Norman went full-time today as the executive director of Hear Nebraska, a nonprofit online music news community that he planned as his masters project before graduating from MSU in 2010.
Andrew and his wife, Angie, launched Hear Nebraska that same year. It is a nonprofit organization that cultivates Nebraska’s vibrant, fertile music and arts community. It provides resources and a voice for musicians and members of Nebraska’s creative class and the people and businesses that support them.
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Echo hits milestone, looks for help with improvements
By David Poulson
It’s a little more than five years since the Knight Center launched a non-profit environmental news service.
And as we pass the milestone of the 3,000th post on Great Lakes Echo, we’re celebrating with a new look.
We’re setting the foundation for another five years of producing and fostering original environmental news stories about the Great Lakes region.
Here’s what you’ll notice:
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