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News Releases: March 2005
March 2005
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March 1, 2005: Missouri Advertising Students Visit the Big Apple More than 20 students from the Missouri School of Journalism traveled to New York City to meet and learn from the representatives of some of the nation's top strategic communications agencies and other entities. The group visited seven offices in all: Unilever Cosmetics International in-house agency, Edelman public relations, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Y&R, Global Advertising Strategies, Mediacom and BBDO. [More]
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March 1, 2005: Walker Guevara Wins Prestigious OPC Foundation Award Marina Walker Guevara, a graduate student at the Missouri School of Journalism, was recently awarded a $2,000 Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarship at the Foundation's annual Scholarship Luncheon held at the Yale Club in New York City. Walker Guevara was among 12 selected by a panel of leading journalists from a pool of more than 175 applicants from 60 different colleges and universities. [More]
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March 8, 2005: Magazine Students Visit 16 New York Magazines Magazine Club students from the Missouri School of Journalism got a feel for winter in New York and life at a major magazine when 29 members visited Manhattan for their annual trip. The group visited 16 national, premier magazines. At each visit, they received a tour of the offices and a Q&A session with editors. [More]
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March 10, 2005: Two Missouri Journalism Students Win Hearst Journalism Award Brandon Hoops and Sean McDonnell are among the top 20 winners in the college Sports Writing category of the Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program. Hoops received sixth place and a $500 scholarship for his story, "Kicking Cares Away." The article in the Columbia Missourian profiled an adult kickball league in Columbia, Mo. McDonnell won eighth place and a $500 scholarship. McDonnell's article, "A Sunday Struggle," was about a local high school lacrosse team captain who chose to participate in Sunday lacrosse games, even though it conflicted with his Mormon beliefs and his parents' wishes. [More]
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March 10, 2005: KBIA Ranked Second in Nation; Provides Professional Training for Students KBIA-91.3 FM, the University of Missouri's public radio station, is ranked #2 out of nearly 800 public radio stations nationwide. The station provides students at Missouri's School of Journalism the opportunity to work at one of the top-rated public radio stations in the country. Station rankings are based on current Arbitron ratings, which are produced by calculating the actual number of listeners based on the population as a whole. [More]
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March 15, 2005: Broadcast Lab Dedicated in Memory of Ron Naeger Journalism faculty, staff and students recently honored Ron Naeger by dedicating the Gannett Hall broadcast laboratory in his name. Naeger, a former assistant professor of broadcast, died unexpectedly of heart disease on March 9, 1999, at the age of 48. A portrait of Naeger, a plaque and an American flag now hang at the entrance of the lab that bears his name. Family members, friends and colleagues shared personal memories of him during an unveiling ceremony. [More]
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March 15, 2005: Students Learn the Importance of Acquiring New Business "How to Pitch New Business" was the focus of a recent one-hour Strategic Communications course at the Missouri School of Journalism. Sandy Kornberg, BJ '64, and Gary Burandt, BJ '66, served as the visiting professors. During the course of a week, students learned that pitching new business is a process where relationships are key, and that pitching is not simply a presentation given to prospective clients. [More]
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March 15, 2005: Overholser Authors Book Chapter on Journalists and Corporate Scandals Geneva Overholser, the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, has authored a chapter in the new book, "Restoring Trust in American Business," published by MIT Press. A project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the book focuses on the recent wave of corporate scandals and examines the responsibilities of various professionals as "gatekeepers." [More]
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March 24, 2005: Professor Emeritus John Merrill Elected to Iowa Hall of Fame John C. Merrill, professor emeritus at the Missouri School of Journalism, has been elected to the University of Iowa School of Journalism's Hall of Fame for 2005. A Distinguished Alumnus of Iowa, Merrill will speak at the Fourth Estate banquet on April 1 in Iowa City. He received the prestigious Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1996. Merrill, along with the late Bill Rivers of Stanford University, were the first members of the Journalism Hall of Fame at Louisiana State University in 1975. [More]
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March 28, 2005: Parents' Communication Styles Influence Children's Smoking Habits, Journalism Researchers Find The American Legacy Foundation recently reported that while the prevalence of smoking among high school students has decreased significantly in the past few years, this trend does not hold for middle school youth. Reports show that 10 percent of this age group has smoked at least one cigarette in the past 30 days. A new study by researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia's Health Communication Research Center found that parents' communication styles significantly influence whether their teenager stops smoking. [More]
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March 29, 2005: Journalism Students Win Top Prize in Arthur W. Page Competition A student team from the Missouri School of Journalism recently took first place in the 2005 Case Study Competition in Corporate Communications sponsored by the Arthur W. Page Society and the Institute for Public Relations. The team, consisting of students Megan Perry, Laura Chia, Meredith Stevens, Rupa Rajagopalan and instructor Yan Jin, took top honors among 20 entries in the communications/journalism schools competition, beating out runners-up Brigham Young and Michigan State. [More]
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March 31, 2005: Journalism Students Visit with Iraqi Journalists about Freedom of the Press Some Missouri School of Journalism students got the rare opportunity to converse with journalists from Iraq during a recent 80-minute live satellite video conference. The six journalists, all from Baghdad newspapers, were part of a business journalism training session in Amman, Jordan, led by Marty Steffens, the SABEW Chair in Business and Financial Reporting. [More]
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March 31, 2005: Falun Gong Movement Core of Talk The struggle between the Chinese government and the spiritual practice of Falun Gong highlights how weak the Chinese government really is, 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner Ian Johnson said Wednesday at Jesse Wrench Auditorium in Memorial Union. Johnson's lecture, which focused on his award-winning coverage of the Falun Gong movement in Beijing, was part of the Paine Lectures sponsored by the MU Department of Religious Studies, the School of Journalism, the Asian Affairs Center and the Center for Religion, the Professions and the Public. [More]
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