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News Releases: March 2007
March 2007
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March 1, 2007: Missouri Journalism Researcher Helps in Former Communist Countries Wayne Wanta has helped develop research methods and journalism education in Albania and plans to work in Poland and Slovakia this year to assist news organizations and universities in developing methods that could improve understanding of public opinion related to politics, the media and more. [More]
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March 5, 2007: Columbia Missourian Sports Section Wins National Award The Columbia Missourian sports staff scored a national award from the Associated Press Sports Editors' (APSE) annual contest, which took place Feb. 26-28 in Long Beach, Calif. APSE named the Columbia Missourian one of the top 20 Sunday sports sections in the country among papers with a circulation of less than 40,000. [More]
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March 8, 2007: New Harte Teaching Fellow Shares Information Graphics Expertise with Missouri Journalism Students John Duchneskie, the graphics editor of the Philadelphia (Penn.) Inquirer, has taken a leave of absence from the nation's 11th-largest paper to become the first Harte Information Graphics Teaching Fellow at the Missouri School of Journalism. The Harte Teaching Fellowship was established to give information graphics professionals a taste of teaching while still working in a busy newsroom. [More]
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March 8, 2007: Convergence Journalism Students Use Cutting-Edge Skills to Promote Film Festival Since 2004, Columbia's own True/False Film Festival has been challenging the notion that all documentaries are "stuffy and dry" by bringing together some of the world's best filmmakers and interested movie-goers in downtown Columbia. The annual festival, which ran March 1 to 4 this year, showcased more than 40 documentaries on subjects as lighthearted as an air guitar championship and as hard-hitting as genocide in Darfur. [More]
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March 14, 2007: Journalism Doctoral Student Wins Competitive $15,000 International Scholarship Tayo Oyedeji has been named a prestigious Harvey Fellow by the Mustard Seed Foundation based in Arlington, Va. The Foundation is a Christian organization that encourages graduate students in premier educational and research programs to pursue leadership positions in strategic fields where Christians tend to be under-represented. [More]
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March 20, 2007: Centennial Directory Project Launched for Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Students This spring, the Missouri School of Journalism is launching the Centennial Directory project, where alumni, faculty, staff and students can be recognized as part of the Missouri Journalism legacy. The directory, the result of several upcoming months of data collection, will be an 8.5 x 11 hardbound volume containing profiles, career information and achievements of those affiliated with the School. [More]
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March 26, 2007: Master's Student Wins Society of American Business Editors and Writers Contest Isabel Ordóñez, a second-year master's student at the Missouri School of Journalism, has won first place in the student category of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' (SABEW) annual Best in Business contest. Ordóñez won $250 for her story on how poor Latin American men are being recruited to fill dangerous jobs as security guards for contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. She wrote the story as a correspondent for Reuters while interning in Lima, Peru, and Mexico City, Mexico, during the summer of 2006. [More]
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March 27, 2007: Strategic Communication Summit Highlights Evolving Media, Technology and Research Today's successful strategic communicator must be able to navigate as many platforms as possible, from print, radio and television media options to Web and online venues to viral marketing efforts. A group of Missouri School of Journalism alumni, faculty and other industry professionals recently addressed how this conclusion and other media challenges affect student training at the School's second Strategic Communication Summit held Feb. 27-28. [More]
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March 29, 2007: Record Number of Missouri Journalism Students Win Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Editing Internships A record 17 Missouri School of Journalism students have been selected for the prestigious 2007 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund summer internships in news, sports and online copy editing. This year, the Missouri Journalism recipients were among 105 students selected from an applicant pool of more than 600. Each will receive pre-internship training and a weekly minimum salary of $350 for 10 weeks. Interns who return to college full-time the following fall will receive $1,000 scholarships from the Newspaper Fund. [More]
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