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 student lands research fellowship in Maine

Kevin Duffy

Kevin “Fitz” Duffy


Knight Center student Kevin Duffy recently accepted a research assistantship at the University of Maine in Orono.
Duffy, a second year master’s student at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism, currently reports for the center’s Great Lakes Echo. He was a co-recipient of the Knight Center’s Don Caldwell Memorial Scholarship in Environmental Journalism in 2015.
In August, he will join an interdisciplinary research team to investigate the perceptions of aquaculture — the fresh or salt water farming of fish, shellfish or aquatic plants — and to identify the best practices for communicating aquaculture’s role in coastal economies and food systems.
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Student food writers sought by MSU

Paid Michigan State University student writers are needed for the university’s Global Center for Food Systems Innovation.
The center supports the innovation of systems to better feed the developing world. The position requires one or more students with writing skills capable of following up on stories and creating web content.
Experience with web content management systems is useful but not required.
The paid position(s) would provide for up to 15 hours per week. If you’re interested, send resume and writing samples to Communications Director Jessy Sielski, sielskij@msu.edu.
The Knight Center has a joint project with GCFSI at The Food Fix.

MSU alum and National Geographic editor's career advice: "You just have to start"

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Susan Goldberg


Story by Marie Orttenburger
Video by Archit Batra
Michigan State University alum Susan Goldberg, now the editor in chief of National Geographic magazine, recently advised MSU students to  “make bold choices.”
Goldberg, who is also editorial director of National Geographic partners, graduated from MSU in 1984.
The university recently awarded her an honorary doctorate, and she delivered the fall commencement address.
 
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