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The Knight Chair in Journalism
Jim Detjen joined the MSU Journalism School faculty in January 1995 as the Knight Chair in Journalism, the nation's only endowed chair in environmental journalism. Prior to joining MSU's faculty, he spent 21 years as a professional newspaper reporter and editor.
From 1973 to 1977 Jim covered local government, police, agriculture and the environment at The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal and covered environmental issues, worked as an investigative reporter and wrote editorials while at The Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal from 1978 to 1982. He covered scientific, environmental and medical issues and also served as a part time editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1982 to 1994.
Jim has won more than 45 state and national awards, including the George Polk for regional reporting, the National Headliner Award for investigative reporting, Thomas Stokes Award for natural resources reporting (twice) and the Edward Meeman Award for environmental reporting (five times).
Jim's work has been nominated eight times for a Pulitzer Prize and three times he has been a finalist, most recently in 1995 for a team project that investigated political corruption in North Philadelphia. Jim earned a B.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. and a M.S. degree in journalism with honors from Columbia University. He is founding president of the Society of Environmental Journalists and since 1994 has been the president of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists.
The Knight Chair in Journalism