Documentary Journalism
Documentaries by Professor, Alumnus Selected to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival
‘Kate Plays Christine’ by Assistant Professor Robert Greene and ‘Speaking Is Difficult’ by AJ Schnack, BJ ’90, Will Open at the Utah Event in January By Annie Rees Columbia, Mo. (Dec. 21, 2015) — “Kate Plays Christine,” a documentary by Missouri School of Journalism Assistant Professor Robert Greene, and the documentary short “Speaking Is Difficult,” … Continued
Visiting Artist Series Kicks Off with Noted Documentary Filmmaker
19 Students Will Begin Coursework in the New Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism Columbia, Mo. (Aug. 20, 2015) — On the eve of the launch of its first two courses, the new Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism hosted noted filmmaker Rachel Boynton in a pre-semester workshop for students called “Stronger than … Continued
Sophomore Lindsay Gloor Is a Finalist, Wins $1,000 in LabTV Contest
The Second LabTV Tribeca Video Awards Competition Focused on Young Medical Scientists Who Serve as Role Models Stamford, Conn. (Dec. 22, 2014) — Missouri School of Journalism student Lindsay Gloor won $1,000 as a finalist in the Second LabTV Tribeca Video Awards Contest sponsored by LabTV. Students from dozens of colleges and universities as well … Continued
Missouri School of Journalism to Host Lecture by Anti-Apartheid Activist Albie Sachs
The Lecture Is Sponsored by the Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitor Program and the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism By Sarah Clinton MU News Bureau Columbia, Mo. (Oct. 10, 2014) — Human rights activist Albie Sachs, former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, will visit the University of Missouri to give his lecture … Continued
Noted Documentary Filmmaker Joins the Missouri School of Journalism Faculty
Robert Greene Will Share His Skills as a Director, Producer, Film Editor and Film Essayist with Students Columbia, Mo. (Aug. 6, 2014) — Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Robert Greene will join the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism, bringing his skills as a director, producer, film editor and film essayist to the new Jonathan B. … Continued
Missouri Tests Multi-Platform Storytelling Across Six Newsrooms
By Jim Flink Originally published to PBS MediaShift; used by permission. Clutter. Chaos. Copious amounts of content. News organizations are struggling right now. Struggling to connect with users, who are migrating to increasingly diverse and cluttered platforms. Struggling to migrate their staffs, sometimes chaotically, to distribute distinct, quality, multi-platform content to different and varied platforms. … Continued
Woelfel Named Director of New Documentary Journalism Center at the Missouri School of Journalism
By Nathan Hurst MU News Bureau Columbia, Mo. (Feb. 25, 2014) — Dean Mills, dean of the Missouri School of Journalism, announced today that Stacey Woelfel, news director at KOMU-TV and associate professor of journalism, has been named the first director of the new Jonathan Murray Documentary Journalism Center at the School of Journalism. Woelfel … Continued
$6.7 Million Gift Funds New Documentary Journalism Program at MU
New Program Made Possible by Gift from Bunim/Murray Productions Chairman and MU Alumnus Jonathan Murray Columbia, Mo. (Feb. 11, 2014) — The University of Missouri today announced a gift of $6.7 million from Jonathan Murray, an Emmy Award-winning MU alumnus and chairman of Bunim/Murray Productions, to create a documentary journalism program in the Missouri School … Continued
Alumni Win First Place in China Academy Awards for Documentary Film
The ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ Awarded for Film on Tornado Response by The Joplin (Mo.) Globe Beijing (Jan. 14, 2014) — The China Academy Awards for Documentary Film has awarded first place in the Best Foreign Language Film category for “Deadline in Disaster,” the story produced about The Joplin (Mo.) Globe‘s response to a violent … Continued
Journalism Students Practice Reporting from Field During Spectacular Crane Migration
Columbia, Mo. (May 1, 2007) — Covering city hall, reporting on trials and profiling election candidates are beats many journalism students learn to cover. Documenting an extraordinary natural phenomenon, however, is a less typical assignment. But for a group of students from the Missouri School of Journalism and the MU Agricultural Journalism Program in the … Continued