Awards
Missourian wins 45 awards at 2025 Missouri Press Association contest
By Mackenzie Leece COLUMBIA, Mo. (Sept. 19, 2025) — The Columbia Missourian won 45 awards in the 2025 Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, announced Saturday during the annual Missouri Press Association convention in Wildwood. The Missourian placed first in 17 categories, second in 10 categories and third in 18 categories. Here is the list … Continued
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk wins Collaboration Award from LION Publishers
By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (Sept. 9, 2025) — The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an environmental journalism collaborative based at the Missouri School of Journalism, has won the Collaboration of the Year Award from nonprofit news consortium LION Publishers. Part of the 2025 LION Sustainability Awards, the honor recognizes the Ag & … Continued
Missouri School of Journalism students win Online Journalism Award for series exposing use of industrial waste in fertilizer
By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (Aug. 29, 2025) — A team of students at the Missouri School of Journalism has won the Student Journalism Award from the Online Journalism Awards (OJA), a program of the Online News Association honoring digital storytelling. The winning series, “Waste Land,” was published last year in the Columbia Missourian — … Continued
Keith Greenwood earns national AJHA teaching award
The award recognizes Greenwood’s approach to making journalism history relevant By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (Aug. 20, 2025) — Keith Greenwood, an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, will receive the 2025 National Award for Excellence in Teaching from the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA). The award recognizes excellence in teaching journalism and … Continued
Update: KBIA wins two national awards for series about sustainable agriculture
Schleis interviews farmer Arlyn Kauffman in Weldon, Iowa, for an episode about peer-to-peer farmer training and support. By Austin FitzgeraldPhotos by Cory W. MacNeil, Ph.D. ’24 UPDATE Aug. 14, 2025: “The Next Harvest,” KBIA-FM’s series about challenges facing sustainable agriculture in the Midwest, has added a national Murrow Award to its list of honors. Bestowed … Continued
Mark Horvit earns Scripps Howard Teacher of the Year Award, the latest recognition for a determined difference-maker
Horvit speaks to a data journalism session during the High School Summer Workshop Program in June 2023. By Austin FitzgeraldPhotos by Nate Brown COLUMBIA, Mo. — Mark Horvit, professor and chair of the journalism professions faculty group at the Missouri School of Journalism, has been named Teacher of the Year in the prestigious Scripps Howard … Continued
Shelly Rodgers honored with esteemed Blum Research Award from AEJMC
By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (June 10, 2025) — Shelly Rodgers, the Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair at the Missouri School of Journalism, has earned the Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The award, which will be presented at the 2025 AEJMC Conference in … Continued
Three industry titans to receive Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service from Missouri School of Journalism
By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (June 2, 2025) — The Missouri School of Journalism has announced the winners of the 2025 Missouri Honor Medal, which recognizes extraordinary service in journalism and strategic communication. The honorees — selected by the faculty of the School of Journalism — are Jorge Ramos, former host of Univision’s flagship news … Continued
Missouri School of Journalism students and staff win 11 Missouri Broadcasters Association awards
Left to right: Jacob Richey, Beth Finello, John Murphy, Jeimmie Nevalga, Evie Allen and Dominick Lee By Nate Brown Osage Beach, Mo. (June 2, 2025) — NPR-member station KBIA-FM and NBC affiliate KOMU-TV, both working labs for students at the Missouri School of Journalism, won a total of 11 awards from the Missouri Broadcasters Association on May 31. The Missouri News … Continued
Missouri School of Journalism students win 1 national, 6 regional SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards
By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (May 30, 2025) — Students at Vox Magazine and NPR-member station KBIA-FM, two of the Missouri School of Journalism’s professional news outlets, have won a total of six regional Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Master’s student Aminah Jenkins also earned a national Mark of … Continued