Thanks to a large grant, an environmental journalism school will now be able to offer a "boot camp for environmental reporters." (Photo by Andrew Eldridge)
An environmental journalism program that trains college students and professional reporters has won a multi-million dollar grant to expand. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Erin Toner reports:
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An environmental journalism program that trains college students and professional reporters has won a multi-million dollar grant to expand.
The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Erin Toner reports:
The 2.2 million-dollar grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation was awarded to the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University.
The Knight Center trains students and journalists to research, report, and write about environmental issues. Knight Center director Jim Detjen says the money will allow the program to set up a national “boot camp” for environmental reporters.
“These are complicated issues, scientific issues often, that have legal aspects to it as well, so it’s critical to train journalists about these very important issues fairly, accurately, and have a good strong scientific basis to what they’re saying.”
The Knight Center also plans to expand its international programs, develop online courses, and create a textbook for college students about environmental reporting.
For the GLRC, I’m Erin Toner.