Professor Eric Freedman
Professor Joshua Duchan
Knight Center director Eric Freedman and Professor Joshua Duchan of the Wayne State University School of Music presented their study about the depiction of newsboys and newsgirls in sheet music between the mid-1840s and the late 1930s.
This presentation was part of the “Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lves” series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources & Labor Relations and the MSU Library.
Carol Terracina-Hartman, a Knight Center alumna and assistant professor of journalism and mass communications at Murray State University, has won the Louis E. Inglehart First Amendment Award from the College Media Association.
The award is named to honor Ingelhart, a retired Ball State University journalism professor, who dedicated his academic career to studying and teaching the First Amendment. An awardee has to make an extraordinary, long-term contribution in support of the First Amendment.
The MSU Knight Center’s initiative to diversify reporters and reporting on environmental challenges offers significant scholarships, training and internships that benefit emerging and diverse student journalists in any field.
One focus of the program is on building expertise with paid opportunities to cover environmental threats that particularly harm marginalized communities. We’re looking for students who contribute to diversity report on how environmental decisions threaten social justice, civil rights, the health and values of diverse communities.
The expertise of journalists is their lived experience. When it is diverse, better reporting happens and better decisions are made about environmental threats.
The program does not require environmental experience.
Right now the program is soliciting candidates for two programs: Continue reading
Photo credit: Patrol project
The new documentary “Patrol” is about Indigenous Rama and Afro-descendent Kriol communities of Nicaragua fighting illegal cattle ranching in the Indio Maíz Biological Reserve not far from the Costa Rican border.
The film, supported in part by a grant from the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, will be aired on the MSU campus.
“This is the story of them and how they struggle to protect their ancestral territory,” said Tardi, an activist, who decided to stay anonymous for safety reasons. Continue reading