Knight Center student reports on the environment for Interlochen Public Radio
By Rianna Middleton Michigan-native Maxwell Johnston, a journalism fifth-year senior, had never been farther north than Grand Rapids until last summer when he interned for Interlochen Public Radio, a...
View ArticleKnight Center student recognized for food reporting
The Association of Food Journalists recently recognized Knight Center student Carin Tunney for excellence in writing about food. Tunney received second place in the student division of the 2017...
View ArticleReminder of Knight Center documentary grant competition
The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism will award up to three grants of $3,500 each to support the making of environment-related documentaries (video, audio or other digital media) by MSU...
View ArticleThree high schools win journalism-environmental science grants from the...
By Eric Freedman The Knight Center is awarding $2,000 grants to three Michigan high schools for collaboration between their journalism and environmental science classes. The winning projects were...
View ArticleKnight Center grad recognized as young environmental leader
Knight Center alum Haley Walker recently joined the Oregon Environmental Council‘s Emerging Leaders Board. The council’s advisory board of “entrepreneurs, strategist, community leaders and visionaries...
View ArticleField trip: Teaching journalists and scientists on two continents
By David Poulson Phillip Kamwendo finished explaining to a group of African reporters how he used “friendly bacteria” to improve groundnut seeds. Then the Malawi researcher turned to a nearby team led...
View ArticleTelling stories to change the world
By David Poulson Jan Kreuze stood in front of a room full of reporters and began shredding paper. “This is how a plant attacks a virus,” the researcher explained. Then he bent over and gathered up the...
View ArticleThe environment is THE beat of the 21st century
By Jack Nissen Environmental journalism is known by some reporters as the “bummer beat” and “the journalism of despair.” For Christy George, it’s going to be the “story of the 21st century.” “It...
View ArticleKnight Center faculty teach environmental journalism in Chile
The effort is part of a project to improve environmental journalism skills among journalism students and journalists.
View ArticleSeeing the real America through national parks
By Eric Freedman If we want international visitors to understand what makes America so special a country, we need to do more than talk in lofty terms about constitutional rights and economic...
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