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.
 
 

New documentaries among food communication showcase

MSU student Trish Abalo speaks with a Malawi vendor. Photo Credit: Alyssa Cleland

MSU student Trish Abalo speaks with a Malawi vendor. Photo Credit: Alyssa Cleland


Faculty and students affiliated with MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism are featuring a multi-media program to explain research and innovations for better feeding the world on Nov. 13.
The event showcases communication elements of the Translational Scholar Corps., a program developed with Michigan State University’s Global Center for Food Systems Innovation. The program explains global food problems and solutions in part by improving researchers’ ability to tell their own story.
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Knight Center alums earn new positions at Traverse City paper

Danielle Woodward

Danielle Woodward


Knight Center alum Danielle Woodward is a new business reporter at the Traverse City (Michigan)  Record Eagle.
Woodward, a 2015 graduate of Michigan State University’s School of Journalism, is a former reporter for the center’s Great Lakes Echo. She received the Knight Center’s 2015 Service Award and also a National Pulliam Journalism Fellowship.
She served an internship as copy editor at the Arizona Republic during the past summer.
She will be covering businesses in Traverse City and surrounding counties.
Carol Thompson

Carol Thompson


Among the staff that she joins is Carol Thompson, another Knight Center alum who worked at Great Lakes Echo. Thompson, a 2012 MSU graduate, recently picked up environmental reporting responsibilities at the paper.
During her stint with the Knight Center she was awarded the Edward J. Meeman award for outstanding undergraduate student in 2012.  She joined the Record Eagle in 2014 after reporting for two years at the Peninsula Pulse newspaper in Door County, Wis.
The Traverse City Record Eagle is a daily morning newspaper that serves 5 counties in northwest lower Michigan: Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Benzie, Antrim, Kalkaska.  It is owned by Community Newspaper Holding, Inc. along with more than 200 community newspapers throughout the United States.

Gender and food

Here’s a look at how researchers are examining the impact of gender on food systems and food systems reform.
It was produced by Michigan State University students affiliated with the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.
https://youtu.be/LMgixuGWyv8