By Clara Lincolnhol
Skyline High School journalism students shared their reporting work and listened to Great Lakes Echo’s senior editor speak recently at the Knight Center of Environmental Journalism.
Skyline’s journalism teacher, Annie Blais, says the Ann Arbor school’s journalism class enables students to improve their writing, become better consumers of news and find topics they’re passionate about.
By Bruno Takahashi & Iasmim Amiden dos Santos
In a bid to tackle pressing environmental issues in South America, 12 Bolivian journalists gathered at Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism from October 28 to November 1. The workshop, “Innovations in Environmental Journalism for a Complex World,” aimed to equip reporters with new skills and insights to enhance environmental coverage in Bolivia and across the region.
Erika Bayá Santos, Red Ambiental de Información during the workshop
Student reporters created three short documentaries during study abroad.
Anna Barnes and Shealyn Paulis
By Clara Lincolnhol
Climate of Contempt cover. Image: Columbia University Press
“Be curious, not judgemental.” This quote from the popular comedy-drama “Ted Lasso” is how a professor of energy law recommends we approach conversations about energy policy and politics.
“We can be a force that fights against demonization and the nastiness online and instead ask questions to people who introduce an idea that’s different or contradicts what we believe,” said David Spence, a professor of energy law at the University of Texas Austin and author of “Climate of Contempt.”
Spence was at the MSU School of Journalism where he spoke in an environmental journalism class and at a public seminar sponsored by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.