Catch of the Day
Fake and fungal news
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If you’re double checking the facts about snake fungus, chances are you distrust near everything.
Catch of the Day
Losing the stake in stakeholder
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Lake Superior State University’s annual list of useless words justifies editing quirks and perks.
Nearshore
Help Echo justify buying a news-gathering submarine
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By David Poulson
Here at Echo we’ve written lots about drones and even experimented with using them as a potential news-reporting platform. It’s challenging to take the concept very far as federal authorities try to sort through how to regulate them. Now there may be a way to do something similar underwater. TT Robotix has indicated it will come out with a remotely controlled submersible capable of taking a Go-Pro camera more than 30 feet under water. It can remotely take still and video images and even stream what the camera sees as it sees it.
Echo
Googlers ask why Great Lakes are salty
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Autocomplete gives clues to what people wonder about the region.
Land
Which book best captures the feel of your state’s environment?
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Brooklyn Magazine came out with a rather audacious list recently called The literary history of the United States: A map of the best book or every state.
Echo
Can you gamify Great Lakes news?
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A story about illegal fishing in West Africa is coupled with an interactive web game. It lets you play the role of a reporter tracking down the story.
Wildlife
Chef cooks up new way to explain threats from invasive species.
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He cooks up invasive species and the stories that go with them.
Echo
Former Echo reporter scores another national award, gives success formula
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A former Echo writer has won national recognition for a series of environmental stories about the Great Lakes. Brian Bienkowski, now a reporter and editor at Environmental Health News, received second place in a beat reporting category in the contest sponsored by the national Society of Environmental Journalists. The series is called Stories of the Great Lakes’ People, Places and Creatures. Bienkowski, a 2012 graduate of the Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, also received the same award in the same contest last year. While at MSU, he received the center’s Rachel Carson Award for outstanding environmental journalism graduate student.