L.A. Times Reporter and MSU J-School alum Tony Briscoe in this video explains the importance of reporting on environmental racism and social justice for marginalized communities.
The MSU Knight Center’s initiative to diversify reporters and reporting on environmental challenges offers significant scholarships, training and internships to for MSU J-School students to do just that.
The deadline to apply for two of the programs is this Sunday.
We are building expertise with paid opportunities to cover environmental threats that particularly harm marginalized communities. We’re looking for MSU students to report on how environmental decisions threaten social justice, civil rights, the health and values of diverse communities. The expertise of journalists is their lived experience. When it is diverse, better reporting happens and better decisions are made about environmental threats. The program does not require environmental experience.
Right now we are soliciting candidates for two programs with a Dec. 3 deadline:
· A three-credit scholarship for three students to enroll in one of MSU’s environmental reporting classes (JRN 372 or JRN 472) in Spring 2024. These classes can meet graduation requirements and help relieve costs. They are worth about $1,700. Need help paying for your education? Here's one way.
· A paid job reporting for the center’s award-winning Great Lakes Echo news service. Gain reporting experience and training and published by GreatLakesEcho.org and other major news providers. Interested? Before midnight Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, send to MSU Knight Center Senior Associate Director David Poulson, [email protected]:
· a resume.
· copies of or links to up to any three stories you’ve produced for publication or class.
· contact information for one reference and how you know that person.
· about 250 words on how your background and lived experience brings diversity to environmental reporting. That could be your
