The Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
1908: The World's First School of Journalism
1909: Move to Switzler Hall
1909: First Graduates
1910: The First Editors Week
1910: Students Found National Journalism Organization
1912: Organizing Journalism Educators
1912: First International Graduate
1913: World's First Bachelor of Journalism Degree
1913: Photo Illustration Training
1914: The Journalist's Creed
1915: Williams Leads International Journalism Organization
1916: Missourian Name Change
1917: World War I Affects Journalism Enrollment
1917: Journalism Education in China
1919: The Gift of Jay H. Neff Hall
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Photographic Training Offered

 
Herbert Smith, BS '11, returned to the School to install and operate a photo-engraving plant as well as teach newspaper illustrating and advertising. The term "photojournalism" was not coined until the 1940s and is often credited to Cliff Edom, a photojournalism professor at the Missouri School of Journalism for nearly three decades.


Herbert Smith, BS '11, operated a photo engraver in the School's first photographic laboratory.
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