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 grad lands job as environmental communications director

Haley Walker

Haley Walker


Michigan State University Knight Center graduate Haley Walker recently landed a job as the communications manager of The Freshwater Trust in Portland, Oregon.
The Freshwater Trust is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that actively works to preserve and restore the country’s freshwater ecosystems. The group builds, locally implements and scales game-changing tools that help achieve freshwater health.
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Work of Knight Center students featured in national environmental journalism publication

Lake Michigan shoreline near Charlevoix decades apart.

These images at the site of a cement factory along Lake Michigan near Charlevoix were taken decades apart. To make the slider move, go to http://greatlakesecho.org/2015/01/12/landfills-line-lakeside-landscape/


The work of three students at the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism was featured recently by the SEJournal, a publication of the professional Society of Environmental Journalists.
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Knight Center students snowshoe to journalism workshop

Knight Center students and faculty snowshoe to the University of Notre Dame’s Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility. Attending the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources are from right students Jenna Chapman, Kevin Duffy and Amanda Proscia and Knight Center Senior Associate Director David Poulson. Image: Jim Bloch

Knight Center students and faculty snowshoe to the University of Notre Dame’s Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility. Attending the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources are from right students Jenna Chapman, Kevin Duffy and Amanda Proscia and Knight Center Senior Associate Director David Poulson. Image: Jim Bloch


By Amanda Proscia
With noses running, bodies shivering and faces smiling, three Knight Center student journalists recently snowshoed to a session of an environmental journalism workshop.
The Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources (IJNR) hosted the two-day “Talking Science, Telling Stories” workshop in South Bend, Indiana, for reporters mostly from the Midwest.
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MSU journalism students eligible for scholarships; many are environment-related

The application deadline for scholarships from the MSU School of Journalism is Jan. 30.
Many of the scholarships target students interested in environmental reporting. You can find a list of the scholarships and how to apply online here.
The scholarships are awarded spring semester for use the following summer or fall. Undergraduate and graduate students who will not graduate in the spring are eligible.