Students Attend Lunch Talk with Alaskan Alumna Margie Bauman

The Knight Center has again hosted Margie Bauman, the Alaska bureau chief for the Fishermen’s News, environmental and fisheries reporter for the Cordova Times on Prince William Sound, Alaska, and an alum of Michigan State's School of Journalism.

Bauman joined Knight Center staff and students of the Journalism School for lunch, talked about covering Alaska-British Columbia environmental issues to a class on international journalism taught by Knight Center director Eric Freedman and spoke at an evening session hosted by MSU’s Canadian Studies Center.

She spoke about the place she’s called home for decades and the environmental problems it faces.

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By Steven Maier