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News Releases: 2005 Calendar Year
December 2005
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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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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November 2005
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Nov. 29, 2005: KOMU-TV Receives Emmy for Overall News Excellence The Mid-America Chapter of the National Television Arts and Sciences recently awarded a 2005 Emmy for Overall News Excellence to KOMU, the only university-owned commercial television station in the United States that uses its newsroom as a working lab for students. Jennifer Reeves and Randy Reeves, both assistant professors at the Missouri School of Journalism, accepted the award for the station at the awards ceremony in St. Louis. [More]
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Nov. 9, 2005: Broadcast News Student Crowned MU Homecoming Queen Alisha Johnson, a senior broadcast news student from Memphis, Tenn., was crowned the 2005 University of Missouri Homecoming Queen in a half-time ceremony at Faurot Field. An active student leader, Johnson participates in the National Association of Black Journalists, the Legion of Black Collegians, Summer Welcome, United Ambassadors and others. Johnson also produces three newscasts a week at KOMU TV-8, the only University-owned commercial television station that uses its newsroom as a working laboratory for students. [More]
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Nov. 8, 2005: Journalism Students' Work Published in St. Louis Post-Dispatch A 23-year-old murder case, inconsistent witness testimony and a three-year feud between the daughters of the victim and the convicted murderer - those were the facts presented to the first-ever criminal justice writing/reporting class at the Missouri School of Journalism in the spring of 2005. While it may seem unusual for a metropolitan newspaper to print student-assisted work, it doesn't surprise the cooperating editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. [More]
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Nov. 8, 2005: Paul Steiger to Receive Missouri Honor Medal on Nov. 14 Paul Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and vice president of Dow Jones & Company, will receive the third Missouri Honor Medal presented this year on Monday, Nov. 14, at the Missouri School of Journalism. Steiger will teach a Master Class in Newspaper Editing from 11-11:50 a.m. in 278 Gannett. The medal will be awarded during a presentation at a luncheon following the class in the Reynolds Alumni Center on the University of Missouri campus. [More]
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Nov. 2, 2005: Walter Williams Scholar Blogs for AOL's Red Service David Ubben, a Missouri School of Journalism freshman and a Walter Williams Scholar, dreams of becoming a great sports writer. In the meantime, he is a well-known blogger on the AOL® Red™ service for teens. Ubben is one of only six students in the United States to be featured on this first-of-its-kind reality series. Titled "Project: Freshman," the service includes videos, confessionals and daily blogs of the cast members at college. [More]
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October 2005
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Oct. 31, 2005: Journalism Students Impress Newspaper Recruiters at Career Fair The 2005 Newspaper Fair was held Oct. 20 at the Missouri School of Journalism. More than 100 students interviewed for internships and job positions at newspapers across the United States. In addition to opportunities for Journalism students to mingle informally with recruiters during a reception the evening before and a luncheon during the day of the fair, this year's activities included a narrative workshop with Bryan Gruley, Chicago Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, as well as a diversity discussion with recruiters hosted by the newly-formed Asian American Student Journalists Association. [More]
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Oct. 27, 2005: Columbia Missourian Wins 27 Awards in 2005 Better Newspapers Contest The Columbia Missourian, the Missouri School of Journalism's working newspaper lab for students in news-editorial, design, information graphics and photojournalism, took home 27 awards in the 2005 Missouri Press Foundation's Better Newspapers contest. Student reporters and photographers won the awards in 19 categories for daily newspapers, competing mainly in the small newspaper category. A highlight for the Missourian was sweeping the top three places in the Class 1 "Best Sports Feature Story" and "Best Investigative Reporting" categories. [More]
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Oct. 19, 2005: Award-Winning Journalists Among Those to be Honored at the 2005 MUAA Faculty-Alumni Awards William L. Miller, AB '51, Randall D. Smith, BJ '74, and Sonja Steptoe, BJ '82, AB '82, will receive awards for their successful careers, service to Mizzou and dedication to community at the 38th Annual MU Alumni Association Faculty-Alumni Awards program, where a total 18 recipients will be honored. The event is scheduled to take place Friday, Oct. 21, in the Reynolds Alumni Center on the MU campus. [More]
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Oct. 17, 2005: Angus McDougall to Receive Missouri Honor Medal Angus McDougall, a former photojournalism sequence faculty member and photography innovator known to his peers and students as "Mac," will be the second recipient this year to receive a Missouri Honor Medal for his dedication to teaching students how to succeed in every aspect of journalism. [More]
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Oct. 13, 2005: Online Classified Ads Not Using All Available Resources, MU Study Finds A recent study conducted by a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher found that classified advertisements in online newspapers are not making full use of Internet resources. Sarah Farebrother, an MU journalism graduate student, conducted the study with Shelly Rodgers, assistant professor of journalism. [More]
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Oct. 6, 2005: Missouri School of Journalism Receives $1.7 Million Grant to Establish New Home, Expand Scope for NFOIC The Missouri School of Journalism's Freedom of Information Center is receiving a $1.7 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish a new home for the National Freedom of Information Coalition and expand its ability to support state groups. The NFOIC will move to the School on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus and be housed in the National Freedom of Information Center. [More]
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Oct. 6, 2005: Three Knight Editing Fellows Named for 2005-2006 Academic Year Rania Adwan, Traci Angel and Rob Weir were named Knight Editing fellows at the Missouri School of Journalism for the 2005-2006 academic year. The Knight Editing Fellowship program was started in 2002 as an opportunity for experienced journalists to serve in a teaching capacity as an editor at the Columbia Missourian. [More]
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September 2005
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Sept. 20, 2005: Dean Mills Honored as Recipient of Pacheco Leadership Award The University of Missouri has announced that R. Dean Mills, dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is the 2005 recipient of the Manuel T. Pacheco Academic Leadership Award. Mills was presented with a plaque and a $2,500 award at the Leadership Development Program Kickoff/Alumni Dinner, Sept. 19, at the Lodge of the Four Seasons at the Lake of the Ozarks. Mills shared his views and exchanged ideas on leadership in university settings during a group session of the LDP earlier that day. [More]
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Sept. 20, 2005: Five New Faculty Members Join the School Five new faculty members joined the Missouri School of Journalism at the beginning of the 2005-06 academic year. They are Yong Volz in Journalism Studies; John Fennell in Magazine Journalism; and Laura Johnston, Jake Sherlock and Margaret Walter in Newspaper Journalism. [More]
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Sept. 19, 2005: KHOU Defenders To Receive Medal, Present Master Classes The KHOU Defenders, an investigative television news team from Houston, are the first journalists this year to receive a Missouri Honor Medal for their dedication to exposing social and corporate failings and raising consumer awareness. The four members of the Defenders and two KHOU station managers will arrive in Columbia for two days of discussion and lessons on investigative journalism for students and faculty. [More]
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Sept. 14, 2005: Missouri School of Journalism Presents 2005 Honor Medals The Missouri School of Journalism will present the 2005 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism to five individuals and one news organization in newspaper journalism, photojournalism, broadcast news and advertising. The School has awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism annually since 1930. More than 435 distinguished journalists, advertising and public relations practitioners, business people, institutions and media organizations have been recipients of this prestigious award. [More]
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Sept. 12, 2005: Coleman Benefits from Prestigious Internship at NPR Yolanda Coleman, a senior magazine major at the Missouri School of Journalism, recently spent the summer in Washington, D.C. interning for National Public Radio (NPR). Coleman was selected out of more than 1,000 applicants to be a part of NPR's summer internship where she served as the publicity and events intern in the communications department. [More]
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Sept. 12, 2005: Journalism Study Examines the Burnout Effect on Sports Journalists For sports journalists, extended travel away from their families, late-night deadlines, long workdays that include nights, weekends and holidays, and competition from 24-hour television, radio and Internet media may compound the amount of stress and burnout. A new study by a Missouri School of Journalism doctoral student examined this stress and burnout of these specific journalists and found that the younger individuals who worked at smaller papers were experiencing the greatest stress. [More]
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Sept. 7, 2005: Freshmen Get Involved at Fall Welcome Students and faculty alike greeted the beginning of a new school year Tuesday at the School of Journalism's "Fall Welcome." Nearly 20 organizations were on hand in the journalism courtyard to talk with freshman about joining clubs and activities. As freshmen walked among the activity tables, they could ask questions of older students and faculty who were present. [More]
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August 2005
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Aug. 31, 2005: Six Students, Vox Magazine Win AEJMC Recognition Vox magazine and six Missouri School of Journalism students have won recognition by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in the Student Magazine Contest in the areas of profile writing, investigation and analysis and design. [More]
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Aug. 30, 2005: Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute Names Three to Its Executive Staff The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism recently named three to its executive staff. Executive Director Pam Johnson announced the three new members: Roger Gafke, Director of Program Development; Esther Thorson, Director of Research; and Roger Fidler, Director of Technology Initiatives. The Institute focuses on advanced studies of journalism and its role in democratic societies. [More]
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Aug. 30, 2005: New Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute to Focus on the Future of Journalism On Sept. 1, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute will hold its groundbreaking ceremony at 2 p.m. near the Institute's new home on the northeast corner of Francis Quadrangle on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. The Reynolds Journalism Institute is a new center that will be a nucleus of collaborative innovation, research and demonstration of new technologies and processes that improve journalism. [More]
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Aug. 23, 2005: Former Faculty Member Ruth D'Arcy Dies Former faculty member Ruth D'Arcy died July 25 at the age of 84. She joined the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism in 1974, where for nine years she taught and directed the Penney-Missouri Awards program. Before joining the School, D'Arcy worked for 32 years in features at The Detroit (Mich.) News as writer, columnist, Women's Editor and Lifestyle Editor. [More]
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Aug. 23, 2005: Laura Pohl Receives U.S. Student Fulbright Award Laura Pohl, a master's student at the Missouri School of Journalism, has received a Fulbright grant in Journalism, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently. Pohl, a photojournalism student from Newport News, Va., will be photographing North Korean defectors adjusting to life in South Korea. [More]
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Aug. 23, 2005: Brian Brooks Named to the 2005 Class of Apple Distinguished Educators Awarded by Apple Computer, Apple Distinguished Educators are among the first to make effective use of technology to support learning objectives in the classroom. They present their successes at key conferences and events, lead hands-on workshops and model effective administrative leadership and professionalism. [More]
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Aug. 22, 2005: Brooks Receives Career Achievement Award Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity has honored Associate Dean Brian S. Brooks with its Career Achievement Award. The award goes to one alumnus of the national social fraternity each year and recognizes significant achievement in the recipient's chosen profession. [More]
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Aug. 22, 2005: Study Finds MyMissourian, MU's Citizen Journalism Project, Is Paying Off "Citizen journalism," such as MU's MyMissourian.com project, is changing the face of how news is covered. Conventional media outlets, such as television stations and newspapers, increasingly are offering opportunities for viewers and readers to submit their own stories, pictures and experiences about major news events. [More]
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Aug. 8, 2005: Missouri Journalism Students and Faculty Present 32 Papers, Win Four Student Awards at 2005 AEJMC Convention Missouri School of Journalism faculty and graduate students presented 32 research papers at the 2005 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) convention Aug. 10-13 in San Antonio, Texas. Missouri doctoral students highlighted the convention, winning four "best student" paper awards. They won twice as many awards as any other school, led by doctoral student Scott Reinardy, who won the MacDougall Student Paper Award in the Newspaper Division. Four other doctoral students were honored for top finishes, including Zengjun Peng in the Mass Communication and Society Division; Jensen Moore and Keith Greenwood in the Advertising Division; and Fred Vultee in the Visual Communication Division. [More]
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Aug. 5, 2005: J-School Student Wins RTNDF President's Scholarship Hayley Salvo, a senior broadcast journalism major at the Missouri School of Journalism, recently won the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF) President's Scholarship worth $2500. Salvo will study abroad in London this fall as a member of the Missouri London Program. [More]
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July 2005
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July 7, 2005: Missouri Students Honored with National Mark of Excellence Awards Five Missouri School of Journalism students recently received honors at the 2004 National Mark of Excellence Awards. The annual awards, given by the Society of Professional Journalists, honor the best journalism students by recognizing a national winner and two finalists in each of the 45 categories. [More]
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June 2005
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June 22, 2005: MU Journalism Student Wins $10,000 Top Ten Scholarship Diego Sorbara is one of ten outstanding journalism students to receive a $10,000 Top Ten Scholarships awarded by the Scripps Howard Foundation. Sorbara previously won the Student Society for News Design competition and is at The Hartford (Conn.) Courant this summer as a Dow Jones intern. [More]
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June 21, 2005: School Reorganization Approved The Missouri School of Journalism will have a flatter organizational structure effective Aug. 1. The new faculty groups, each led by a faculty chair, will be Advertising Faculty, Electronic Journalism Faculty, Convergence Journalism Faculty, Journalism Studies Faculty, Magazine Journalism Faculty, Newspaper Journalism Faculty and Photojournalism Faculty. [More]
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June 20, 2005: Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards: 2005 Winners and Finalists Announced The Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, the oldest and best known feature writing and editing competition in American newspapering, is sponsored and administered by the Missouri School of Journalism. Each year trophies and prize money totalling $18,000 are awarded to writers and editors and newspapers. [More]
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June 20, 2005: Overholser Co-Authors Book on the Press and Democracy Geneva Overholser recently co-edited The Press, a volume in the new Oxford University Press series, Institutions of American Democracy. Esther Thorson, associate dean for graduate studies, has an essay published in the book entitled "Mobilizing Citizen Participation." [More]
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June 10, 2005: Ethnic Groups Process Breast Cancer Information Differently, MU Researcher Finds Recent studies indicate that while more Caucasian women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, the survival rate among African-American women is lower than Caucasian women. This may suggest that media messages encouraging women to engage in risk prevention work better for Caucasians than African Americans. Now, a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher has found that spirituality, risk perception and self-worth play key roles in how different ethnic groups process media messages and engage in self-detection of breast cancer. [More]
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June 3, 2005: KOMU-TV News Director Meets with President Bush Stacey Woelfel and other members of the board of directors of the Radio-Television News Directors Association met with President Bush on Wednesday. During the hour-long discussion, the president demonstrated his support for free speech, acknowledged the importance of local media in shaping public debates, but stopped short of endorsing a federal shield bill for journalists. [More]
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May 2005
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May 20, 2005: Justin Heckert, BJ '02, Named CRMA Writer of the Year Justin Heckert, BJ '02, was named Writer of the Year by the City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA) in its 20th Annual National Awards competition May 16 at the group's annual conference in Las Vegas. CRMA president Marian Conicella made the presentation to Heckert in the ballroom of the Las Vegas Hilton following the Monday night awards gala which concluded the magazine association's four-day national convention. [More]
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May 20, 2005: Two Longtime Missouri Journalism Professors Retire Missouri School of Journalism professors George Kennedy and Don Ranly will retire effective June 30. "George Kennedy and Don Ranly are legendary exemplars of journalism faculty; demanding teachers whose scholarship has improved both the practice and understanding of journalism. They have had an impact on many generations of journalists," said Dean Mills, dean of the School. [More]
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May 19, 2005: Miró-Quesada Awarded Second Tina Hills Fellowship María Inés Miró-Quesada of Lima, Perú, has been awarded the second Tina Hills fellowship by the Missouri School of Journalism. Miró-Quesada will work with journalism students as Spanish language managing editor of Adelante!, the J-School's bilingual monthly community newspaper. The fellowship will fund her tuition in the graduate school and provide a stipend of $5,000 per year. [More] Español
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May 16, 2005: Recent Advertising Graduate Selected for Northern India Program Jonathon Coulson, BJ '05, is one of 12 students nationwide who has been selected to travel in northern India for three weeks this summer through the American Institute of Indian Studies. Coulson received his bachelor's degree last week, graduating magna cum laude with an emphasis in advertising. [More]
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May 13, 2005: Getsinger and Hoops Among Top 20 Winners in Hearst Spot News Writing Contest Annie Getsinger and Brandon Hoops are among the top 20 winners in the Spot News Writing category of the Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program. "Spot news is the bread and butter of journalism," said Tom Warhover, executive editor of the Columbia Missourian. "Getsinger and Hoops prove we can put a little jam on that bread." [More]
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May 10, 2005: Missouri Journalism Students Win 16 Awards in SND Contest The Society for News Design chapter at the Missouri School of Journalism recently hosted the annual College News Design Contest. Among the daily newspapers, the most awards went to the University of Missouri, with 16. Ball State University received 10, and nine went to Michigan State University. [More]
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May 10, 2005: J-School Senior Creates New Campus Niche Magazine Tyra Hughley, an MU senior majoring in magazine journalism, is creating her own magazine, Quad U. The magazine, which features 10 sections, aims to establish a readership of 8,000 to 10,000 minority students at 50 colleges nationwide. [More]
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May 10, 2005: Journalism Student Participates in McNair Scholars Program Karen Mitchell, a senior at the J-School, recently participated in the McNair Scholars program. The program prepares talented undergraduate students for doctoral studies through participation in a research internship under the guidance of an MU faculty mentor. [More]
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May 4, 2005: Sara Bondioli Accepted into Honor Societies at MU Sara Bondioli of Herrin, Ill., recently was accepted for membership into the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the United States, Phi Beta Kappa, at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Bondioli also was accepted into Kappa Tau Alpha, a national college honor society that recognizes academic excellence. [More]
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May 4, 2005: Students Commemorate 223 Walter Williams Memories with Special T-Shirts When Professor Steve Kopcha's Creative Portfolio class realized that 223 Walter Williams, the computer lab, will disappear in the construction process for the new Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, they decided to memorialize the venerable place in the form of special T-shirts. [More]
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May 4, 2005: 11 Journalism Alumni Return to Campus for the 2005 Reunion Rally Eleven J-School alumni visited the MU campus during the 2005 Reunion Rally activities. Altogether, approximately 225 MU alumni had the opportunity to catch up with their peers, attend special events, tour the campus and visit with faculty members and students. Those attending posed for a picture outside of Fisher Auditorium in Gannett Hall. [More]
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May 3, 2005: Life Stories: Frank L. Dobyns Jr. Frank L. Dobyns Jr., a former MU professor and administrator, died Wednesday, April 20, 2005. He was 81. Mr. Dobyns joined the faculty of the J-School in 1966 and taught at the university for 15 years. While at MU, he earned the title of professor and department chair. [More]
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May 3, 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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May 2, 2005: Topics Course Allows Students to Understand Brands, Self Brand You, a recent three-week topics course, allowed J-School students to understand branding through an unusual twist: For each assignment, students worked on themselves as if they were brands. "A brand is a promise that stays consistent over time," said instructor Beth Ronsick, BJ '89. [More]
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May 2, 2005: Cristian Lupsa Awarded Atwater Prize for Writing Cristian Lupsa has been awarded this year's Atwater Prize for in-depth reporting published in the Columbia Missourian and Vox magazine. The competition recognizes outstanding writing by Missouri School of Journalism students and drew 32 entries this year. [More]
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May 2, 2005: Students Learn about Account Management in a Boutique Setting A recent one-hour Strategic Communication topics course focused on teaching students methodology to aid in the account management in a creative boutique. The class ran for eight weeks and culminated with presentations to instructors Jeff Graham and Marc Kempter from CORE in St. Louis. [More]
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April 2005
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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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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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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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March 2005
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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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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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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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