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News Releases: April 2005
April 2005
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April 1, 2005: Missouri Design Professor Helps Newspaper Win Distinguished Design Award The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Rick Shaw's former employer, was the only American paper to be named one of the World's Best Designed Newspapers of 2005. The winners of this award excel in design, page design, photography, illustration and color use. The Courant has a circulation of about 250,000 and possesses an understated style of elegance. The paper also received the award in 2001. [More]
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April 4, 2005: J-School to Host National Summit for Technology In Curriculum The J-School and Apple will host 140 higher education and industry leaders at an interactive conference designed to make higher education more relevant for today's "digital generation" of students. The MU School of Journalism organized the conference as a founding member of the Apple Digital Campus initiative, a partnership that includes Stanford, Duke, Penn State and The Ohio State University. [More]
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April 4, 2005: Junior Magazine Student Chosen for ASME Internship Program Kate Schweitzer, a junior in the magazine sequence, has been selected for the summer 2005 American Society of Magazine Editors Internship Program at Reader's Digest in New York City. The internship is a ten-week program for college juniors who are placed with magazines in either New York or Washington, D.C. Last year, interns who won slots in this nationally-competitive program were placed at magazines such as National Geographic, Glamour, Business Week, People, Newsweek, Ladies Home Journal, Seventeen, In Style and Real Simple. [More]
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April 4, 2005: Journalism Students Win First, Eighth Place in Hearst Journalism Awards James Carlson and Kate Schweitzer have been named as winners in the 45th Annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program. Carlson's winning entry was an article he wrote for Vox Magazine titled, "Surviving the Guilt." The story was a profile of John Krogh, a survivor of Missouri's deadliest plane crash since 1973. Schweitzer's story was a feature on Peggy Kirkpatrick, the Central Missouri Food Bank director, and how she touches so many lives with her work. [More]
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April 12, 2005: USA TODAY Editor to Lead Discussion on First Amendment in Columbia Area citizens are invited to join Ken Paulson, BJ '75, in an upcoming town hall meeting. "Protecting Your Right to Know: The First Amendment" will begin at 7 p.m., April 19, in 204 Neff. Joining Paulson will be Gene Policinski, executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. Policinski will share results of the recent State of the First Amendment Survey, detailing American's views about the freedoms of speech, press and religion, along with the rights of petition and assembly. [More]
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April 15, 2005: Upcoming Conversation to Share Good News about Journalism American journalism, taken as a whole, is better than its critics admit, and an upcoming conversation will share the many ways that journalism is a force for good in the lives of individuals and the nation. Roberta Baskin, executive director of The Center for Public Integrity, will be the keynote luncheon speaker. She has won more than 75 journalism awards, including two duPont-Columbia University Awards and two George Foster Peabody Awards for her investigative reporting. [More]
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April 19, 2005: Missouri Counts 12 Winners, 15+ Awards, in Region 7 SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards Eleven students and KOMU were honored with the presentation of the 2004 Mark of Excellence Awards. The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) presents the awards annually to honor the best in student journalism. The Missouri School of Journalism received 19 awards spanning over 13 of the 45 categories for print, radio, television and online journalism. [More]
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April 20, 2005: First Sports Convergence Career Fair to Be Offered The Missouri School of Journalism, in conjunction with the University of Missouri-Columbia Athletic Department, is sponsoring the School's first Sports Convergence Career Fair April 20-21. Recruiters from ESPN, The Sporting News, the St. Louis Rams and Fox Sports Midwest, among others, will be on campus to recruit students for full-time job openings and internships. [More]
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April 22, 2005: 406 Graduates to Be Recognized at May Commencement The Missouri School of Journalism will recognize 406 graduates at its May commencement ceremonies that will begin at 5:30 p.m., Friday, May 13, in the Hearnes Center. Photojournalist Bill Eppridge, BJ '60, will be the graduation speaker. [More]
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April 22, 2005: Design of NewSunday Receives Award of Excellence The Columbia Missourian received an award of excellence for its redesign of the NewSunday section by the Society for News Design. The organization's 26th Annual Best of Newspaper Design competition honors excellence in design among newspapers of all sizes. [More]
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April 25, 2005: Family of 1910 Journalism Graduate Provides Gift to School The family of Robin Gould, BJ '10, has endowed a gift at the Missouri School of Journalism. Gould was a member of the School's first graduation class, the class vice president, president of University Players and a member of the Student Senate and Kappa Tau Alpha. [More]
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April 25, 2005: Missouri School of Journalism Grad Wins Hearst Photojournalism Award Lara Shipley, a recent photojournalism graduate from the Missouri School of Journalism, was awarded fifth place in the Picture Story/Series Competition of the 2004-2005 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Shipley, BJ '04, recently spent one month in Peru documenting the environmental and health crisis resulting from a metallurgic plant in a small Andean town, La Oroya. Last year, Shipley spent nine months in Costa Rica, where she interned as a photographer for a national paper, La Nacion. [More]
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April 25, 2005: John Schneller, Journalism Professor, Receives Kemper Award John Schneller, Missouri School of Journalism Assistant Professor and metro editor of the Columbia Missourian, has been awarded the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. Schneller is one of 10 professors on the MU Columbia campus who were chosen as this year's Kemper award recipients. Along with the prestigious recognition, the winners also receive a $10,000 gift to be used at their discretion. [More]
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