News Releases
Missouri Journalism Students and Faculty Present 32 Papers, Win Four Student Awards at 2005 AEJMC Convention
Columbia, Mo. (Aug. 8, 2005) — Missouri School of Journalism faculty and graduate students presented 32 research papers at the 2005 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) convention Aug. 10-13 in San Antonio, Texas. Missouri doctoral students highlighted the convention, winning four “best student” paper awards. They won twice as many awards as any … Continued
J-School Student Wins RTNDF President’s Scholarship
Columbia, Mo. (Aug. 5, 2005) — Hayley Salvo, a senior broadcast journalism major at the Missouri School of Journalism, recently won the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF) President’s Scholarship worth $2500. Salvo, originally from Carrollton, Texas, is a reporter and anchor for KBIA radio, the NPR affiliate station on the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is also … Continued
Missouri Students Honored with National Mark of Excellence Awards
By Courtney Suthoff Columbia, Mo. (July 7, 2005) — Five Missouri School of Journalism students recently received honors at the 2004 National Mark of Excellence Awards. The annual awards, given by the Society of Professional Journalists, honor the best journalism students by recognizing a national winner and two finalists in each of the 45 categories. To qualify … Continued
MU Journalism Student Wins $10,000 Top Ten Scholarship
Columbia, Mo. (June 22, 2005) — Diego Sorbara is one of ten outstanding journalism students to receive a $10,000 Top Ten Scholarships awarded by the Scripps Howard Foundation. The Missouri School of Journalism senior from LaGrange, Ill., is pursuing a double major in news-editorial and French. The Top Ten Scholarship is an award given to the … Continued
School Reorganization Approved
Columbia, Mo. (June 21, 2005) — The Missouri School of Journalism will have a flatter organizational structure effective Aug. 1. The current three departments and four sequences will be reorganized into a structure with seven groups of faculty, each led by a faculty chair. The School’s faculty unanimously approved the change at its May faculty … Continued
Wilkins, Coleman Receive Grant to Conduct Ethics Research; Named Page Legacy Scholars
Columbia, Mo. (June 21, 2005) — Lee Wilkins and Renita Coleman, MA ’97, PhD ’01, have received a $10,000 research grant from the Arthur W. Page Center and have been named Page Legacy Scholars for the 2005-06 academic year. The monies will fund a proposal titled, “The Moral Media: How Public Relations Professionals Reason about Ethics.” The research will … Continued
Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards: 2005 Winners and Finalists
Food & Nutrition Winner “The Weight” by Michael Leahy of The Washington Post A powerful piece whose sheer storytelling enlightens and terrifies us with a look at the psychological, physical and economic factors of America’s obesity epidemic. The story takes us into the lives dominated by the disaster of overweight and the failed attempts to … Continued
Overholser Co-Authors Book on the Press and Democracy
By Courtney Suthoff Columbia, Mo. (June 20, 2005) — Geneva Overholser, the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the Missouri School of Journalism, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, have edited “The Press,” a volume in the new Oxford University Press series, Institutions of American … Continued
Ethnic Groups Process Breast Cancer Information Differently, MU Researcher Finds
By Jessica Pollard MU News Bureau Columbia, Mo. (June 10, 2005) — Recent studies indicate that while more Caucasian women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, the survival rate among African-American women is lower than Caucasian women. This may suggest that media messages encouraging women to engage in risk prevention work better for Caucasians … Continued
KOMU News Director Meets with President Bush
Washington, D.C. (June 3, 2005) — Stacey Woelfel and other members of the board of directors of the Radio-Television News Directors Association met with President Bush on Wednesday. During the hour-long discussion, the president demonstrated his support for free speech, acknowledged the importance of local media in shaping public debates, but stopped short of endorsing a federal shield … Continued