Missouri Journalism Pride Points: 2005-06

• The School's sixth annual Media Career Fair will be held October 18-19 will bring together the formerly separate sports convergence, newspaper, and internship fairs. The fair has also been expanded to add broadcast and new media recruiters to the mix, a reflection of the convergence trend in the media world. [More]
  
  
• The School awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism to:
  
  
  • The KHOU Defenders, a nationally recognized investigative team in Houston, Texas;
  • Alejandro Junco de la Vega, publisher of Grupo Reforma, a seven-daily-newspaper publishing group in Mexico;
  • Angus McDougall, an innovator in photography, photo editing and photojournalism education;
  • Lisa Myers, an award-winning senior investigative correspondent for NBC News;
  • Paul Steiger, the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal;
  • Carol H. Williams, president, chief executive officer and chief creative officer of Carol H. Williams Advertising.
  
  
• The School offered a new undergraduate sequence in "media convergence" beginning in fall 2005 semester. Media convergence is defined as some form of cross-media cooperation, usually involving broadcast stations, print outlets and Internet sites. [More]
  
  
• eMprint was launched as a twice-weekly addition of the Columbia Missourian. The innovative technology combines the interactive qualities of the Internet in a reader- and advertising-friendly environment. eMprint was the first Fellows project of the Reynolds Journalism Institute.
  
  
• KBIA faculty and students won five Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, the most ever won by the station. [More]
  
  
• KOMU-TV received an Emmy for Overall News Excellence by the Mid-America Chapter of the National Television Arts and Sciences. [More]
  
  
• Missouri School of Journalism received a $1.7 million grant to establish a new home, expand scope for the National Freedom of Information Coalition. [More]
  
  
• The Center for Religion, the Professions and the Public was awarded a $1.5 million renewal grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The grant will allow the Center to continue studying issues in the professions related to America's increasing religious and cultural diversity. [More]
  
  
• The Knight Foundation awarded a $2.28 million grant to School and Committee of Concerned Journalists. The CCJ is a Washington, D.C.-based international consortium of journalists worried about the future of the profession. [More]
  
  
• Missouri SPJ Student Chapter received a $1,000 grant for Ethics Week. [More]
  
  
• Journalism faculty received numerous research grants, including those from the Missouri Foundation for Health, National Cancer Institute, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Institute on Disability.
  
  
• The School co-sponsored the Centennial Celebration of Edgar Snow's Birth in China. Snow was one of the first Western journalists to cover China and is credited with bridging the relationship between China and the U.S. Four Journalism faculty members participated in the activities.
  
  
• Faculty at the School and Moscow State University (MGU) in Russia taught a new media convergence course to 50 MGU students based on the School's new sequence in this area. [More]
  
  
• "Journalism Under Fire," a four-part program in conjunction with The New School in New York, brought together faculty, students, alumni, professionals and citizens to discuss news, gender, censorship and photojournalism issues in the journalism. [More]
  
  
• Twenty-two students participated in the Washington Program during the spring semester, interning at leading media outlets and other organizations: National Geographic's Traveler magazine, Embassy of Norway, International Center for Journalists, European Union, Center for Public Integrity, ABC, Washington Times, USA Today, Bracey Tucker Brown public relations, UPI, Orange County Register, among others.
  
  
• Missouri Journalism students participated in several trips designed to enhance their understanding of the industry, including a 10-day field trip to media outlets in top European cities and trips by advertising and magazine students to leading companies in New York. [More]
  
  
• The School recognized 177 graduates at its December 2005 commencement ceremonies and 416 graduates at its May 2006 commencement ceremonies.
  • Twenty-nine graduating seniors, or 25 percent, were recognized with Latin honors in December.
  • In May, 112 graduating seniors, or 32 percent of the class, graduated with Latin honors.

• The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute broke ground for its new facilities in September 2005. The Reynolds Journalism Institute is a new center that will be a nucleus of collaborative innovation, research and demonstration of new technologies and processes that improve journalism.
  
  
• Esther Thorson, the Institute's director of research, and Margaret Duffy, chair of the Ad sequence, completed a major research project on trends in newspaper readership for the Newspaper Association of America.
  
  
• eMprint, a revolutionary product that delivers print content with the speed and versatility of digital publishing, was used for several editions by Nieman Reports, a quarterly journalism magazine. Roger Fidler, the Institute's director of technology initiatives, developed eMprint.

• Missouri Journalism faculty and graduate students published and presented more than 100 papers, lectures and other seminars in the 2005-06 academic year.
  
  
• Faculty and students presented 31 papers at the 2006 International Communication Association conference in Germany. [More]
  • Missouri doctoral student Tayo Oyedeji was awarded the "Top ICA Student Paper" this year for his study, "The Relationship Between the Media Channel Credibility and Brand Equity of Media Outlets."
  • Another paper earned "Top Student Paper" honors in the Public Relations Division. "Circulation Sizes Tell Something About Public Relations: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Reflection of Public Relations in News," was submitted by Missouri journalism doctoral students Jeongsub Lim, Jiyang Bae, Hyo Jung Kim, Sun-A Kim.
  • Senior Katherine Roehrick and junior Rebecca Norris were some of the few undergraduates with papers accepted at the conference.
  
  
  
• Missouri doctoral students won four top papers awards at the 2005 Association for Education for Journalism and Mass Communication: [More]
  • Zengjun Peng, Mass Communication and Society Division.
  • Jensen Moore and Keith Greenwood, Advertising Division.
  • Fred Vultee, Visual Communication Division.
  • Scott Reinhardy, Newspaper Division.
  
  
  
• A paper by Glen Cameron and Yan Jin, PhD '05, won a top three paper award at the Ninth Annual International Public Relations Research Conference in Miami, Fla.
  
  
• Herman Chiu, PhD '04, received an award for the best paper on minorities at the American Journalism Historians Association. The paper was developed from his dissertation.
  
  
• Six students, Vox Magazine won AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) recognition in the Student Magazine Contest in the areas of profile writing, investigation and analysis and design. [More]

• Rick Shaw, an award-winning photojournalist and design editor, was named Director of Pictures of the Year International. Shaw teaches newspaper photo editing at the Missouri School of Journalism and also serves as the director of photography for the Columbia Missourian, the student-produced daily newspaper serving Columbia. [More]
  
  
• Steve Weinberg, a professor, author and freelance magazine writer, was recently named the 2006 recipient of the O.O. McIntyre Professorship for excellence in teaching. In his more than 25 years of service at the School, Weinberg has taught courses in investigative reporting, feature writing, arts journalism, criminal justice journalism, business journalism and the initial newswriting course. The professorship carries with it a $10,000 salary supplement for the next academic year. [More]
  
  
• Wayne Wanta will be the 2007 president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the largest professional organization of journalism educators in the world with more than 3,500 members. [More]
  
  
• Glen Cameron was named the 2006 21st Century Corps of Discovery lecturer, in recognition of his scholarly discoveries. [More]
  
  
• Stuart Loory is the recipient of the 2006 Provost Leadership in International Education Award.
  
  
• John Schneller was named the Educator of the Year at the 2005 conference of the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators in Kuwait City.
  
  
• John Schneller represented the School of Journalism in a seven-country project that brought 30 Arab journalism students or recent graduates to the United States for eight-week internships under the auspices of the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators.
  
  
• Stacey Woelfel received the Excellence in Education Award which recognizes 10 MU educators who support and value co-curricular learning. [More]
  
  
• Jackie Bell, a member of the photojournalism faculty, was accepted into the Publishing the Photographic Book, a workshop led by National Geographic photographers.
  
  
• Glen Cameron was invited to sit on the editorial boards of the Journal of Communication and the International Journal of Strategic Communication.
  
  
• Ed Lambeth is the author of the lead chapter in the book, Contemporary Media Ethics, Marquette Books, Spokane, Wash., 2006.
  
  
• John C. Merrill was elected to the University of Iowa School of Journalism's Hall of Fame for 2005. [More]
  
  
• Don Ranly was a finalist judge for the American Business Media Neal Awards, considered the "Pulitzer" award of the business-to-business press.
  
  
• Sarah Hill, KOMU anchor, reporter and adjunct professor, and Gary Grigsby, assistant professor and KOMU photographer, won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award in the documentary category for "Dealing with Disaster: Sarah's Stories from South Asia." [More]
  
  
• Professor Lee Wilkins and Renita Coleman, MA '97, PhD '01, received a $10,000 research grant from the Arthur W. Page Center and were named Page Legacy Scholars for the 2005-06 academic year. [More]
  
  
• Wayne Wanta, professor, is president-elect of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
  
  
• Brian Brooks was named to the 2005 Class of Apple Distinguished Educators. [More]
  
  
• Dean Mills was honored as the recipient of UM Pacheco Leadership Award. [More]

• Master's student Casey Parks won The New York Times "Win a Reporting Trip to Africa" contest. The contest attracted more than 3,800 entries. [More]
  
  
• Fourteen graduate students were among the 41 May 2006 graduates inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha, the honor society founded at the School in 1910. [More]
  
  
• Master's student Michelle Loyalka won the $12,000 O.O. McIntyre Postgraduate Writing Fellowship and will write a book to help Americans better understand China. [More]
  
  
• Graduate student Leslie Yingling won the Merck Science Journalism Award for her body of work in health and environmental reporting. She received a plaque and a $1,000 scholarship to attend a science journalism program at Rutger's University in New Brunswick, N.J.
  
  
• Graduate student Tamsyn Jones won a Rotary Foundation International Ambassadorial scholarship to study environmental journalism at the University of Tasmania.
  
  
• Master's student Adam Schreck has been recognized for his outstanding work in writing as the recipient of the 2006 Atwater Prize for in-depth reporting. [More]
  
  
• Graduate student Nell Lukosavich received a Green Chalk award for her teaching in the Spanish department. This award honors teaching assistants whose excellent work in the classroom benefits undergraduate students.
  
  
• Craig Weiland won two Mid-Missouri ADDY awards for multimedia movies he created for the MU Office of Research, one of which won a Best of Show for the Web category.
  
  
• Master's student Laura Pohl received a Fulbright grant in Journalism. She plans to photograph North Korean defectors adjusting to life in South Korea. [More]
  
  
• Master's students Robbie Ketcham and Reuben Stern received international recognition for excellence in visual journalism by the Society of News Design when they won Awards of Excellence in the 2005 Best of Newspaper Design category for information graphics. [More]
  
  
• Graduate student Michelle Loyalka was awarded a $2,000 Overseas Press Club Foundation scholarship for her essay describing the psychological impact of breakneck change and social upheaval that underlie the booming Chinese economy. [More]
  
  
• Marina Walker Guevara, MA '05, won the European Commission Lorenzo Natali Prize for her thesis work accounting the environmental and health threats posed by a St. Louis-based mining company, Doe Run Co., in a small Peruvian town in the Andes. [More]
  
  
• Master's student Ben Poston and two of his former colleagues from the Hamilton (Ohio) JournalNews won a 2006 Best of Cox Award and $1,000 prize for best deadline reporting on the Katrina coverage. [More]
  
  
• Master's students Yuliya Melnyk and Moushumi Anand, with faculty adviser María Len-Ríos, took first place in the Case Study Competition in Corporate Communications sponsored by the Arthur W. Page Society and the Institute for Public Relations. [More]
  
  
• Alexander Cohn uncovered thousands of old photo negatives taken in the Civil Rights era and turned it into his master's project at The Birmingham (Ala.) News in an eight-page special section titled, "Unseen. Unforgotten." His story has been making its way around the world via the Associated Press and CNN. [More]

The Missouri School of Journalism had yet another outstanding year in journalism awards competitions, winning approximately 100 awards in international, national and regional contests.

• Hayley Salvo, a senior radio-television journalism major, was named the 2006 Rob Sunde Fellow at the recent Radio and Television News Director's Association's annual conference. She will work alongside Harvey Nagler, CBS' vice president for radio news, during a two-week internship for CBS Radio News in New York City in August. [More]
  
  
• Matt Sokoloff is one of only 10 college students in the U.S. to receive a $10,000 Top Ten Scholarship awarded by the Scripps Howard Foundation. From Orlando, Fla., he is studying media convergence journalism. Missouri Journalism students have won this prestigious national award for five years in a row and six out of the eight years it's been given. [More]
  
  
• Rachael Bax, a senior advertising major, received a $1,500 scholarship that will allow her to implement creative concepts originally developed as part of work done in the course, "Creating and Implementing Effective Strategic Communications: A Hands-On Experience." Craig Ligibel, BJ '70, MA '71, retired president of VML, a worldwide advertising and marketing agency based in Kansas City, has taught the course for seven years. Bax will work with Rocheport, Mo., merchants to implement the ideas. [More]
  
  
• Fourteen undergraduate students were inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha, the seventh-oldest national honor society. KTA recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship. [More]
  
  
• Nine students earned five gold medals, two silver, two bronze medals in this year's Student Society of News Design awards, the college version of the Society for News Design's international competition. Entries numbered more than 800 from around the country.
  
  
• Missouri photojournalism students won Pictures of the Year International awards. Columbia Missourian won the "Award of Excellence in Newspaper Editing" for the work of more than 25 students, faculty and staff. Chris Detrick, BJ '05, placed second in both the "Sports Action" and "Sports Picture Story" categories for work he produced as a student.
  
  
• Nine students win awards in the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards Program, including:
  • James Carlson won the Heart National Writing Championship and a $5,000 scholarship.
  • Matt Telhelm was a national semi-finalist in the television news category and won a $1,000 scholarship.
  • Chris Detrick won 1st place in the photojournalism competition.
  • Andrea Ramey placed 5th and won a $600 scholarship in the television news competition.
  • Dusty Luthy placed 7th in the in-depth writing competition.
  • Dugan Arnett placed 8th in the personality/profile writing competition.
  • Travis Thompson tied for 17th in the broadcast features competition.
  • Marie Saavedra tied for 19th place in the broadcast features competition.
  • Elspeth Reeve tied for 20th place in the in-depth writing competition.
  
  
  
• Katie Roehrick was the first journalism student to present a research project at the 3rd annual University of Missouri System Undergraduate Research Day in Jefferson City. She was one of 20 from the Columbia campus who participated. [More]
  
  
• Columbia Missourian won 27 awards in the 2005 Better Newspapers Contest. [More]
  • The Missourian students garnered 10 first-place finishes, including "General Excellence," "Best Newspaper Design," "Best Front Page," "Best Sports Page," "Best Photo Package," "Best Feature Story" (Joel Currier), "Best Photo Illustration" (Josh Vince), "Best Sports Feature Story" (Kevin Druley), "Best Investigative Reporting" (Marina Walker) and "Best Business Story" (Ben Miller).
  
  
  
• Five broadcast news students were national finalists in the National Mark of Excellence awards competition. [More]
  
  
• Ten Missouri Journalism Students won Dow Jones Editing Internships. The students were among the 115 students selected from an applicant pool of more than 600. [More]
  
  
• Newspaper journalism student Diego Sorbara was named Best Intern the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund's National Editing Program. He was chosen as the 2006 Ed Trayes Scholar, an honor given to the best intern in intensive copy editing summer program. He received a $1,000 scholarship. [More]
  
  
• Hayley Salvo won the $2,500 President's Scholarship from the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation. [More]
  
  
• MU Journalism Student Diego Sorbara won a $10,000 Top Ten Scholarship from the Scripps Howard Foundation, an award given to the 10 most outstanding journalism students in the nation. [More]
  
  
• Nine Journalism students received the Mizzou '39 Outstanding Senior Award. [More]
  
  
• Six students, Vox Magazine won AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) recognition in the Student Magazine Contest in the areas of profile writing, investigation and analysis and design. [More]
  
  
• Journalism students' investigative work was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in November 2005, the result of research conducted by the first-ever criminal justice writing/reporting class at the Missouri School of Journalism in the spring of 2005. [More]