Knight News
Knight Center Launches Online Courses
Trying to juggle job, internship and J-School program requirements this summer? Here’s a great way to pick up a 400- or 800- level journalism course on your own schedule. The MSU Knight Center for Environmental Journalism is launching undergraduate and graduate online environmental reporting courses this summer. Read more about it.
Knight Center students receive top honors
Four student reporting projects affiliated with Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism received top honors in the Region 4 Mark of Excellence contest of the Society of Professional Journalists. The winning entries encompass journalism efforts in broadcast, magazine, feature-writing and online investigations. Read more about it.
MSU awarded the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism's efforts to promote diversity
The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism was honored by MSU on Wednesday, March 12 for the center's innovative efforts to promote diversity.
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MSU conference helps Detroit student journalists cover heath and the environment
What are the causes of teen depression? How will global warming affect polar bears and other wildlife? Will the cosmetics you use today make you sick when you get older? These are some of the questions that more than 200 high school journalists from Detroit explored on Wednesday, Feb. 27 during a day-long conference called “Steroids, Makeup and Polar Bears: Journalism and the Environment.”
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Three student-produced videos win awards at the first Great Lakes Environmental Film Festival
Three video projects, produced by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and the College of Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) at Michigan State University, won honors at the first annual Great Lakes Environmental Film Festival in Bay City, Michigan in early January.
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MSU's Great Lakes Wiki receives national recognition.
A Michigan State University experiment in environmental reporting is among the projects recognized by a national competition for cutting edge journalism.
Judges of the Knight-Batten Awards recognized MSU's Great Lakes Wiki "for collecting information as broad and deep as the Great Lakes it covers." The contest spotlights the creative use of new information ideas and technologies that involve citizens in public issues. Only 10 of the 133 entries were honored.
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Knight Center sponsored workshop wins third place at AEJMC.
A Knight Center for Environmental Journalism workshop for Detroit high school students won a national award in August 2007 at the annual meeting of journalism educators. The workshop, “Cell Phones, Hurricanes & Mascara: Journalism and the Environment," which was organized by Jim Detjen, Cheryl Pell and Sandra Combs of the School of Journalism won third place in the Innovative Outreach to Scholastic Journalism competition of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication. The award was given to the journalism educators at the national AEJMC conference in Washington, D.C. on August 11, 2007. The workshop at the Detroit Science Center trained more than 200 high school journalism students from 14 Detroit high schools about environmental, science and health journalism on February 28, 2007. Emilia Askari, a reporter at the Detroit Free Press, also played a key role in coordinating this event.
Knight Center Director Lectures in Austria.
Jim Detjen, Director of MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, lectured about global media coverage of climate change to students and faculty from 15 countries at an innovative global seminar held in a historic palace in Salzburg, Austria on July 31, 2007.
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Everyone knows they should recycle, but not everyone does. That’s why an MSU class created a video to promote it.
The result, “Recycling: Every Bit Helps,” is a four-minute feature that gives a crash-course in recycling.
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New environmental option available for incoming master's students
The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism is pleased to now offer a master's degree in journalism with an option in environmental journalism to the entering class of fall 2008.
Read more about this specialization here.
