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Journalism and non-journalism students at Michigan State University explore how to better report environmental issues to the public at the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.
 

Environmental journalism courses can help students meet the School of Journalism’s elective requirements. They can also be used as part of an environmental theme to complete the school’s concentration requirement by combining them with environment-related courses outside the journalism program. See your academic adviser or contact the Knight Center.
 
Non-journalism students interested in environmental issues are encouraged to contact instructors to discuss waiver of pre-requisites. Often a journalism environmental course may meet communication course requirements of other departments.
 

 
Undergraduates are also encouraged to join the student Environmental Journalism Association and write for Great Lakes Echo to gain resume-building experience and clips.
 
Undergraduate students are eligible for several awards and scholarships in environmental journalism.
 
They are encouraged to augment their study with environment classes and programs elsewhere at MSU such as the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment.
 
 

Knight Center researchers win paper award for study on Latin America at 2024 AEJMC Conference

Knight Center’s Research Director Bruno Takahashi and doctoral researcher Iasmim Amiden dos Santos won first place in the Latin American Communication Research and Researchers Award at the 2024 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference.

Their paper titled “Building Bridges: A Narrative Literature Review of Spanish and Portuguese Language Climate Change Communication Scholarship from Latin America,” won the award offered by the International Communication Division of AEJMC. The paper was co-authored with María Fernanda Salas from the Universidad de Costa Rica.

In this study, they present the main trends in climate change communication research in the region, highlighting the significant contributions of Latin American scholars to the field. Their goal is to build bridges between academics from the Global North and South.

Iasmim Amiden dos Santos and Bruno Takahashi receiving the award

From right to left: Bruno Takahashi, Iasmim Amiden dos Santos and Maria Fernanda Salas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reporting on climate change impacts on marginalized communities

By Wajeeha Kamal

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of stories coming out of a recent meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Philadelphia.

Moderator Evlondo Cooper and panelists Charles Ellison, Jordan Gass-Poorè, Bilal Motley and Tammy Murphy discuss reporting on environmental justice at a recent Society of Environmental Journalists conference

Moderator Evlondo Cooper and panelists Charles Ellison, Jordan Gass-Poorè, Bilal Motley and Tammy Murphy discuss reporting on environmental justice at a recent Society of Environmental Journalists conference

Communities are suffering in silence.

There’s no question that mainstream media doesn’t cover the systemic inequalities exposed and exacerbated by environmental habits, said Evlondo Cooper, senior writer for the Climate Energy Program at Media Matters for America.

Journalists, filmmakers and environmental advocacy groups examined the urgent need for the news media to evolve its approach to reporting environmental justice at a recent Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Philadelphia.

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Paid summer reporting internships available for MSU students at five Michigan news organizations

Michigan State University students with diverse backgrounds and life experiences are eligible for five paid internships this summer at major multi-media Michigan news organizations.

These internships through MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism meet the MSU J-School’s internship requirement. Environmental expertise or particular interest is not required. But you’ll gain both.

The application deadline is 10 p.m. on March 17, 2025

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