[MUSIC] Welcome. You are getting advice and guidance in this course and specialization from the very best teachers in the world. They are high profiled professionals and they teach at Michigan State University in the School of Journalism. And you'll learn more about these distinguished teachers as you progress through the courses and through this specialization. But let me introduce myself. I'm Lucinda Davenport. I am the Director of the School of Journalism at Michigan State University. My prior administrative position had been as Associate Dean of Graduate Education. As a faculty member, I have taught all types of journalism classes from undergraduate to masters to doctoral levels and also across the board whether it came to broadcast journalism, print journalism, ethics, history, you name it, I've taught it. I also do a lot of research and present research, award winning research at National Conferences, and I write textbooks. And these textbooks are number one in their field for a variety of markets. And so they are kind of like the textbooks that other universities use. My professional experience includes being a reporter at a newspaper. It also includes being a news director at a public radio station. I've also done TV work, as well as I've done public relations at National Headquarters for jewelry companies across the country. I was also one of the first to do a lot when it comes to news and information online. And when it comes to our local newspaper, I was their very first online editor several years ago. So I keep in and out of the field. And as you can tell from that probably, my area of expertise has to do with journalism and innovative technologies. So, this has been fun putting together this course and the specialization. And you'll find that the journalism skills that you are learning here are the same ones that you will be using on a daily basis. They will help you throughout your daily life. [MUSIC] >> I'm professor Eric Friedman from Michigan State University School of Journalism. Before I joined the faculty, I worked as a newspaper reporter in New York and Michigan for 20 years. Winning a pulitzer prize for coverage of a legislative corruption scandal. I teach environmental journalism, public affairs journalism, and international journalism, and I still work as a freelance journalist and columnist. [MUSIC] >> Hi, I'm Joanne Gerstner, and I'm a sportswriter and also a professor of journalism at Michigan State University. I am so excited that we're going to be taking this journey together, to learn about journalism, and specifically a little bit about what I do in sports journalism. This is a great chance to learn about what we do. So, you probably ask, what's a sports journalist, and who am I? For the last 20 years, I covered sports around the world. Working for the New York Times, ESPN and USA Today, I've been lucky enough to be at the Olympics, the World Cup, the Superbowl. Sports journalism is something that goes across the world. People care about sports and they care about good journalism. So what do I emphasize for myself as a journalist? Number one, fairness for the people or the subjects or the topics you're talking about. Number two, always remember who your audience is, because that's how you're going to process the information to get to them in your news reports. And number three, are you actually telling people what they need to know? We're going to explore all of that, and I'm really excited to take this journey with you. Because it's pretty cool to be a sports journalist and I'm really lucky to get to do it. >> I'm Joe Grimm and I am so glad to be part of the team from the Michigan State University School of Journalism that is working with you. At Michigan State I teach reporting, writing, and editing. I also teach a fun class [LAUGH] the others are fun too. But I love this class in which students publish books to greater cultural competence. So far they've done about ten of them. I have also taught classes in photo journalism, editorial writing, and magazine writing. I have been teaching for a very long time. And I have been an editor for a very long time, too. I spent more than 25 years as an editor in the City of Detroit in Michigan in the United States. I'm no longer working in Detroit. I work at Michigan State all the time now, but I'm in Detroit pretty frequently. I have always thought of myself as a teaching editor. I'm looking forward to working with this great group of colleagues and bringing to you the same passion for journalism and learning that we talk about every time we are together in our journalism school. >> Hello, my name is David Poulson. I've been teaching journalism for more than a dozen years. And before that I was a reporter and an editor for more than two decades. Now I teach public affairs reporting, but I specialize in helping people tell better stories about science and the environment. I also edit two news services, there's this one, it's about the environment of the Great Lakes region of North America. and then there's this one. It's about people who are innovating ways to better feed the world in developing nations. Now I like outdoorsie kinds of stuff. I hike, I camp, I canoe, I run, but I also do weird stuff like I keep fish like these guys. These are African Cichlids from Lake Malawai in East Africa. I really like the view of the environment from under water but I also like the view from the air. You don't need an airplane like this one, you can use something like this. It's a real simple drone, it's got a video camera on the nose and another one underneath. It's a way cool way of doing journalism. [MUSIC] >> Hi I'm Jeremy Steele, I'm a specialist in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University. Before joining our faculty I was a journalist for about ten years and a professional communicator. I've covered local government and business issues as a reporter and consulted with local, regional, and national organizations on communication strategy. Here at Michigan state I teach beginning and advanced journalism courses. I also coordinate our programming for high school journalism programs all over the state of Michigan. I'm looking forward to working with you throughout this course. [MUSIC]
