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Election guides from Columbia Missourian and KOMU help local community prepare for April 8 elections
By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (April 4, 2025) — The Columbia Missourian and KOMU-TV have published comprehensive election guides on their websites, allowing community members to read about the candidates and issues in the upcoming municipal elections. The guides each offer different emphases, in keeping with the collaborative, community-focused ethic that guides the Missouri News … Continued
Columbia Missourian launches redesigned website
By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (Dec. 9, 2024) — The Columbia Missourian, a professional community newspaper based at the Missouri School of Journalism, has debuted a new website. From back-end improvements like search engine optimization to a slew of quality-of-life upgrades for the user experience, the refreshed website — made possible by a $20,000 grant … Continued
Columbia Missourian wins $20,000 to supercharge community engagement
The grant is the maximum possible award from the LION Sustainability Audits and Funding Program The Columbia Missourian has earned a $20,000 sustainability award from Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers. It’s not the first award from LION for the Missouri News Network’s community newspaper, which won a LION Local Journalism Award in 2022, but … Continued
Columbia Missourian wins 81 Missouri Press Association Awards, the most ever for the Missouri School of Journalism’s community newspaper
By Ryleigh Hindle, Columbia Missourian COLUMBIA, Mo. (Sept. 26, 2023) — The Columbia Missourian dominated at the 2023 Missouri Press Association Awards on Saturday, winning 81 awards overall in addition to the Gold Cup for Class 1 dailies. The total surpasses the Missourian’s previous record of 79 awards set in the 2020 contest. The results … Continued
Partnership with NewsMatch helps Columbia Missourian deliver independent community news to mid-Missouri
By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (Nov. 21, 2022) — The Columbia Missourian, a digital-first community newspaper based at the Missouri School of Journalism, has partnered with NewsMatch through the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) to raise funds supporting the Missourian’s independent, public-service journalism. NewsMatch is a collaborative fundraising campaign that benefits nonprofit newsrooms in the … Continued
Columbia Missourian wins LION Local Journalism Award for Best Collaboration
By Austin Fitzgerald The Columbia Missourian has won a LION Local Journalism Award for Collaboration of the Year, with the Missouri School of Journalism’s community newspaper winning out over professional news organizations from all over the country. The award comes with a $2,000 prize from the Knight Foundation, a nonprofit that provides support for journalism … Continued
Columbia Missourian wins 52 Missouri Press Association Awards
Olivia Anderson won first place for her photograph of graduate student Patrick Luo holding a sign at the Mizzou Without Rape rally in October at Traditions Plaza. The Columbia Missourian, the School’s digital-first community newsroom that covers news and sports, won 52 awards at the 2022 Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. It also won the Gold Cup … Continued
Elizabeth Conner Stephens named executive editor of Columbia Missourian and Missouri Community Newspaper Management Chair
Stephens will lead the newsroom’s coverage while working with community newspapers around the state to improve local news coverage Columbia, Mo. (Dec. 20, 2021) — Elizabeth Conner Stephens has been named executive editor for the Columbia Missourian, the Missouri School of Journalism’s digital-first community newsroom. An associate professor at the School and formerly the digital … Continued
Pete Bland named sports editor at Columbia Missourian
Bland brings decades of experience and intimate knowledge of the community to the role Columbia, Mo. (Nov. 29, 2021) — Pete Bland, a veteran reporter and editor with decades of experience in the industry, is now the sports editor for the Columbia Missourian, the Missouri School of Journalism’s digital-first community newsroom. As sports editor, Bland … Continued
Missourian wins 51 Missouri Press Association awards
By Cheri Eichholz Cherry Columbia Missourian The Columbia Missourian, the School’s digital-first community newsroom that covers news and sports, won 51 awards Saturday in the Missouri Press Association’s 2021 Better Newspaper Contest, including the Gold Cup award given to news organizations with the most awards in its division. The Missourian competed in the division of … Continued