305 Lee Hills Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200
Phone: 573-884-2103
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JOHN SCHNELLER has worked as a journalist in Columbia since shortly after arriving at the University of Missouri in 1973 to attend the School of Journalism. He was a correspondent for the Kansas City Star and Times before signing on as a reporter at the Columbia Daily Tribune. At the Tribune, he received a Scripps-Howard Foundation Distinguished Journalism Citation for outstanding reporting in the field of conservation as well as honorable mention from the Washington Journalism Center in competition for the Thomas L. Stokes Award for the best daily newspaper reporting on protection of the environment. He was city editor at the Tribune from 1987-1999 and special projects editor for a year before leaving to become an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and metro editor at the Columbia Missourian.
