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News Releases: December 2005
December 2005
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Dec. 2, 2005: MA Student Named 2005 David Kaplan Memorial Fellow at ABC News in D.C. Master's student Theresa Wieberg is the 2005 recipient of the David Kaplan Memorial Fellowship, which is awarded each year to one Missouri graduate student who has an interest in broadcast producing. As a Kaplan Fellow, Wieberg will receive a $10,000 stipend plus a paid position in the ABC network's Washington Bureau while she completes her master's project. [More]
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Dec. 6, 2005: 117 Graduates Will Be Recognized at Fall Commencement Ceremonies The Missouri School of Journalism will recognize 117 graduates at its fall commencement ceremonies that will be held 4:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 16, at the Hearnes Center. Twenty-nine graduating seniors will be recognized with Latin honors. Joyce King Thomas, BJ '78, will be the graduation speaker. She is the chief creative officer of McCann Erickson's flagship New York office, overseeing a department of more than 100 writers and art directors. [More]
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Dec. 7, 2005: Missouri Journalism Graduate Gets ABC Anchor Spot Missouri School of Journalism graduate Elizabeth Vargas was picked Monday as one of two anchors to replace Peter Jennings on ABC's evening newscast, "World News Tonight." Vargas, 43, will join Bob Woodruff to replace Jennings, who died of lung cancer in early Aug.. The announcement makes the duo the first co-anchors of an evening newscast since "CBS Evening News" was hosted by Dan Rather and Connie Chung. Vargas will remain co-host of ABC's "20/20." [More]
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Dec. 8, 2005: Recent Alumnus Wins First Place Hearst Photojournalism Award Chris Detrick, a 2005 photojournalism graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, won first place in the photojournalism competition of the 2005-06 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. This was the first Hearst photojournalism competition of this academic year, entered by 74 students from 43 journalism schools nationwide. [More]
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Dec. 13, 2005: Research Reveals Slower-Paced, Non-Attack Political Ads Are Most Attention-Getting The most attention-getting and memorable political advertisements are those that use fewer camera angles and scene changes and do not attack other candidates, according to research conducted at the Missouri School of Journalism. Senior Katherine Roehrick and Paul Bolls, her faculty adviser on the project, reviewed more than 70 political ads before selecting 12 to be evaluated by college students of voting age. [More]
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Dec. 14, 2005: MU Center Awarded $1.5 Million Renewal Grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts The Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public at the University of Missouri-Columbia has received 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. The Center was established in 2003 with a $1.4-million Pew Trusts grant. [More]
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Dec. 15, 2005: iLife, Camera, Action! Armed with laptops and video cameras, hundreds of journalism students displayed their movie-making talents at the 2005 Freshman iLife Challenge awards ceremony. Comedy Wars emceed the event, which was co-sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism, Apple Computer and TigerTech, the campus computer store. The School of Journalism designed the competition, now in its second year, to introduce freshmen to the new digital technologies they can expect to use in their journalism careers. [More]
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Dec. 23, 2005: New Viewbook about Missouri Journalism Now Available A new viewbook that shows how the Missouri School of Journalism trains future journalists is now available to prospective students, alumni and other interested persons. The viewbook depicts students learning off-campus through study abroad programs and those offered in New York and Washington, D.C. The viewbook also offers a glimpse of where a Missouri Journalism education can take its alumni by featuring several of School's successful alumni working in different areas of the profession. [More]
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