Category Archives: Workshops

The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism organizes workshops to help journalists better report on the environment in the U.S. and abroad. Information about recent and upcoming conferences is posted here.

Knight Center director speaks in Finland

Knight Center Director Eric Freedman lecturing at University of Turku in Finland.

Knight Center director Eric Freedman recently gave two guest lectures at the University of Turku in Finland, sponsored by its Centre for East Asia Studies.
One lecture explored government efforts, primarily in Asia, to suppress cyber-dissent, including the imprisonment of bloggers and online dissidents, censorship, violation of international human rights, monitoring of blogs and websites, surveillance laws and blocking of oppositional websites.
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Knight Center offers workshop on reporting about drinking water

By Kayla Smith
Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and the university’s Water Science Network are hosting a free workshop about reporting on drinking water on April 16.
“Beyond Flint: Reporting the unreported water stories in your communities” is a half-day workshop for journalists and other environmental communicators. It features experts in journalism, water restoration, utility infrastructure, drinking water and environmental advocacy.
The session is slated for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lansing Board of Water & Light’s John F. Dye Water Plant. Lunch is provided.
There is no fee, but enrollment is limited and registration required.
To reserve a slot, register before April 11 by emailing mille384@msu.edu.
Questions? Contact Barb Miller, 517-432-1415.

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.

Knight Center faculty member discusses geography tools to explain the environment

Knight Center Senior Associate Director David Poulson describes how journalists use digital geography tools to report on the environment.

It’s a challenge to conceive of a news community consisting of parts of eight states and two provinces.
But an orbital camera can snap it all in the same frame.
Satellite imagery was among the digital geography tools for journalism that David Poulson demonstrated recently at Michigan State University’s library.
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