The Meeman Archive
The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism houses the Meeman Archive, the nation's finest collection of environmental newspaper reporting.
Established by the Scripps-Howard News Service in 1982, the archive preserves outstanding journalism about conservation, natural resources and the environment.
The archive originally consisted of entries and winners of the Edward J. Meeman Award, sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation. In recent years it has been expanded with entries from the annual awards sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists, Thomas L. Stokes Award, John Oakes Award and the Waldo Proffitt Award.
The archive contains thousands of articles dating from 1980 to the present. They cover hundreds of environmental topics. About 6,000 articles have been entered into a database that can be searched with the sub-navigation links to the left. The File Identifier code locates paper copies of stories within the archive.
In addition, a limited number of entries have been scanned. Such entries are noted with a link on an entry called "view." A username and password to access these scans is provided to a limited number of qualified researchers. Contact ej@msu.edu for information.
Entering articles into the database and attaching scans to them is an ongoing process the Knight Center works on as funding is available. The archive is part of Michigan State University's growing collection of environmental journalism resources that include books and videotapes and audiotapes of interviews with key environmental figures.
To contribute tax-deductible materials to the archive, contact Jim Detjen or 517/353-9479. We safeguard valuable artifacts of environmental reporting for the benefit of students, scholars, historians and journalists.
