Year: 2010
Magazine Journalism Students Win Four National Awards for Feature Writing and Start-up Magazine Concepts in AEJMC Contest
By Brian Jarvis Master’s Student Columbia, Mo. (July 30, 2010) — Vox magazine and a magazine journalism publishing class brought home four awards this year in the 2010 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Student Magazine Contest. Vox magazine scored third place in feature writing, thanks to a collaboration on a project between staff … Continued
Missouri Journalism Students, Faculty to Present 44 Papers at International Research Conference
By Brian Jarvis Master’s Student Columbia, Mo. (July 29, 2010) — A total of 44 papers on an impressive range of journalism and mass communication topics will be presented by Missouri School of Journalism faculty, students and alumni at the 94th annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention, slated for Aug. 4-7 in … Continued
African-American Children from Low-Income Families Want to Engage in Healthy Behaviors, Research Indicates
Results of an Undergraduate Study to Be Presented at Upcoming CDC Conference in Atlanta Columbia, Mo. (July 28, 2010) — Low-income African-American children living in public housing would like to be encouraged to engage in healthy behaviors by parents and friends, according to a spring 2010 research project conducted by Missouri School of Journalism undergraduate … Continued
New Training Program for Doctoral Students to Focus on News Coverage of Infectious Disease
Columbia, Mo. (July 26, 2010) — A new grant will fund a Missouri School of Journalism doctoral student who is interested in studying how to improve news coverage of infectious disease and public health. Through funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Health Communication Research Center (HCRC) at the School will initiate a … Continued
Two Missouri Journalism Faculty Members Named 2010-2011 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellows
Columbia, Mo. (July 9, 2010) — Two Missouri School of Journalism faculty members are among the six leading journalists and industry professionals selected to serve as Fellows at the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) during the 2010-2011 academic year. The group will work to develop new revenue and technology strategies for the future of journalism. David … Continued
Citizen Journalism vs. Legacy News: The Battle for News Supremacy
MU Researchers Say Citizen Journalism Does Not Match Void Left by Legacy News Organizations By Nathan Hurst MU News Bureau Columbia, Mo. (July 8, 2010) — A team of researchers from the Missouri School of Journalism and two other schools say that even the top 60 citizen websites and bloggers are not filling the information … Continued
Seattle Times Writer Wins the Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism
The Annual Prize Honors Missouri Journalism Alumnus Who Died in 1992 Columbia, Mo. (July 2, 2010) — A Seattle Times writer is the 2010 winner of the Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism. The annual award, named for a long-time Charlotte Observer and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist who died in 1992, recognizes newspaper writing that illuminates … Continued
New Book by Seymour Topping, BJ ’43, Offers Firsthand Account of the Cold War and Perspectives for Today’s Journalism
By Brian Jarvis Master’s Student Columbia, Mo. (July 2, 2010) — “January 1949: I had ventured across the Chinese Nationalist front lines into man’s-land bent on reaching the headquarters of the Communist Party leader Mao Zedong to seek an interview and to cover the advance of his troops on Nanking, Chiang Kai-shek’s capital. Intercepted by … Continued
MU to Host New Advertising Ethics Institute
Institute to Research and Educate Advertising Ethics in Hopes of Improving Public Image By Nathan Hurst MU News Bureau Columbia, Mo. (July 1, 2010) — In a 2007 opinion poll, advertising practitioners came in third from last among professions in public perception of honesty and ethics, just ahead of lobbyists and car salesmen. In an … Continued
New Smith/Patterson Fellow Brings Chemical Engineering Background to Health Communication
Columbia, Mo. (June 24, 2010) — Since early childhood the new Smith/Patterson Fellow at the University of Missouri had a passion for science. That passion continued through college as he studied to become a chemical engineer at Michigan State University. Then, during his junior year a strange thing happened. “During my junior year of engineering … Continued