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Innovative workshop communication challenge


By David Poulson
This video represents an intriguing challenge: How do you engage people with an unusual workshop that they didn’t attend?
It’s one of the communication projects that grew out of the Knight Center’s work with Michigan State University’s Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI). The challenge of that work is to translate research into methods of better feeding the world in ways that engages the public.
In January GCFSI brought together food researchers from throughout the world to discuss not only their innovative ideas, but innovative mechanisms for fostering and then implementing such ideas.
This video distills and captures that effort.

Of Nazis in the North Woods, journalism and stories that reemerge

Cover of the novel Wolf's Mouth by John Smolens.

Cover of the novel Wolf’s Mouth by John Smolens.


By Eric Freedman
As journalists, stories from our distant past sometimes reemerge in the context of a new story.
Most often it involves a person we’d covered who pops up again in the headlines.
That happened with me and Mario Cuomo, for example. The second story I wrote as a brand-new reporter for an Albany, N.Y., daily was about a 1976 Cuomo press conference on changes in lobbying regulations.  At the time he was the appointed New York secretary of state — a low-profile, unglamorous position that oversaw elections, lobbying and campaign finance. Continue reading →

National Geographic editor is 2015 fall commencement speaker

Screen Shot 2015-12-07 at 12.48.46 PMNational Geographic editor and Michigan State University alum Susan Goldberg is the university’s fall commencement speaker.
MSU School of Journalism students will meet with her from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18, at the university’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences building. To attend, RSVP by Dec. 11 at tinyurl.com/susangoldberg.
Goldberg, who graduated from the MSU School of Journalism in 1984, is also editorial director for all National Geographic Partners.