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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.
He taught 52 students from five continents at the inaugural Salzburg Academy Program on Media and Global Change held at the Schloss Leopoldskron, a historic palace where the movie "The Sound of Music," was filmed in the 1960s. Among the participants were journalism students from China, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, England, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Pakistan, Oman, , Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Canada and the United States. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy gave the opening address at the three-week seminar, which focused on the media's coverage of terrorism and climate change. Other speakers included pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, former music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the novel Independence Day.
The Salzburg Academy is jointly organized by the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism and the Salzburg Global Seminar, a non-governmental organization that brings together imaginative thinkers from different cultures to solve issues of global concern. The academy was funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and other organizations.
