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2000-PresentUpdated: 12 May 2008. Heather Cottle, BJ '07, won the Vormelker-Thomas Student Award sponsored by the Special Libraries Association. The award provides a $1,500 stipend to assist graduate students attending their first Special Libraries Association Annual conference, which will be June 15-18 in Seattle. Cottle is currently a graduate student at MU's School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, and she works as a graduate assistant in the Frank Lee Martin Memorial Library at the Missouri School of Journalism. Added: May 12, 2008Amy Smith, BJ '05, MA '07, is a senior account executive at Fleishman-Hillard in Kansas City. She works on behalf of consumer and healthcare clients. Added: May 9, 2008 Mark Greenblatt, BJ '00, a reporter for KHOU-TV in Houston, is a finalist for the 2007 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. The Livingstons, the nation's largest all-media, general reporting prizes, award three $10,000 prizes for Local, National, and International Reporting to journalists under the age of 35. The winners will be announced on June 4, 2008. Greenblatt is a member of the KHOU Defenders, an investigative reporting team that won the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 2005. [More] Updated: May 8, 2008 Wright Thompson, BJ '01, a writer for ESPN.com, is a finalist for the 2007 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. The Livingstons, the nation's largest all-media, general reporting prizes, award three $10,000 prizes for Local, National, and International Reporting to journalists under the age of 35. The winners will be announced on June 4, 2008. Added: May 8, 2008 Zack Ottenstein, BJ '05, is the investigative reporter for WTVG, the ABC affiliate in Toledo, Ohio. Added: April 29, 2008 Erica Brooks, BJ '04, is associate art director at McMurry in Phoenix, where she oversees the design of several custom-published magazines. Brooks accepted the position after taking several months out of the world of employment to travel to Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. Added: April 28, 2008 Traci Angel, MA '07, is the Missouri School of Journalism's recipient of the 2008 Merck Science Journalism Award in recognition of her outstanding work in science and health writing. In addition to receiving a $1,000 monetary award and plaque, Angel participated in a four-day conference at Rutgers University along with 11 other student winners from journalism schools throughout the United States and Canada. Angel served as a Knight Editing Fellow at the School for the 2005-2006 academic year, working as the co-editor of the general assignment beat at the Columbia Missourian. Added: April 28, 2008
Danielle McClure, BJ '03, is a writer and editor at Soap Opera Digest in New York City. Previously, she was a staff writer for Black & White, an alternative weekly in Birmingham, Ala. McClure also has written features and reviews for music Web site Prefix, Time Out New York and Comic Foundry magazines. Added: March 31, 2008 Katie Shaw, BJ '04, is an account supervisor on the Sonic account at BARKLEY in Kansas City, Mo. Added: March 31, 2008 Lesley Eberts, BJ '05, is working as strategic director for the Republik, a Durham, N.C.-based advertising agency. Added: March 31, 2008 Rob Sandler, BJ '03, is managing editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times. Added: March 21, 2008 Jason Rosenbaum, BJ '06, is the state government reporter for the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune. Added: March 19, 2008
Katie Zeidman, BJ '05, is an account executive at Blick & Staff Communications in St. Louis. Updated: March 7, 2008 Darbi Gibson, BJ '04, works at Columbia College in the public relations and marketing department. She also has a creative lifestyle and wedding photography side business, Darbi G. Photography & Design. Gibson specializes in documenting weddings, family, babies, children, maternity and bands in a fun, edgy and relaxed style. Updated: Feb. 28, 2008 Kyle McDaniel, MA '07, is the assistant photo editor at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison. He has previously worked as a staff photographer and photo editor for several publications, including The Columbia Missourian. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Julie Vadnal, BJ '07, is an editorial assistant at Elle magazine. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Katie (Eckerberg) Burgess, BJ '02, is an account executive at Koroberi, a business-to-business agency in Chapel Hill, N.C. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Alfredo Flores, BJ '01, is a freelance music and entertainment reporter for various newspapers and magazines in the Washington, D.C., area. He has interviewed and reported on various Latin and pop culture artists ranging from Juanes and Manu Chao to Calle 13 and the Blue Man Group. Flores lives in Washington, D.C. Added: Feb. 14, 2008 Kristen (Hendricks) Miller, BJ '02, has been named associate art director of custom publishing at Cleveland Magazine in Cleveland, Ohio. She was most recently the design editor at Crain's Cleveland Business. Added: Feb. 12, 2008 Ashley (Swymeler) Roeber, BJ '02, is the assistant manager of media at Kohl's Department Stores in Menomonee Falls, Wis. Added: Feb. 12, 2008 Angela Martin-Giles, BJ '01, is a morning reporter and noon anchor for KVBC, the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas. Added: Jan. 17, 2008
Brooke Williams, BJ '01, is an investigative reporter on a computer-assisted reporting team at The San Diego Union-Tribune. In 2005, she was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for an investigation of the city's land holdings. Williams previously worked as a writer for the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., where she wrote a chapter in The Buying of the President, a best-selling book. She also was a writer for Windfalls of War, an investigation of federal contracts for work in Iraq and Afghanistan, which won a George Polk Award. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Ryan McClure, BJ '03, is an account supervisor in the public affairs practice group at Fleishman-Hillard in St. Louis. He is engaged to Beth Bishop, BJ '04. Added: Jan. 16, 2008 Daniel Bueckman, BJ '02, MA '03, is a media supervisor at MindShare in New York City. He works on the interactive sports and entertainment marketing part of the Sprint Nextel account. Updated: Jan. 16, 2008 Andrea Leptinsky, BJ '04, is features editor at BostonNOW in the heart of Beantown. "I couldn't have asked for a better job!" she said. Updated: Jan. 11, 2008 Ainslie (Geeser) Gordon, BJ '02, is the marketing coordinator for Sendouts in Clayton, Mo. She is married to Nick Gordon, BA '01. Added: Jan. 9, 2008
Christie Ly, BJ '00, was recently promoted to manager in the media practice department at Burson-Marsteller, a top global public relations and public affairs firm. She joined Burson-Marsteller Los Angeles in October 2006. Ly currently lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée, Bruce Feldman, a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine. Updated: Dec. 26, 2007 Mary de Villiers, BJ '00, is the international recruiter for Loyola University Chicago. Her work centers on traveling to various recruitment events around the world to promote the university to prospective undergraduate and graduate students. She also assists with strategic international admissions planning as well as the university's global relationship-building efforts. Updated: Dec. 26, 2007 Matt Dykstra, BJ '05, is the Miller Brewing Company sales manager of the state of Oklahoma. Added: Dec. 18, 2007
Allison (McLaughlin) Sit, BJ '01, is a public relations specialist for the American Academy of Dermatology in Schaumburg, Ill. Added: Dec. 14, 2007 Cameron Ross, BJ '06, is an assistant broadcast negotiator at MindShare Chicago. Added: Dec. 14, 2007 Heather Carlson, MA '04, is an area reporter for the Rochester (Minn.) Post-Bulletin newspaper. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Karl Grubaugh, MA '00, teaches government, economics and journalism and advises the award-winning student newspaper at Granite Bay High School outside Sacramento, Calif. A former assistant sports editor and sports editor at the Columbia Missourian, Grubaugh attended MU from 1989-1991 and finally finished his master's project nine years later (he said he doesn't recommend this approach). He also works an occasional shift as an on-call copy editor at the Sacramento Bee and does some freelance writing and editing. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Jennifer Gordon, BJ '01, is a national reporter with American Banker. Gordon, who interned with American Banker while participating in the Washington Program as a student, said it is interesting to return to the paper as a reporter. Updated: Dec. 13, 2007
Whitney (Pool) Richardson, BJ '04, BA '04, is deputy managing editor at KCI Communications, Inc., an investment newsletter publisher in Falls Church, Va. Added: Dec. 13, 2007
Ben Carmichael, BJ '02, is a senior account executive in the New York office of Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates. He is a member of the agency's medical team, focusing on investor relations and corporate communications. Updated: Dec. 5, 2007
Almitra Smith, BJ '06, has been named public relations coordinator for the American Red Cross of Greater Kansas City. Previously, she was the first evening Web producer for KSHB-TV 41, an NBC affiliate in Kansas City, Mo. Added: Nov. 14, 2007 Autumn Brewington, BJ '01, is assistant editorial page editor of The Washington Post. She started at The Post as a summer intern in 2001 and edited on the national and business copy desks before moving to the editorial department in January 2004. Brewington was promoted to op-ed editor in January 2007. Added: Oct. 25, 2007 Trin Zhuo, MA '02, is an MBA candidate at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as an associate producer for the public affairs program Washington Week on PBS before attending business school. Added: Oct. 22, 2007 Chris Stewart, BJ '02, is the director of Web communications at the University of Denver. Added: Oct. 16, 2007
Sara Louise Hiatt, BJ '03, is the art director at Baseball America magazine, a national publication based in Durham, N.C. Previously, she worked as a features designer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and as a staff writer and columnist for the Alibi, an alternative weekly in Albuquerque, N.M. Added: Oct. 12, 2007 Cameo Carlson, MA '00, is senior vice president of digital business development for the Universal Motown Records Group. She is the former manager of music programming and label relations for iTunes and a former rock and alternative programmer for AOL's radio products. Added: Oct. 12, 2007 Philip Yi, BJ '01, completed his military service and now works as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in Atlanta, Ga. Updated: Oct. 11, 2007 Ann Hynek, BJ '05, is an associate producer at FOX Business Channel. Added: Sept. 25, 2007
Katie McPartland, BJ '06, is an account executive at Datacore Marketing, LLC, in Kansas City. Added: Sept. 17, 2007 Rebecca Williams, BJ '04, is a content supervisor at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Miami. Currently working on Nike Running and Nike+, Williams has worked on the Miller Lite, Miller High Life, KNOW HIV/AIDS (a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and Viacom), Wolfsonian and EarthLink accounts in her more than three years with the agency. Added: Sept. 11, 2007 Laura (Donald) Hulett, BJ '00, is the marketing manager for STOA Architects in Pensacola, Fla. Added: Sept. 4, 2007 Natalie Swallow, BJ '07, works at SPRY, the ABC affiliate in Springfield, Mo. Added: Aug. 29, 2007 Liz (Underwood) Drouin, BJ '03, is an account executive at DraftFCB in Chicago. She works on the Herradura and El Jimador tequila brands. Added: Aug. 28, 2007 Stephen Hall, BJ '03, is the communication supervisor for the American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter, where he is responsible for media and government relations. Hall and his wife, Allison, have a two-year-old son, Jacob, and are expecting their second child in September 2007. Added: Aug. 27, 2007 Eric Chaney, BJ '02, is an editor with Whitman Books in Atlanta, Ga., working on their College Football Vault series. Added: Aug. 23, 2007
Laura Bruegge, BJ '02, has joined Vangel Marketing Communications as a public relations account executive. Vangel is headquartered in Columbia, Mo. Added: Aug. 20, 2007 Meg Graeff, BJ '06, relocated to the Boulder, Colo., office of Crispin Porter + Bogusky in June. An assistant content manager, she previously worked out of the agency's Miami office. Added: Aug. 17, 2007 Jamie Schmidt, BJ '00, and Jake Wagman, BJ '00, are engaged to be married. Schmidt is starting her second year in a doctoral program in American Studies at Saint Louis University, and Wagman is the city hall reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Added: Aug. 15, 2007 Erin Eschen Liford, BJ '04, is the search marketing lead and Web master at Scottrade, the leading branch-supported online investment firm based in St. Louis, Mo. Liford will manage the firm's paid and natural search marketing and serve as the manager and Web master of the firm's public Web sites, including Scottrade.com. She previously held multiple positions at Belleville, Ill.-based MonsterCommerce, a division of Network Solutions. Added: Aug. 15, 2007 Bryan Reber, PhD '01, was promoted to associate professor at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Added: Aug. 13, 2007 Anne (Bussman) Baggott, BJ '00, is an associate attorney at the Kansas City, Mo., office of Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice, L.L.C. She and her husband recently celebrated their son's first birthday. Added: July 31, 2007 Ryan Famuliner, BJ '07, is a general assignment reporter at WNDU-TV in South Bend, Ind. Added: July 31, 2007
Kristen Watkins, BJ '06, is a public affairs development trainee at The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Mich. Added: July 25, 2007 Julie Adelsberger, BJ '02, was promoted to senior manager of special projects at Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits manager in St. Louis, Mo. Updated: July 23, 2007 Sarah (Orlovick) Bueno, BJ '02, has joined the global advertising team for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Plano, Texas. She spent four years in account service at two of the top advertising agencies in Dallas, Texas, before switching to the client side. Added: July 23, 2007 Katie Beck, BJ '04, is a producer at WBBH NBC-2 in Fort Myers, Fla. Added: July 23, 2007 Jessica (Thornsberry) Hartman, BJ '06, is an account coordinator for Osborn & Barr Communications in St. Louis, Mo. Added: July 23, 2007
Jonathan Hall, BJ '00, is the publications adviser and a social studies teacher at McCluer North High School in Florissant, Mo. He married Jackie Pirtle, a former Mizzou cross country and track runner, on June 16, 2007. Added: July 23, 2007 Jessica Furst, BJ '03, graduated from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in May and has been hired as an associate with Foley & Lardner's Washington, D.C., office. Updated: July 23, 2007 Blaire (Leible) Garwitz, MA '06, is the associate editor of alumni periodicals at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Added: July 23, 2007 Sarah Jancich, BJ '00, is the director of Web development at Home Front Communications, a Washington, D.C.-based broadcast public relations firm. She earned a master's degree in electronic communications and publishing from University College London (United Kingdom) in September 2006. Updated: July 23, 2007 Joshua Kaufman, BJ '00, is an executive producer at Oak Brook Productions (CLTV) in Chicago, Ill., where he produces the weekly real estate show, HomesPlus. Added: July 23, 2007 Mora Thompson, BJ '03, works at Fleishman-Hillard, Inc. in the Kansas City, Mo. office. She completed her master's degree in public relations at Boston University. Previously, she worked at Bernstein-Rein Advertising in Kansas City, Mo. Added: July 23, 2007
Laine Harper, BJ '04, graduated in May 2007 with an MBA in marketing and international business from Loyola University Chicago. She is a project manager for creative services at Marsh, the world's leading insurance brokerage, in Chicago, Ill. Added: July 23, 2007 Eric Moyer, BJ '03, is the director of communications for the Atlantic Sun Conference, headquartered in Macon, Ga. Prior to joining the A-Sun Conference, Moyer worked in the research department at ESPN. Added: July 23, 2007
Brandt Merritt, BJ '06, is a sports copy editor/designer at The Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Fla. Added: July 18, 2007 Matthew Mitchell, BJ '07, is a hotdogger with Oscar Mayer based in Madison, Wis. Added: July 18, 2007 Ashley Douglas, BJ '06, is a brand manager/account executive for The Richards Group in Dallas, Texas. Added: July 18, 2007 Lauren Bacon, BJ '03, MA '04, will start her doctoral studies in the MU Department of Communication this fall. She will focus her research on nonprofits and will teach two courses. Added: July 17, 2007 Rachel Kaatmann, BJ '06, became engaged to Jeffrey Peine, BA '05 (political science) June 11 in front of Cinderella's Castle in Walt Disney World. She is a reporter for the Suburban Journals in St. Charles, Mo. Updated: July 17, 2007 Ashley Trent, BJ '07, is an associate editor at Home Decor Buyer magazine. She writes and edits departments and features, and she will scout for new home furnishings at gift and home shows in Atlanta, Ga., Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y., and High Point, N.C. Home Decor Buyer, published by Hoyt Publishing Co., Skokie, Ill., is the nation's largest-circulation business magazine covering home furnishings. Added: July 11, 2007 Beth Naser Werling, BJ '99, MA '04, and husband Jason welcomed Payton Porter Werling on Feb. 8, 2007. He joins his brother, William Vincent Werling, who was born Sept. 5, 2005. Added: July 11, 2007
Julian Pecquet, MA '03, a staff writer at the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat, is among 13 World Affairs Journalism Fellows, a program administered by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and sponsored by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, with additional funding from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Fellows will report from 15 countries for up to three weeks on issues that are vital to their local communities. Added: July 11, 2007 Jean Chung, MA '03, won the Care International Award for Humanitarian Reporting from Visa Pour L'Image Perpignan for a maternal mortality story from Afghanistan. She will be recognized at the organization's 19th annual International Festival of Photojournalism to be held Sept. 1-16 in Paris, France. Added: June 29, 2007
Ellada Gamreklidze, MA '04, is the project associate of the BBC World Service Trust Community Radio Project for Georgia. Added: June 13, 2007 Emily Givens, BJ '01, is a weekend evening anchor at KCCI Television in Des Moines, Iowa. Added: June 13, 2007 Andrew Barton, BJ '00, is the head of creative for Build-A-Bear Workshop, the original make-your-own stuffed animal retailer based in St. Louis, Mo. Added: June 13, 2007 After finishing an undergraduate degree in news editing and design and a master's degree in media management, Chris Heisel, BJ '01, MA '03, took a job with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in its online department. After several years and job changes there, he is now director of online development for the paper's Web sites. Added: June 13, 2007 Rajah Maples-Wallace, MA '03, an anchor/reporter at KHQA (CBS) in Quincy, Ill., won an award from the Iowa Broadcast News Association for a story she wrote, shot and produced about radon in homes. She also is a doctoral student at the Missouri School of Journalism. Added: June 8, 2007 Paige McDowell, BJ '03, is an attorney with the firm Goeldner & Walsh in Southaven, Miss., a suburb of Memphis, Tenn. Added: June 7, 2007
Jessica (Little) Pupillo, BJ '01, and her husband Sam announce the birth of their twin sons, Charles and Zachary, born in March 2006. Pupillo is a freelance writer in St. Louis, Mo. Added: June 7, 2007
Courtney (McCall) Jordan, BJ '00, is the director of communications, marketing and alumni relations at Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, Mo. She is married to Omar Jordan. Added: June 7, 2007 Angela (Beetsma) Allen, BJ '01, is the director of marketing for FBD Consulting, Inc., a regional benefits consulting company headquartered in Overland Park, Kan. She has been with FBD since graduating from Mizzou. Allen and her husband, who is also a Mizzou graduate, are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary this year. Added: June 5, 2007
Anya Litvak, MA '06, was a member of a team of writers that won a first-place Keystone Award for spot news coverage of the Amish killings in Lancaster, Pa. She has covered county government for the city's newspaper, New Era, since August 2006. The award is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. Added: May 25, 2007
Kristen Jump, BJ '07, is a reporter for the Rolla (Mo.) Daily News. Added: May 24, 2007
Kim Singletary, BJ '02, finished her Master's degree at Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, Technology program in 2006. Her thesis examined USA-specific images of American blackness found in German popular media and how those exported images are used to represent black Americans to the German populace. She is now assistant director of communications at the George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. Added: May 18, 2007
Lauren Whitney, BJ '07, joined KOMU News Today as a co-anchor in May following her graduation. She anchors the 5:30 a.m. weekday newscasts with Megan Murphy and Eric Aldrich. Whitney also oversees KOMU's Target 8 series, which airs every Tuesday night on KOMU News at 10 p.m. Added: May 9, 2007
Augustine (Gus) Pang, PhD '06, has accepted a faculty position at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, starting July 2007. Pang says that he will be joining Hao Xiaoming, MA '90, PhD '93, to assert the Missouri Journalism tradition in that part of the world. Added: May 2, 2007 Sarah Protzman, BJ '04, works for PARS International in New York City. Added: May 2, 2007
Kate Certain, BJ '04, is an account executive at Bernstein-Rein Advertising in Kansas City, Mo. Added: April 16, 2007
Josh Eiserike, MA '05, had a cartoon published in the book Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression, edited by David Wallis. Cartoonists featured in the book include Pulitzer Prize winners Mike Luckovich and Garry Trudeau, among others. As a graduate student, Eiserike won first place in the editorial cartooning category of the 2005 Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence Awards. Added: April 5, 2007
Memorial services were held Feb. 15 for Nichole Pingel, BJ '04, at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo. Added: March 19, 2007
Jennifer (Clark) Pinto, BJ '01, is an associate editor at Residential Lighting and Accessory Merchandising magazines, two Chicago-based trade publications for the home furnishings industry. Added: Feb. 27, 2007
Alexis Worley, BJ '05, works for Zipatoni, a marketing and advertising agency. Based in Chicago, Ill., Worley is on the Beam Global team, working with the brands Jim Beam, DeKuyper Liqueurs and Starbucks Liqueurs. Zipatoni Beam team members also include Missouri Journalism graduates Laura Zimmer, BJ '06, and Melissa Lampe, BJ '02. Worley has completed two marathons and is competing in Chicago's August triathlon. Last September, she spent three weeks in China on vacation. Added: Feb. 21, 2007
Megan Happ, BJ '01, is a senior copywriter at Ogilvy, a worldwide advertising and public relations agency. Happ is based in Chicago, Ill. Added: Feb. 20, 2007 Kari Schrage, MA '00, is the communication consultant for the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison. She and her husband, Bill, have two daughters, Sidney (5) and Jolie (1). Added: Feb. 20, 2007 Dan Purschwitz, BJ '04, won the 2006 John Murphy Award for Excellence in Copy Editing from the Texas Daily Newspaper Association. Purschwitz is a copy editor at the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram. Added: Feb. 20, 2007
Jeff Inglis, MA '00, is the managing editor of the Portland (Maine) Phoenix. Added: Feb. 15, 2007 Tony Reed, BJ '00, is the assistant creative services director at KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, N.M. Added: Feb. 15, 2007
Francie (Krantz) Williamson, BJ '00, is the page one editor at the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa. Her husband, Dan Williamson, is photo editor at the Iowa City Press-Citizen in Iowa City, Iowa. Added: Feb. 15, 2007
Theresa Coulter, BJ '03, is a copywriter for Digitas Inc., a New York-based advertising agency. Added: Feb. 14, 2007 Joshua Cobb, MA '03, is a page designer/copyeditor at The Examiner in Beaumont, Texas, and an adjunct journalism instructor at Lamar University. Added: Feb. 13, 2007
Lauren (Sydenstricker) Keith, BJ '01, is the morning anchor for KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Keith also has a weekly consumer report segment titled, "Does it Work Wednesday?" Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Marisa Fletcher, BJ '06, is the marketing coordinator at Walton Construction Company, LLC in Kansas City, Mo. Fletcher's responsibilities include proposal production, event planning, recruitment, production of ads/marketing materials and business development. Added: Feb. 13, 2007
Kelli Brown, BJ '02, is working at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pa., after six years at the Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal. Brown edits Blue Weekly, a tabloid section for the 18-34 demographic, in addition to serving as an assistant city editor and web producer. She said she is enjoying the change of pace after several years of work in design. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Craig Olsen, BJ '06, is attending the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Alonso Soto, BJ '05, is working as the sole English correspondent for Reuters in Ecuador. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Scott Serio, BJ '94, is a detective sergeant for the Baltimore (Md.) Police Department assigned to the Citywide Robbery Unit. Scott currently resides in Cecil County, Md., and is married with two daughters. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Shay Quillen, MA '01, is covering pop music for the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News. Previously, Quillen had been a copy editor for five years. "It's the best job I've had since they let me edit Vox," Quillen said, referencing the School's arts and entertainment weekly magazine. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Carly Kaufman, BJ '03, is a public relations account executive at Osborn & Barr Communications in St. Louis, Mo. Updated: Feb. 13, 2007 Suzanne Struglinski, BJ '00, married Wayne Broadfield on July 15, 2006. She works in the Washington Bureau of the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is currently covering former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney's presidential bid. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Libby Volgyes, BJ '04, is a photojournalist at the Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Fla. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Nicole (Sweeney) Etter, BJ '01, is a writer/editor for Marquette University's Office of Marketing and Communication in Milwaukee, Wis. Previously, Etter worked as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She and her husband live in Port Washington, Wis. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Geoff Gloeckler, BJ '02, is a staff editor at BusinessWeek magazine in New York, N.Y. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Lindsay Powers, BJ '04, is a reporter at Us Weekly in New York. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Brad. Added: Feb. 13, 2007 Matt Allen, BJ '06, is a reporter and researcher for the St. Louis (Mo.) Business Journal. Added: Feb. 12, 2007 Jason Forget, BJ '03, graduated in May 2006 from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication with a master's degree in communication and corporate reputation management. Forget said his journalism background proved useful in his graduate studies: "Bringing the J-School education and skills to the corporate communications field has really allowed me to strike a balance between both sides of communications." Added: Feb. 12, 2007 Lauren Schutte, BJ '05, is the assistant to the editor in chief at US Weekly magazine in New York. Added: Feb. 12, 2007 Kristen Hawkins, BJ '06, is an account coordinator for IDPgroup in Columbia, Mo. Added: Feb. 12, 2007
After earning a master's in teaching, Mary Dempsey, BJ '04, is now a high school journalism teacher and adviser of school publications at O'Fallon Township High School in O'Fallon, Ill. Added: Feb. 12, 2007 Citing the station's community service in the face of "personal danger and ultimately great personal loss," the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism recently honored WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Miss., with a 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia-University Award for broadcast journalism. Even after Hurricane Katrina tore a hole in the newsroom's ceiling, WLOX continued to report for more than 12 days, collaborating with radio stations, local newspapers and its sister stations to keep the residents of South Mississippi informed about the disaster. In addition to the duPont award, WLOX has earned a George Foster Peabody Award and a National Edward R. Murrow Award for its Katrina coverage. Several Missouri Journalism alumni are members of the WLOX news team (pictured left to right): Rayanne Weiss, BJ '85, special projects manager; Dave Vincent, BJ '73, news director/station manager; Krystal Allan, BJ '06, reporter/anchor; Natalie Campen, BJ '86, executive producer; Mark Pardee, BJ '80, information technology manager; and Brad Kessie, BJ '87, senior reporter. Added: Jan. 31, 2007
Megan Stock, BJ '04, is coordinator of Web site services and publications with the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City, Mo. Added: Jan. 19, 2007 Christie Smythe, BJ '05, is a business reporter with the Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, Mass. Added: Jan. 19, 2007
Nobelle de la Rosa, BJ '02, is a media planning supervisor on the SC Johnson account at Draft FCB (formerly Foote Cone & Belding) in Chicago, Ill. Added: Dec. 28, 2006 Jacki Langum, BJ '03, joined Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) in St. Louis as a staff attorney for the Homeless Legal Project. Added: Dec. 22, 2006 Mallory Brock, BJ '05, is a copy editor and page designer for Vance Publishing Corp. in Lenexa, Kan. As an undergraduate, Brock was one of twelve Missouri Journalism students to win a 2005 Dow Jones Editing Internship. [More] Added: Dec. 11, 2006
Timothy Dyer, BJ '03, is employed at GMR Marketing in Milwaukee, Wis., as an associate creative director. He works on various accounts for GMR, helping to generate ideas for a wide range of marketing programs across multiple media platforms. He said he enjoys his position, and he offered some advice for those looking at a career in creative services: "My best advice for a student who wants to be tomorrow's 'creative' is to get plugged in via networking. Linkedin (a Web-based networking tool) happens to be my favorite online method for networking. It is also important to become a pop culture follower. In today's world, ideas are being driven by technology and innovation. Literally, you can do whatever you can think of - prom partnerships, sponsorships, music, sports, charity, mobile, gaming, wireless - whatever it is, brands are jumping on-board to do it today, so you've got to be ahead of them." Dyer welcomes opportunities to discuss experiential marketing with others. Added: Nov. 22, 2006
Kristy Siegfried, MA '04, is a reporter for the United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). Based in South Africa, she is an HIV/AIDS journalist for its PlusNews service. She writes: "AIDS reporting can be tough, but it's not all doom and gloom. There are a lot of great projects and initiatives going on that I also try to cover. I visited four hospitals this past week in Malawi, and there is still so much work to be done in terms of trying to get treatment to everyone who needs it. It's hard to accept that someone should be denied the possibility of life because they happen to live in an area where treatment isn't yet available and that so many mothers still pass the virus to their babies because they can't get their hands on the one dose of anti-retrovirals needed to reduce the chances of transmission." Added: Nov. 16, 2006
Mark Geary, BJ '02, MA '04, won an EMMY in the interactivity category for a story about an Iowa couple living out the country, but running a million-dollar eBay DVD business. Mark worked with Web producers to develop a television news story featuring both on-air and online components. The combination of the news package and the special Web site earned him the EMMY award. Mark says, "I could never have won an award like this without the support and guidance I received at Mizzou. Now that I've worked in the 'real world' for a few years, I understand more than ever the value of my education at KOMU/MU. The University of Missouri has prepared me well!" Added: Oct. 31, 2006
An exhibit by photojournalist Melina Mara, BJ '00, was displayed at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Titled "Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate," the exhibit focused on the nation's most powerful women and the shifting leadership in Congress. Melissa Miller, BJ '00, is the director of the Spencer County Visitors Bureau in Santa Claus, Ind., effective April 17. She will coordinate marketing and public relations efforts to promote Spencer County as an overnight destination. Bill Reiter, BJ '00, and Laurie Mansfield, MA '00, were married in Irish Settlement, Iowa, on Oct. 8, 2005. The couple lives in Des Moines.
Jenny Sharp, BJ '01, was promoted to senior account executive at AbelsonTaylor in Chicago, the largest independent medical advertising agency in the world. Ann Molinaro, BJ '02, sends this update: "I'm finishing up my last year of law school at the University of Maryland. Then, after I graduate in May, I'll join my (by-then) husband in New York. Joe is completing his residency in Manhattan at the NYU/Hospital for Joint Diseases. Anne Kuhl, BJ '01, MA '02, is public relations manager with Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation in St. Louis. Brian Blank, BJ '03, is an associate producer with CNN in New York. Blank says, "Everything I know about journalism I learned at Mizzou. I got my job at CNN through the Mizzou Mafia, and I work with some proud Tigers here." Blank says the Missouri School of Journalism definitely has the greatest broadcast journalism program in the English-speaking world. Elise Hu, BJ '03, is a political reporter with KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas. Brooke Fisher Liu, MA '03, lives in Arlington, Va. Rachel Otto, BJ '03, is a media relations specialist at Saint Louis University's Medical Center in Missouri. Lauren Peters, BJ '03, lives in Richmond, Va. She is freelancing as an art director. Miun Seo, BJ '03, lives in the Kansas City metro area and works in public affairs/media relations for a national regulatory organization. She also is attending graduate school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City MA Program in English Language and Literature. Kimberly Watkins, BJ '03, is an associate editor with American Academy of Family Physicians in Leawood, Kan. Johnathan Woodward, BJ '03, graduated in 2006 with a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, Calif. Ana Connery, MA '04, is the editor of Florida Travel & Life magazine. The bimonthly publication reaches 125,000 readers with travel and lifestyle information about the state's various regions. Stephani Estes, BJ '04, is a media associate with Starcom Worldwide in Chicago, Ill. Bill McClain, BS '04 (Ag Journalism), is an account executive for Bader Rutter & Associates, Inc., in Brooksfield, Wis. Megan Moriarty, BJ '04, is an assistant account manager with Legacy Marketing Group in Mission, Kan. Chris Coplan, BJ '05, is a producer of WEEK TV in East Peoria, Ill. Lori Riddle Eberenz, MA '05, is an account manager with Guthrie/Mayes Public Relations, Louisville, Ky. Susan Gill, BJ '05, is a designer with The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. Laura Hobson, BJ '05, is an account coordinator for Avenue A/Razorfish in Seattle, Wash. The agency specializes in interactive marketing. Rebecca Marxer, BJ '04, MA '05, is communications manager with Global Diversity & Inclusion at Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Mich. Zakiya Annette Summers, BJ '05, is a news producer with WLBT-TV 3 in Jackson, Miss. Lindsey Unterberger, BJ '05, is an assistant producer with iVillage in New York. Rachel Dennis, BJ '06, is an associate media planner for Kelly, Scott and Madison in Chicago. Breck Fleming Gamel, BJ '02, MA '06 (Education), lives in Durham, N.C. Sadie Gurman, BJ '06, won two first place awards in the recent Kansas City Press Club's Heart of America awards. "Is It Money Well Spent?", published in the Joplin (Mo.) Globe, won in the investigative reporting category. "Single Mom, Rookie Cop," published in the Boone County (Mo.) Journal, won the profile category. Gurman, a newspaper journalism major, is now working as a reporter for the Rockford Register Star, an 80,000-circulation daily in Rockford, Ill. Lindsey Jamis, BJ '06 (Advertising), landed a job as a copywriter at VML in Kansas City. "I've been there since June 2006 and am loving it." Derek Schnell, BJ '06, is morning producer with KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City, Okla. 
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