The Missouri Honor Medal

The Missouri Honor Medal

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Recent Missouri Medalists

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The wall-mounted exhibit in the student lounge in Neff Hall highlights winners of the Missouri Honor Medal. The touch-screen monitor is searchable by individual, year or organization.

The Missouri School of Journalism has awarded its Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism since 1930.

Medalists are selected by the faculty of the School on the basis of lifetime or superior achievement, for distinguished service performed in such lines of journalistic endeavor as shall be selected each year for consideration.

The annual awards shall not be restricted necessarily to any particular forms of journalistic service, nor will there be, necessarily, any designated number voted annually by the School. The award, or Medal of Honor, in each instance shall consist of a bronze medal, uniform in size, of appropriate design, and suitably inscribed with recipient's name. Awards shall be made only to those persons who, upon invitation, are present in person to receive them, or in the case of newspapers, periodicals, radio and television stations or other organizational entities, when such are represented in person by an official representative.

2009 Honor Medal Recipients

2009
Mazhar Abbas Defender of Press Freedom Pakistan	Rance Crain President Crain Communications Inc.	Doug Crews Executive Director Missouri Press Association
Bill Eppridge Photojournalist	Rod Gelatt Professor Emeritus Missouri School of Journalism	Deborah Howell Editor and Ombudsman
	Slate A Daily Online Magazine

2007 Honor Medal Recipients

Wayne Brasler Univ. of Chicago High School	Dirck Halstead Publisher Digital Journalist	Frances L. Lewine Associated Press CNN
Paula Madison V.P. Diversity NBC Universal	Russ Mitchell Anchor CBS News	Oh Yeon Ho Founder OhmyNews.com
Mary Beth Price Founder, Empower MediaMarketing	William C. Price CEO, Empower MediaMarketing	Ruth Reichl Editor in Chief, Gourmet

Photo Gallery Master Classes/Banquet     Oct. 9, 2007 MP3 Audio Opening Remarks 4.4MB, 11:48. Awards Ceremony 16.5MB, 44:16.

2006 Honor Medal Recipients

Clifford Christians Professor, Editor, Ethicist	Committee of Concerned Journalists	Chuck Curtis Chairman Valentine Radford	Reza Photojournalist Founder, AINA
Karen Brown Dunlap President Poynter Institute	Zubeida Jaffer Journalist, Editor, Activist	John Seigenthaler Journalist, Editor, Publisher

Photo Gallery Master Classes/Banquet Nov. 1, 2006

Click any image above to read an in-depth profile and/or download audio files. Left to Right: Clifford Christians, Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel, Chuck Curtis, Reza, Karen Brown Dunlap, Zubeida Jaffer and John Seigenthaler.

2005 Honor Medal Recipients

KHOU Defenders Watchdog Journalists Houston, Texas	Alejandro Junco de la Vega Publisher El Norte	Lisa Myers Correspondent NBC News	Carol H. Williams President/CEO Williams Advertising
	Angus "Mac" McDougall Photographer Author	Paul Steiger Managing Editor The Wall Street Journal

2004 Honor Medal Recipients

Dr. Leo Bogart Mass Media Sociologist Researcher, Teacher, Author	James Nachtwey Photojournalist Time Magazine	Dr. William H. Taft Missouri School of Journalism Author, Teacher, Historian	Ernest C. Withers Photographer Author, Civil Rights Activist
Anne Garrels NPR Foreign Correspondent Author, "Naked in Baghdad"	Gloria Steinem Writer, Editor, Activist Co-Founder Ms. Magazine	TEMPO Magazine, Jakarta Goenawan Mohamad Bambang Harymurti