Category Archives: Students

 
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 graduate student and faculty present their research at the 2016 AEJMC conference

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Ran Duan

Ran Duan


Knight Center doctoral student  Ran Duan  presented a study at the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication examining climate change images in U.S. newspapers.
The study,  titled “A construal-level perspective of climate change images in U.S. print newspapers,”  was co-authored with Knight Center research director  Bruno Takahashi  and Knight Center affiliated faculty member Adam Zwickle.
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Paid journalism jobs for MSU students

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The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism is looking for MSU students to report for the center’s award-winning Great Lakes Echo and for The Food Fix.
These are paid positions for reporting across a variety of platforms. Reporters work up to 20 hours a week on flexible shifts. They are based at 381 Communication Arts and Sciences.
Required: A commitment to accuracy, reliability, fairness and desire to learn.
Helpful but not required: previously published work and an interest in the environment.
Submit:

  • One-page resume
  • Writing samples or links to them
  • A 100-word essay explaining why you’re right for the job
  • Three references with contact information

Send to: Barb Miller, mille384@msu.edu. Put “KC job application” in the subject line.
Questions? Contact Knight Center Senior Associate Director David Poulson, 517 432 5417, poulsondavid@gmail.com

Knight Center faculty, students present research at Japan conference

Bruno Takahashi, awards a top student paper award.

Bruno Takahashi, awards a top student paper award.


Faculty and doctoral students affiliated with the Knight Center presented environmental research recently at the International Communication Association’s (ICA) 66th Annual Conference in Fukuoka, Japan.
The theme of the June 9-13 conference was “Communicating with Power.”
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Knight Center sponsors paid public radio internship to cover the environment

Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism is sponsoring a fulltime paid internship at Interlochen Public Radio for an MSU student or recent graduate to report on the environment.
The internship is based at the station at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan. Compensation is $1,000 per month plus housing and all meals when the cafeteria is open.  Continue reading →