Awards

Jon Stemmle receives his award from April Fiesler Avery, president of MEMO

Missouri School of Journalism’s Jon Stemmle wins Post-Secondary Professional of the Year Award

Jon Stemmle receives his award from April Fiesler Avery, president of MEMO. By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (Aug. 5, 2024) — Jon Stemmle, a strategic communication professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, has won the Post-Secondary Professional of the Year Award from the Marketing Educators of Missouri (MEMO), previously known as the Marketing Cooperative … Continued

Teresia Nzau

From the streets of Kenya to Missouri School of Journalism grad student

By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (July 31, 2024) — When Teresia Nzau, a doctoral student at the Missouri School of Journalism, learned that she had won the 2024 Inez Kaiser Graduate Students of Color Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the news resonated with her on a number of … Continued

Mizzou’s NAHJ Chapter at the NAHJ national conference in Hollywood. L-R: Dean David Kurpius, Emilia Hansen, Piper Molins, Sophie Rentschler, Tadeo Ruiz, Evan Holden, Matias Remley and Assistant Professor Jeannette Porter.

Update: Mizzou NAHJ named Chapter of the Year

Mizzou’s NAHJ Chapter at the NAHJ national conference in Hollywood. L-R: Dean David Kurpius, Emilia Hansen, Piper Molins, Sophie Rentschler,Tadeo Ruiz, Evan Holden, Matias Remley and Assistant Professor Jeannette Porter. By Austin Fitzgerald UPDATE: Mizzou NAHJ won Chapter of the Year at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Conference and Expo in Hollywood, California, on … Continued

The AdZou team conducted an Instagram takeover during the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) in Salt Lake City. To watch their takeover, visit Instagram.com/mujschool.

Missouri School of Journalism’s AdZou team places in top five in National Student Advertising Competition

The AdZou team conducted an Instagram takeover during the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) in Salt Lake City. To watch their takeover, visit instagram.com/mujschool. By Benjamin Miller COLUMBIA, Mo. (June 17, 2024) — AdZou, the full-service marketing and advertising agency operated by strategic communication students from the Missouri School of Journalism, took fourth place in … Continued

Owen Ziliak

Owen Ziliak, BJ ’24, wins second place at Hearst National Photojournalism Championship

Owen Ziliak photographs a beehive at the REAP Climate Center in Alameda, California, during his Hearst National Photojournalism Championship assignment. By Nate Brown Columbia, Mo. (June 17, 2024) — Recent Missouri School of Journalism graduate Owen Ziliak has won second place in the 2023-2024 Hearst National Photojournalism Championship, which was held June 1-6 in San … Continued

Yasha Mikolajczak, Katie Quinn

Missouri School of Journalism’s KBIA wins four regional Murrow Awards

By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (May 30, 2024) — KBIA-FM, the Missouri News Network’s NPR-member radio station, has won four regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, including two wins for “Canned Peaches,” a podcast delving into the stories behind common foods that launched last November. The awards — more than any other organization in Region 5, … Continued

Columbia Missourian among top three finalists for two LION Local Journalism Awards

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