FRONTLINE names 2025-26 Missouri School of Journalism Reporting Fellow

BOSTON (Aug. 26, 2025) — This month, the PBS investigative series FRONTLINE, produced at GBH in Boston, welcomes the 2025-26 reporting fellow Skye Lucas, MA ’25. Now in its third year, this year-long fellowship aims to expose new and emerging investigative journalists to FRONTLINE’s award-winning approach to documentary storytelling, immersing fellows into all phases of the series’ … Continued

Missouri Journalism at AEJMC 2025: Advancing Ideas, Research and Impact

From AI and ethics to visual storytelling and media law, scholars from the Missouri School of Journalism are exploring the questions that matter most in journalism today — and sharing their work on one of the field’s biggest stages. At the 2025 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference in San Francisco … Continued

Journalism students fast-track their careers and gain invaluable experience in the MU Graduate School

The Missouri School of Journalism awarded its first master’s degree in journalism in 1921. Today, students and practitioners take a journey of personal growth and professional development in news and strategic communication. Through the School of Journalism’s accelerated program, undergraduates complete graduate coursework while finishing their bachelor’s degree, allowing them to earn an advanced degree … Continued

Research from Missouri School of Journalism shows audiences aren’t squeamish about war photography

By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (Oct. 28, 2024) — Wartime photography has existed almost as long as photography itself, and navigating the line between exploitation and informing audiences has intertwined with that history from the beginning. Photographers during the American Civil War sometimes moved bodies in the aftermath of grisly battles to facilitate clear-cut narratives … Continued

RJI student staffer helps public broadcasting network inform voters with interactive map

By Austin Fitzgerald This summer, Missouri School of Journalism graduate student Chioma Obianinwa worked with South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB) to create an interactive map that allows readers to easily find information about candidates in state-level legislative races. Obianinwa completed the project as the student staffer for the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Innovation Team. The map … Continued

Missouri School of Journalism faculty, students, alumni win awards, present work at annual AEJMC conference

Missouri School of Journalism faculty, students and alumni will present 68 peer-reviewed research papers at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual conference in Philadelphia, Penn., August 8-11.  In addition, 78 Missouri journalism scholars will serve as moderators, discussants, and panelists during the four-day conference. Among the top awards for journalism faculty, … Continued

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

Missouri School of Journalism doctoral candidate wins coveted dissertation award from American Academy of Advertising

By Austin Fitzgerald COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 18, 2024) — Evgeniia Belobrovkina, a doctoral candidate at the Missouri School of Journalism, has won the American Academy of Advertising’s (AAA) Doctoral Dissertation Grant Competition, a prestigious honor that comes with funding supporting the continuation of groundbreaking research and initiatives. Belobrovkina is the fifth doctoral candidate from the … Continued