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News Releases: June 2007
June 2007
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June 15, 2007: Missouri Broadcasters Association Awards KOMU, KBIA Top Honors The Missouri Broadcasters Association (MBA) recently gave KOMU top honors for its newscast, weathercast and feature reporting. MBA encourages the highest standards in broadcasting by recognizing samples of excellence and achievement. Hundreds of entries from across the state are received each year and considered for the awards. [More]
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June 28, 2007: KBIA Wins Second National Edward R. Murrow Award Senior radio-television major August Skamenca and Matt Wynn, BJ '07, won a 2007 national Murrow Award for their month-long collaborative investigation "Dead Voters" that aired on KBIA, the School's NPR-affiliate station that serves as a training lab for students. The award is the second for Skamenca, who worked with KBIA news director Sarah Ashworth and former reporter Kyle Palmer, BJ '05, on a story that won the station's first national Murrow in 2006. The Murrow Awards are highly competitive, and winners regularly include CBS Radio News, ABC News Radio and major stations throughout the country. [More]
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June 28, 2007: MU Students Develop Plans to Boost Weston Business This summer, Missouri School of Journalism strategic communication students spent a week in Weston, Mo., developing promotional campaigns to increase tourism in the small town just north of Kansas City, Mo. [More]
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