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News Releases: March 2006
March 2006
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March 3, 2006: WSJ's Clare Ansberry Wins Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize Clare Ansberry of The Wall Street Journal is the latest winner of the Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism. She serves as the Journal's Pittsburgh bureau chief and is a seasoned feature writer. Ansbury's winning articles, including "Uneven Care," "Frayed Lifeline" and "The Tender Trap," highlight the challenges of aging parents caring for a disabled child. [More]
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March 3, 2006: Alejandro Junco de la Vega, El Norte Publisher, to Receive Missouri Honor Medal Alejandro Junco de la Vega, the publisher of El Norte in Mexico, will receive the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism for his courageous leadership in reforming journalism in that country. Junco has built one of the most powerful newspaper conglomerates in Latin America, with dailies in Mexico's three largest cities: Mexico City (Reforma), which today ranks number one among Mexico's elite readership, Guadalajara (Mural) and Monterrey (El Norte). [More]
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March 3, 2006: Graduate Student Wins Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarship Missouri School of Journalism graduate student Michelle Loyalka has been awarded a scholarship worth $2,000 by the Overseas Press Club Foundation. Loyalka's winning essay described the startling psychological impact of breakneck change and social upheaval that underlie the booming Chinese economy. [More]
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March 3, 2006: Ad and PR Students Visit New York Agencies and Corporations Missouri School of Journalism strategic communication students were encouraged to "be a sponge" and to have diversified skills during a recent visit to New York advertising and public relations agencies and corporations. Some of the students will participate in the School's New York Summer Program, an interdisciplinary program in partnership with the New School University in Manhattan. [More]
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March 8, 2006: Reporters Believe General Public Is Unable to Understand Scientific Issues, MU Study Finds A new study conducted by Missouri School of Journalism researchers examined the role of the scientific reporter, who acts as the gatekeeper of scientific information. "While scientific reporters seemed to have a generally positive approach to biotechnology and shared these beliefs with friends and peers, they were not so optimistic about the beliefs of the general public," said Glen T. Cameron, MU professor of advertising and Gregory Chair of Journalism Research in the School of Journalism. [More]
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March 8, 2006: Graduate Student Turns "Keep. Do Not Sell." Discovery into Master's Project Alexander Cohn, a master's student at the Missouri School of Journalism, uncovered thousands of old photo negatives taken in the Civil Rights era and now has exposed them to the world. His story has been making its way around the world via the Associated Press and CNN. The Civil Rights pictures that Cohn found appeared for the first time in the Feb. 26 issue of The Birmingham (Ala.) News, in an eight-page special section titled, "Unseen. Unforgotten." [More]
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March 13, 2006: Carol H. Williams to Receive Missouri Honor Medal, Deliver Major Address on Market Segmentation Carol H. Williams, president, chief executive officer and chief creative officer of Carol H. Williams Advertising, will be awarded a Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism for her pioneering work and award-winning advertising on Wednesday, March 22. She also will deliver a major address on "The Growing Clout of Market Segmentation" during her campus visit. The Missouri School of Journalism has awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism annually since 1930. [More]
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March 24, 2006: Arnett a Top Winner in National Hearst Writing Competition Dugan Arnett, a Missouri School of Journalism senior, placed eighth in the personality/profile writing competition for this year's Hearst Journalism Awards. There were 90 students from 54 universities and colleges competing in the contest. The Missouri School of Journalism is currently in fifth place in the overall Intercollegiate Writing Competition, with five of six contests complete. [More]
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March 27, 2006: Master's Students Win First Place in Page Society Competition For the second consecutive year, a student team from the Missouri School of Journalism took first place in the Case Study Competition in Corporate Communications sponsored by the Arthur W. Page Society and the Institute for Public Relations. Master's students Yuliya Melnyk and Moushumi Anand, with faculty adviser María Len-Ríos, took top honors in the communications/journalism schools competition. [More]
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March 27, 2006: Live from J-School: Institute Construction A new Webcam is providing real-time viewing of the work being done in the Missouri School of Journalism courtyard area. This includes complete renovation of the vacant Sociology Building, partial renovation to Walter Williams Hall and the construction of a new addition between these two buildings. The Institute's new facilities are expected to be finished in fall 2007. [More]
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