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January 2011
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Life at the J-School
There Is Always Something Going On
Edited by Nathan Allen
Master's Student
There is always something going at the School, from learning about awards our students have won and new research findings to students traveling to professional conferences and hosting outstanding guest speakers. Just in October, for example, journalism senior Joshua Barone was named the best intern in the Dow Jones News Fund's summer copy editing program; members of the Society of Professional Journalists attended the national convention in Las Vegas; and two graduate students participated in the 2010 European Union press trip in Brussels, Belgium.
But life at the School also includes covering community stories for our media outlets, brainstorming great campaign ideas for clients and getting together with J-friends at socials.
Captured in this feature is a snapshot of life at the Missouri School of Journalism: Highlights of the semester, an on-the-ground review of activities and what the month looked like from the webcam. Enjoy!
Oct. 1
Josh Barone
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- Senior Joshua Barone is named the Edward Trayes Scholar, an honor given to the best intern in the Dow Jones News Fund's intensive summer copy editing program. [More]
Oct. 1: J-School Professor Jim Sterling arrives for the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival.
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- Jana Shortal, BJ '99, a reporter at KARE 11 in Minneapolis, visits the Broadcast News II lab to critique student work.
- KOMU-TV and Columbia Missourian sports reporters cover mid-Missouri's high school football games for the Friday Night Fever show.
- Faculty approve a new topics course for the spring 2011 semester, "Magazines across Platforms," which will explore content creation and production for Vox magazine, print-to-Web interaction, online-only publications, mobile initiatives and new iPad innovation.
- Students in Associate Professor Cynthia Frisby's principles of strategic communication course share ads and discuss how they relate to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
- Study abroad applications for the spring semester and winter intercession are due.
- Graduating seniors receive their degree audit reports back from the journalism academic advising office today.
Oct. 2
Oct. 2: Freshmen Sammie Hill, Dani Kass and Kate Grumke of Honors Journalism FIG C take a quick break while working on their project for the Fresh Films Contest.
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Oct. 2: Beautiful day outside, empty seats inside.
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- Right outside the J-School, you can hear live music from the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival. Columbia Missourian, KOMU and Vox reporters are live on the scene and posting updates to the Web and neighborhood blogs, and Twitter (tag: #IHeartBBQ) updates.
Oct. 3
- Kinetic Marketing, a strategic communication capstone group, begins to work on a creative brief for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Oct. 4
- A journalist from Pakistan addresses students in the Global Journalist staff class.
- Master's student Chris Canipe begins collecting results for his survey gauging reactions of participants to election-themed stories.
- New faculty members Amy Simons and Mike Jenner join Randy Smith to lead a brown bag seminar titled "What Are Employers Looking For?"
Oct. 5
Oct. 5: Molly Paskal (left) and Assistant Professor Stephanie Padgett in the Mojo Ad office.
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- Students meet with Kris Rockwell and Eric Brown of Hybrid Learning to discuss "Peacemaker" and "Play the News," games that allow users to play roles of those in the news.
- Students join RJI Fellow Anne Derryberry during her weekly game salon, a way to brainstorm ways the technology can and will be used to improve learning and journalism.
- Members of Mojo Ad encourage the public relations writing class to apply for next semester's open positions.
- Students from the MU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) attend the group's convention in Las Vegas.
- It's quiet at 8:30 a.m. in Neff Lounge as seven students study or sleep.
- Agricultural journalism senior Katie Maupin and Osborn & Barr recruiter Laura Schafer visit during the job fair.
Oct. 6
Oct. 6: Seniors Adriana Orsini, Em Cashman and Emily Haw work on their presentation.
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Oct. 6: The J-Café is a great gathering place for students.
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Oct. 6: Student Anna Gaynor on a bench in front of Neff Hall.
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Oct. 7: Students catch up on reading outside the Missouri School of Journalism.
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Oct. 8: NABJ students hold a bake sale to fund their media tour.
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- Academic adviser Martha Pickens holds an information session about the School's BJ/MA program.
- Magazine journalism faculty, including Jan Colbert, Berkley Hudson, Michael Grinfeld, Andrea Heiss, Jennifer Rowe and Amanda Hinnant, meet with magazine graduate students to discuss spring semester course offerings.
- A meeting for the J-School study abroad program in China is held in Tucker Forum.
Oct. 7
Oct. 7: Students prepare stories for Missouri Digital News.
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- Representatives from the Missouri School of Journalism, MU's Department of Political Science, the LGBTQ Resource Center, SHAPE Resource Center, MU Counseling Center and MU Department of Residential Life gather for a panel discussion regarding the suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi.
- Michael Sewall, BJ '10, wins the David W. Miller Award for Young Journalists from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Assistant Professor Greeley Kyle reviews students' stories during today's Broadcast II class.
- Radio-television and convergence journalism students polish their stories for Missouri Digital News, which covers government and political issues from the Jefferson City statehouse bureau.
- Convergence journalism students work on this week's packages in the Futures Lab.
- Jeremy Harlan, BJ '99, a videographer with CNN Washington, critiques student work in Broadcast II.
Oct. 8
- The J-School honors Mizzou Alumni Association Faculty-Alumni Award winners Mike McKean, BJ '79, Ken Paulson, BJ '75, Tom Schultz, BJ '56 and John Walsh, MA '69, at a luncheon. [More]
- Alumni from the broadcast news class of 1975 gather for a reunion. Those attending include a network correspondent, a top TV talent agent, a TV station manager and a hospital communications manager.
Oct. 9
- Journalism graduate students tailgate on the northwest corner of Stankowski Field, known as "The Jungle," prior to Mizzou's Big 12 opener against Colorado.
- Students create print ad concepts for the Nissan Leaf and BREE illuminated handbags for Assistant Professor Frank Corridori's strategic design and visuals class.
Oct. 10
- Beryllium, one of the Mojo Ad teams, meets at It's a Grind coffee shop to discuss its media objectives and strategies.
- Magazine grad students meet in small groups to prepare questions for a focus group on magazine readership.
- Master's students Brian Jarvis and Rebecca Wolfson arrive in Brussels, Belgium, for the 2010 European Union press trip for U.S journalism students. [More]
Oct. 11
- Patch.com, a community-specific news and information platform, presents a brown-bag seminar in Tucker Forum. [More]
- Salem Fekadu, a journalism staff member, begins hosting the show "Africa Talks" on Columbia Access Television.
- Mindfire, a student crowdsourcing site sponsored by Ketchum, selects 25 journalism students.
Oct. 12: Ashley Douglas, Chelsea Reynolds, Ettie Berneking, Katy Bergen, Dalene Rovenstine, and Taylor Combs hold pumpkins at the Journalism Graduate Student Association Halloween party.
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Oct. 12
- Journalism academic advisers visit with freshmen about early registration.
- Students cover and attend the "Food, Fuel and Society: Stories from a Changing Landscape" interactive forum. [More]
- Mojo Ad holds an information session for students interested in applying for spring staff positions.
- Graduate students in Professor Glenn Leshner's quantitative research methods class take their first exam. The midterm covers theorizing, sampling, surveys, experiments, content analysis, reliability and validity.
Oct. 13
- Students who have done internships at magazines, blogs and websites share advice over pizza at the monthly meeting of the Magazine Club.
- Journalism Graduate Student Association officers sell T-shirts for $20 in RJI. The shirts read "Mizzou Mafia: Networking at Its Finest."
- Missouri School of Journalism co-sponsors "Careers for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders," a presentation by Temple Grandin, named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people.
- Justin Giles of J-Net speaks about digital-streaming video at the brown-bag seminar in Tucker Forum.
Oct. 16: Michelle Pais puts together her portfolio for the magazine design capstone course.
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Oct. 16: Chelsea Donohoe uses the Internet to find local story ideas for her first KOMU live-shot.
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Oct. 16: Dieter Kurtenbach travels to College Station, Texas, to cover the MU game against Texas A&M.
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Oct. 14
- Three radio-television journalism students produce stories at U.S. Army base Fort Leonard Wood.
- Students in Associate Professor Jennifer Rowe's magazine editing class turn in an assignment in which they are required to identify and parse 149 verbs.
- Strategic communication students get to know their professors better during the AAF Mizzou "Pizza with the Professors" event.
- Several professors meet in the J-Café to discuss Mizzou Advantage funding.
Oct. 15
- Graduate student Kyle Deas reports on the final debate between U.S. Senate candidates Roy Blunt and Robin Carnahan.
Oct. 16
- Radio-television journalism senior Hillary Mullin covers the MU Physical Therapy 5K/10K run.
- Radio-television journalism master's student Brian Johnson films and streams live on the Internet an on-campus event for the School of Education.
- Master's student Nathan Allen wins the MU School of Health Professions' 10K race. Spencer Engel, BJ '10, places second.
Oct. 17
- Print and digital news senior Cherish Grimm reports for the Missourian on a Halloween party for pets.
Oct. 18
- The CIA discusses careers with students in Tucker Forum.
- Sportswriter Dave Kindred shares ways to find great stories and keep sports reporting fresh.
Oct. 19
- Students in Assistant Professor Amanda Hinnant's class, The Magazine: Then and Now, conduct their first focus group.
Oct. 20: Students relax around the columns prior to ESPN's College GameDay.
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Oct. 21
- Roger Fidler, RJI director of digital programs, hosts an iPad users group meeting the third Thursday of each month.
- The MU chapter of the American Copy Editors Society elects officers for the 2010-2011 school year during its October meeting.
- YayaMediaNow.com, a website that focuses on young adult marketing, holds it weekly meeting at the Technology Testing Center.
Oct. 22
- A large crowd of alumni and students gather for the 7th annual "Real-World Lunch," a get-together held the Friday before Homecoming and organized by Associate Professor Jennifer Reeves.
- Adobe representatives judge student presentations from the Omniture Web Analytics national competition.
Oct. 24: Freshman Kylee Mattoon works on a paper for the career explorations class.
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Oct. 24: The Frank Lee Martin Journalism Library is a great place to study on the journalism school campus.
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Oct. 24: Rachel Rice writes a paper for her convergence class.
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Oct. 23
- Justin Collins, BJ '98, and Lisa Heiman Collins, BJ '99, bring their first child to her first Mizzou Homecoming.
- Radio-television journalism senior Alexandrya Holley is named the 2010 Homecoming Queen. The Top 10 Homecoming Royalty includes five other journalism majors: Shannon Whitney (convergence), Kelsey Mirando (magazine), Jacquelinne Mejia (convergence), Alex Ruppenthal (print and digital news) and Chris Spurlock (convergence).
Oct. 25: Sophomores Zach Murdock, Audrey Raymond, and Bridget Kapp shoot their convergence class project.
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Oct. 25: Justin Cole and Dan James work on their ads for strategic design and visuals.
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Oct. 26: Faculty members from Chongqing University tour RJI and the School.
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Oct. 26: Students prepare to enter Fisher Auditorium for their cross-cultural journalism class.
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Oct. 26: Students enjoy the warmth of late-October sunlight in the hallway of Gannett.
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Oct. 25
- KBIA radio managers meet with community leaders in Kirksville to extend the University's award-winning radio journalism to another city.
- Students from all journalism emphasis areas attend a career services presentation in Tucker Forum.
Oct. 27
- Students talk about helping with public relations for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics world championship.
- Columbia Missourian students discuss where the candidates stand on higher education issues as part of their coverage on the upcoming election.
- Former faculty member Holly Edgell, now of Patch.com, presents "Digital Day: Changes in Journalism and What They Mean to You."
Oct. 27: Seniors meet in the J-Café to write a creative brief.
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Oct. 27: Students discuss their project about Amish teens.
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Oct. 28
- Journalism students participate in the journalism job fair at Memorial Union.
- The Missouri Honor Medal is awarded to five leading journalists and an advertising executive, as well as two international organizations dedicated to press freedom.
- Master Class: "Investigating Narcotics Trafficking," Adela Navarro, ZETA Weekly Newspaper.
- Master Class: "Lessons from a Life in News," Sandy Rowe, editor.
- Master Class: "Drinking for Fun and Profit," Dorothy J. Gaiter, wine columnist and author.
- Master Class: "The Media and Business: Friend or Foe," Myron Kandel, financial journalist.
- Master Class: "Earth Vision Trust and Extreme Ice Survey: Using Art and Science to Inspire Positive Social Action," James Balog, founder and director.
- Master Class: "The Little Engine Company That Could: Building the Honda Brand," Larry Postaer, BJ '59, co-chairman, Rubin Postaer & Associates.
- Master Class: "Telling Stories under Crossing Fire in Colombia," Ignacio Gomez, Foundation for the Freedom of the Press.
- Master Class: "From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Re-inventing Success in Media and Life," Cathleen Black, chairman, Hearst Magazines.
Adela
Navarro, ZETA
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Sandy
Rowe
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Dorothy J.
Gaiter
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Myron
Kandel
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James
Balog
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Larry
Postaer
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Ignacio
Gomez, FLiP
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Cathleen
Black
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Oct. 29
- Global Journalist host Byron Scott posts highlights of the program on Mexican drug cartels on the Columbia Missourian's website.
Oct. 30
- Master's student Rebecca Wolfson throws a Halloween costume party, complete with a bonfire, for graduate students.
- KOMU reporters tweet updates throughout the Missouri-Nebraska football game.
- Ten journalists and journalism educators from Croatia and Serbia arrive on the J-School campus to study the American mid-term election news coverage and to discuss how to teach and invigorate young journalists in their countries.
- Doctoral student Mark Poepsel conducts a survey to examine media use and political knowledge among the attendees at the Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington, D.C.
- Vox reporter Dustin Renwick covers a gathering of more than 700 people in costume attempting to break the record for the "most people dressed as superheroes" category.
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