School of Journalism at Michigan State University

05/07/2026

MSU Knight Center for Environmental Journalism students and staff traveled to the 2026 Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Conference in Chicago. They attended panels, embarked on tours and connected with other environmental journalists — including some alumni.

04/27/2026

https://knightcenter.jrn.msu.edu/2026/04/27/msu-knight-center-clacs-to-host-international-symposium-on-democracy-and-environmental-communication-in-colombia/

BY ANNA BARNES & SHEALYN PAULIS The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University (MSU) will co-organize an international symposium on environmental communication and democracy on May 4, 2026, in Chía, Colombia. The e...

04/10/2026

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04/08/2026

David Lawrence Jr. is intense. He goes full-out whether engaged in a struggle between the country’s biggest newspaper chains or helping its smallest children. He led the Detroit Free Press as Knight Ridder and the
Gannett-owned News battled for supremacy. He battled systems that discourage newsroom diversity. He helped create a high school journalism program and Children First advocacy that became national models. He works so intently on children’s learning that a K-8 public school has been named after him.

Lawrence is one of five inductees into this year’s Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. He and the others will be honored on April 19 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing.

04/08/2026

John W. Lindstrom is a reporter’s reporter. He has earned – and shares – deep knowledge of Michigan government and politics. Lindstrom helped make Gongwer News Service the hands-down, must-read, go-to source on state policy. He explains how the Single Business Tax, Proposal A school funding and other policies affect lives. As statehouse reporting is diminishing across the country, Lindstrom may be the last of a breed we will miss.

He is one of five inductees to this year’s Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. The class will be honored April 19 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing.

04/03/2026

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03/26/2026

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03/25/2026

Digital storytelling and theater department students are collaborating on a production premiering tonight called “Recorded in Front of a Live Studio Audience.”

Theater students will be performing, while DS students will be recording the show and editing the footage.

The show runs from March 25 to March 29 at WKAR Studio A in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building. Admission is free for students.

Photo credit: Laini Seltzer, taken at the show’s technical rehearsal.

03/25/2026

Bill Kubota is a video journalist who makes people look at what they might not want to see. He learned to tell stories covering the rise of cellphones and crack addiction, the coalescence of neo-Nazis and the Klan, of Vietnam veterans’ broken-hearted homecomings. He keeps honing his work on anti-Asian hate and the 40th anniversary of Vincent Chin’s brutal killing, which created a U.S. pan-Asian identity. Kubota’s training grounds have been the streets of Lansing and Flint and DPTV’s One Detroit.

Kubota is one of five inductees into this year’s class of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

The 2026 Hall of Fame class will be honored at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing on April 19.

03/25/2026

Jeanne Findlater reached from her platform as a TV Vice President and General Manager to raise up lives with content. Working from WXYZ-TV, Channel 7 in Detroit, her teams enlightened millions about literacy, teen pregnancy, high school graduation rates and vaccinations. Content she championed was shared or syndicated coast to coast. As a pioneering female executive, Findlater encouraged and mentored a generation of women and men to make journalism do more.

Findlater is one of five inductees into this year’s class of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

The class will be honored on April 19 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing.