Student Articles

Knight Center students not only go to class but write about current environmental issues impacting society. These journalistic pieces are being published in various news outlets across the country. Read articles below:

Livescience.com
Unlocking the Secrets of Atomic Nuclei
- Matthew Cimitile

Bay Soundings
Mangroves: Tampa Bay's Cash Crop? - Matthew Cimitile

Traverse City Record Eagle
Funding may hinder regulation of mercury - Andrew Mcglashen

Capital News Service
State bristles at possible looser federal rules for large feedlots - Andrew Mcglashen

City Pulse
Coal Shoulder - Andrew Norman
Following the Cookbook - Andrew Norman

 

Student Projects

Here are examples of environmental reporting produced by students affiliated with MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.

Web sites and multimedia

 

Master's projects

Master's students have the option to create a project to satisfy degree requirements. Here are a few examples:

Exploring the past to Save the Future
By Matthew Cimitile

Madagascar at a Crossroads
By Anisa Abid

Seeds of Change
By Jessica Knoblauch

ejmagazine.com
By Katie Coleman

Documerica images
By Jeremy Herliczek

The Meeman Archive: Its Place in History and its Uncertain Future
By Brian Foley

From Lake to shining Lake: Environmental issues covered by Michigan’s newspapers
By Karessa Weir

A Long Road Ahead: Michigan’s
Renewable Energy Scene

By Chad Dally

Environmental Journalism reports by the Investigative Environmental Reporting (JRN 408)

Wilderness writing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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