Jada Vasser
Jada Vasser is an MSU journalism major with a minor in documentary production and a Planet Detroit 2024 summer intern, focusing on health and environmental impacts on the Black community. Her internship is supported by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism with a grant from the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessment/National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration at the University of Michigan.
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
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
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.
Student reporters cover the Society of Environmental Journalists Conference