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News Releases: February 2008
February 2008
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Feb. 7, 2008: New Innocence Project Gives Students Investigative Reporting Experience and Legal Knowledge The Missouri School of Journalism launched a new Innocence Project, created in conjunction with law schools at MU and the University of Missouri–Kansas City, in January 2008. Innocence projects around the country perform research and advocacy related to awareness and overturning wrongful convictions. Professor Steve Weinberg is teaching an introductory Innocence Project course, which will be a collaborative effort between students at both campuses, and a second-semester fieldwork course. [More]
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Feb. 8, 2008: Strategic Communication Senior Selected to Most Promising Minority Students Program Brandon C. Byrd, a Missouri School of Journalism senior majoring in strategic communication, is one of 50 students in the nation selected by the American Advertising Federation to join the Most Promising Minority Students Program (MPMS). The prestigious award allowed him to travel to New York City with fellow students from Feb. 5-7 to meet with representatives from successful advertising agencies and media companies at the New York Athletic Club. [More]
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Feb. 21, 2008: Scholarly Symposium to Highlight 1908 as a Pivotal Year in American Journalism A group of nationally renowned scholars and writers will help launch the centennial/dedication celebration by taking a look back at the year 1908 and its role in the history of American journalism. The symposium, "From Whence We Came to Where We're Going," will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, at the Donald W. Reynolds Alumni Center on the MU campus. [More]
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Feb. 21, 2008: New Book Offers Insider's View of the World's First School of Journalism A Journalism of Humanity: A Candid History of the World's First Journalism School, a new book by Missouri School of Journalism Professor Steve Weinberg, highlights 100 years of behind-the-scenes decisions, conflicts and turning points as leaders at the School carried on Williams' precedent of improving the profession through innovation in training for journalism. [More]
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Feb. 26, 2008: School Alumnus and Cartoonist for The New Yorker to Contribute to Centennial/Dedication As a tribute to the School that helped him launch his successful career in advertising and cartooning, Michael Shaw, MA '92, will serve as the contributing cartoonist for the centennial of the Missouri School of Journalism and dedication of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Shaw's cartoons will be on display at the Sept. 10-12 centennial/dedication celebration, a three-day extravaganza featuring a variety of social, professional and educational activities. [More]
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Feb. 28, 2008: Around the World with Movie Director Tim Burton Missouri School of Journalism photojournalism graduate student Leah Gallo used skills she learned during her master's program to get a job photographing on the set of the movie Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Photojournalism students have many avenues to use their skills, other than traditional jobs. [More]
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