The MSU J-School has launched an initiative to diversify journalists who report on the environment.
It offers significant scholarships, training and internships that benefit emerging and diverse student journalists in any field. Continue reading
MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism ran a science communication class during fall 2022 for 17 students from diverse science and communication fields.
The class produced compelling stories from dry studies, created narratives to accompany animated datasets, produced a shadow puppet show about invasive species, planned a museum exhibit of the future, created science TikToks and used humor to explain science.
One produced and performed a song with the rest of the class backing him. Another produced this video of what the rest of the class did.
The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism recently taught an online environmental journalism to a group of university students in Peru. This is one of the stories produced during that effort. The program was funded by the U.S. Embassy in Lima.
By Valeria Romero Espinoza
The corners of streets and avenues in the district of Villa El Salvador have become a garbage dump that creates an unpleasant landscape for passers-by who pass through these places daily.
The piles of garbage are an ongoing problem because the system for the collection and transportation of domestic and public waste is deficient and disorganized.
There is no proper solid waste management by the local government.
People leave their garbage bags and all types of waste at certain points on public roads, such as sidewalks, parks, avenues and central berms, many of these around markets, hospitals and schools, which leads to the accumulation of large amounts of garbage.
Garbage bags on Av. Micaela Bastidas.
Neighbors say this problem has several roots. Continue reading
Meeting with Journalism School director Tim Vos
For the past two weeks, the J-School hosted representatives from the Journalism & Mass Communications University of Uzbekistan as part of a capacity-building environmental and health reporting project funded by the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan.
Knight Center director Eric Freedman developed the project and secured the grant.
At the State News
Nozima Muratova, who led the delegation, is the vice rector for research and innovation at the 4-year-old university in Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent. Mukarram Otamurodova is a Ph.D. student who teaches an environmental, health and science course. Dilnora Azimova, who earned her master’s degree in MSU’s Health and Risk Communication Program, is a project consultant.
With journalism librarian Kathleen Weessies
They gave guest lectures in environmental reporting and health & risk communication classes, met with Michigan environmental and health communicators and reporters, and led a brown bag discussion of Uzbekistan’s media landscape for the MSU Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Meeting with Steve Hanson, Associate provost and Dean of International Studies & Programs
They also visited the Detroit News, Crain Communications, Detroit Public TV and the State News and met with MSU’s dean of International Studies & Programs.
In addition, they toured three environmentally significant sites: MSU’s Horticultural Gardens, Saugatuck State Park and the Granger landfill in Lansing.
Freedman is scheduled to visit their university later this month under the State Department grant.