Year: 2005
MU Journalism Student Wins $10,000 Top Ten Scholarship
Columbia, Mo. (June 22, 2005) — Diego Sorbara is one of ten outstanding journalism students to receive a $10,000 Top Ten Scholarships awarded by the Scripps Howard Foundation. The Missouri School of Journalism senior from LaGrange, Ill., is pursuing a double major in news-editorial and French. The Top Ten Scholarship is an award given to the … Continued
School Reorganization Approved
Columbia, Mo. (June 21, 2005) — The Missouri School of Journalism will have a flatter organizational structure effective Aug. 1. The current three departments and four sequences will be reorganized into a structure with seven groups of faculty, each led by a faculty chair. The School’s faculty unanimously approved the change at its May faculty … Continued
Wilkins, Coleman Receive Grant to Conduct Ethics Research; Named Page Legacy Scholars
Columbia, Mo. (June 21, 2005) — Lee Wilkins and Renita Coleman, MA ’97, PhD ’01, have received a $10,000 research grant from the Arthur W. Page Center and have been named Page Legacy Scholars for the 2005-06 academic year. The monies will fund a proposal titled, “The Moral Media: How Public Relations Professionals Reason about Ethics.” The research will … Continued
Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards: 2005 Winners and Finalists
Food & Nutrition Winner “The Weight” by Michael Leahy of The Washington Post A powerful piece whose sheer storytelling enlightens and terrifies us with a look at the psychological, physical and economic factors of America’s obesity epidemic. The story takes us into the lives dominated by the disaster of overweight and the failed attempts to … Continued
Overholser Co-Authors Book on the Press and Democracy
By Courtney Suthoff Columbia, Mo. (June 20, 2005) — Geneva Overholser, the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, have edited “The Press,” a volume in the new Oxford University Press series, Institutions of American … Continued
Ethnic Groups Process Breast Cancer Information Differently, MU Researcher Finds
By Jessica Pollard MU News Bureau Columbia, Mo. (June 10, 2005) — 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 … Continued
KOMU News Director Meets with President Bush
Washington, D.C. (June 3, 2005) — 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 … Continued
James Carlson Wins National Writing Championship; Matt Talhelm Places in Television Category
Columbia, Mo. (June 2, 2005) — James Carlson, a May 2005 magazine graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, won first place and a $5,000 scholarship in the 2005 William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s National Writing Championship. In addition, Matt Talhelm, also BJ ’05, won a $1,000 scholarship as a semi-finalist in the Television Broadcast News … Continued
Justin Heckert, BJ ’02, Named CRMA Writer of the Year
Las Vegas (May 20, 2005) — 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. This is not the first such award for Heckert; he took second place awards for Best … Continued
Two Longtime Missouri Journalism Professors Retire
Columbia, Mo. (May 20, 2005) — Missouri School of Journalism professors George Kennedy and Don Ranly will retire effective June 30. Both have been faculty members for 31 years. “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 … Continued