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Any MSU School of Journalism masters student can enroll in an environmental journalism class to fulfill graduate requirements or electives.
Students can also complete a specialized master’s degree environmental option that combines environmental journalism, science or policy courses. Students learn advanced reporting techniques for covering complicated environmental issues. The environmental option appears on a graduate’s transcript.
FAQ for masters program.
Students must be admitted into the M.A. Program in Journalism and have selected the Environmental Option. The MSU environmental journalism option requirements are here.

Knight Center and affiliated faculty teach a rotating schedule of graduate-level environmental journalism courses. Consult schedule of courses for the latest offerings.
Graduate students are encouraged to join the student Environmental Journalism Association and report for Great Lakes Echo, the Knight Center’s award-winning non-profit environmental news service.
They are encouraged to augment their study with environment classes and programs elsewhere at MSU such as through the Environmental Science and Policy Program.
    
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Applications to the School of Journalism’s masters program are accepted on a rolling basis. Students should submit an electronic application and send GRE scores and two copies of their official undergraduate transcript. International students should submit TOEFL scores. Send to:
 
MSU Admissions Office
250 Administration Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Mich. 48824
 
 
Applicants should also send the following:

three letters of recommendation
a 750-word autobiography
a 1,000-word statement of purpose
a resume
and an indication of interest in an assistantship or other financial aid
to the Journalism School:
 
MSU School of Journalism
c/o the Graduate Secretary
School of Journalism
305 Communication Arts Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1212
 
For questions, contact graduate student coordinator Nancy Ashley, ashleyn@msu.edu
  
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Limited graduate assistantships are occasionally available, depending on faculty research grants. Students may also qualify for scholarships.
 

 
 

Knight Center students honored at annual awards convocation

Undergraduate and graduate students associated with the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism will take top honors in the 2014 MSU School of Journalism Awards Convocation on Sunday April 14.
The outstanding PhD student, Kanni Huang, the outstanding master’s student, Katheryn Amann, and one of the J-School’s two outstanding seniors, Becky McKendry are all affiliated with the Knight Center.
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Knight Center graduate gets new environmental post

Aileo Weinmann

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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