Knight Center research director publishes new book on environmental journalism in Latin America

Dr. Manuel Chavez and Dr. Bruno Takahashi

Knight Center research director Bruno Takahashi has co-edited a volume titled  News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The edited collection provides an overview of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues. Each chapter covers news coverage and journalistic practices in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru.

Book jacket

The chapters highlight the political, economic and social pressures that journalists face, which include the tensions between economic development and environmental conservation, as well as social inequalities that affect these countries.

Takahashi’s co-editors are center affiliate Manuel Chavez, Juliet Pinto of Pennsylvania State University and Mercedes Vigon of Florida International University.

 

Students can get support to attend SEJ conference

A limited number of Michigan State University students can attend a national journalism conference for free this week in Flint.

The conference at the University of Michigan – Flint campus is the nation’s largest meeting of journalists who report on the environment. This year’s conference will include sessions on environmental justice and the urban environment. A full agenda of the conference Wednesday through Sunday is at https://www.sej.org/sej-annual-conferences/AC2018-agenda

The Knight Center has limited support to cover one-day registrations of MSU students. For availability, contact Barb Miller, mille384@msu.edu.

Knight Center director reports on soft propaganda from Moscow, protests in Tbilisi

By Eric Freedman

A short article on the website of Georgia Today, an English-language newspaper, was headlined “Journalism and Youth: The South Caucasus Media Forum” and read like an innocuous advance story about an upcoming conference “where lectures of prominent figures of journalism and political science for young journalists and observers will be featured.” It said the main topics of the Sept. 4-7 forum would include regional political culture and media trends.

I saw the story two days before leaving the U.S. to spend the fall teaching and doing research in the Republic of Georgia. Sounded useful to give me a better sense of the mediascape in the South Caucasus. Continue reading