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This screen grab from the episode “The Battle Over Line 5” from Great Lakes Now shows a diver inspecting Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac. The News has partnered with GLN to share coverage of the big lakes.
With regular coverage of marine sanctuary research, Lake Huron’s fishing, and other recreational activity and watchdog journalism, The Alpena News daily newspaper brings readers the latest about a four-county Great Lakes community.
Through a new partnership with Great Lakes Now, those stories will reach a larger audience as they will be regularly published on the GreatLakesNow.org website. And Alpena News readers will see Great Lakes Now stories and be able to view segments from GLN’s monthly TV program on the paper’s website.
By Great Lakes Echo
Great Lakes Echo has joined a nationwide collaborative to provide better and more local reporting of climate change.
The Local Media Association selected the 12-year-old regional news service as one of 22 leading outlets in the Covering Climate Collaborative.
Echo is a project of Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.
It is one of two members of the collaborative where university students are the key journalists.
“Echo is founded on the idea that the best way to teach journalism is to do it,” said David Poulson, the editor and founder of Great Lakes Echo. “We are eager to extend that mission and even more eager to better serve our region with the support and training provided by the Local Media Association.”
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Research boat explores a sinkhole on the northern edge of Rockport’s Middle Island. Image: NOAA/David Ruck, Great Lakes Outreach Media
What do sharks, mysterious sinkholes, Indigenous foods, poaching and Milwaukee harbor have in common?
All were topics of the most-viewed stories on Great Lakes Echo last year.
And more than half – nine – of the most popular 16 stories dealt with wildlife
Some on the top-16 roster were newly reported in 2020, including ones about mysterious sinkholes under Lake Huron and recipes for Great Lakes Indigenous foods.
But other stories displayed a long lifespan of reader attention, including the most popular one – about bull sharks in the Great Lakes (not) published in 2015. The longest-lived – about regulating water levels on the Great Lakes – first appeared in 2009.
By Brandon Chew
An Upper Peninsula Lutheran minister recently linked Christian and Indigenous theology, gray wolves and COVID-19 in an article for Earthbeat, a climate change reporting initiative for the National Catholic Reporter.
Jon Magnuson, is the director of the Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan, a non-profit organization that runs seminars and workshops related to mental health, religion and the environment. The institute also provides counseling, mediation and consulting.
Magnuson, with masters degrees in divinity and social work, has taught classes at Northern Michigan University, Oregon State University, Seattle Pacific University and the University of Washington. He writes about spirituality, cross-cultural conflict and psychology.