News Releases
Missouri Journalism Students Win 13 Student Society for News Design Awards
Top Finishers Include Vox Magazine Special Section, Columbia Missourian Page and Cover Designs By Rebecca Dell Columbia, Mo. (April 21, 2015) — Missouri School of Journalism students won 13 awards in the 2015 College News Design Contest. The juried contest is hosted by the Missouri Student Society of News Design and co-sponsored by the Society … Continued
Aaron Reiss and Natalie Helms Win Dean’s Award for Breaking News Stories
Winning Stories Cover Resignation of MU Athletic Director and Suspension Rates of Black Students in Columbia Public Schools By Rebecca Dell Columbia, Mo. (April 21, 2015) — Missouri School of Journalism students Aaron Reiss and Natalie Helms each won the Dean’s Award for Breaking News, based on their reporting on the University of Missouri‘s athletic … Continued
Associate Dean Fritz Cropp Wins University of Missouri System Award
The C. Brice Ratchford Memorial Fellowship Award Honors Commitment to the Land-Grant Mission By Caroline Murray Columbia, Mo. (April 17, 2015) — Associate Dean for Global Programs Fritz Cropp has been named the winner of the 2015 C. Brice Ratchford Memorial Fellowship Award. The intercampus award recognizes a University of Missouri System faculty member who … Continued
Students to Write Editorials for 18 Missouri Newspapers
The School and Missouri Press Association Partner on the Class Assignment Columbia, Mo. (April 17, 2015) — Students from the Missouri School of Journalism will drop their objective reporting style to be very opinionated for 18 Missouri newspapers this spring. The students in Associate Professor Clyde Bentley‘s Editorial Writing class were recently paired with members … Continued
7 Journalism Students Win Writing, Art Awards in ‘Rewriting Realities’ Contest
Second Annual Competition Was Hosted by MU’s Multicultural Certificate Office By Caroline Murray Columbia, Mo. (April 16, 2015) — Seven Missouri School of Journalism students have been named winners in the second annual Rewriting Realities art and writing contest hosted by the Multicultural Certificate office. The contest, which accepted entries in the form of visual … Continued
Missouri Wins Top Association of Women in Sports Media Honor
Campus Group Named National Student Chapter of the Year By Caroline Murray Columbia, Mo. (April 15, 2015) — The Missouri School of Journalism chapter of the Association for Women in Sports Media has been named the national winner of the third annual Student Chapter of the Year. An AWSM board committee selected the Missouri chapter … Continued
Scripps Scholarship Recipient Tim Nwachukwu to Intern at Newsday
The Photojournalism Major Will Receive a $3,000 Stipend and $500 Scholarship By Annie Rees Columbia, Mo. (April 13, 2015) — Tim Nwachukwu, a photojournalism major at the Missouri School of Journalism, is the winner of a 2015 Scripps Howard Foundation scholarship. He will serve as a summer multimedia intern for Newsday, a newspaper with one … Continued
Global Journalist Interview Garners Spanish Student Vanity Fair Award
Inés Gaviria Sastre’s Entry Was Chosen from More Than 300 Applicants Columbia, Mo. (April 10, 2015) — An interview with a French-Columbian politician who was held hostage by Colombia’s FARC rebels for Global Journalist garnered a Spanish exchange student at the Missouri School of Journalism a top award in Spain. Inés Gaviria Sastre, a student … Continued
Convergence Students Win National Korva Coleman Excellence Award
Team Used Data Journalism Skills in Winning Story to Identify Lapses in Enforcement of Convicted Sex Offenders Laws By Rebecca Dell Columbia, Mo. (April 10, 2015) — A team of three Missouri School of Journalism convergence students – Bell Johnson, Shelby Mann and Lauren Slome – have won the 2015 Korva Coleman Excellence Award in … Continued
Harsh Taneja Wins International Award for Research on Internet Censorship
The International Communication Association Outstanding Article Award Recognizes Scholarship with Long-term Influence Columbia, Mo. (April 10, 2015) — Missouri School of Journalism Assistant Professor Harsh Taneja with co-author Angela Xiao Wu recently received the International Communication Association (ICA) Outstanding Article Award for their article titled “Does the Great Firewall Really Isolate the Chinese? Integrating Access … Continued