News Releases
KBIA Wins Three Awards during Public Radio News Directors Incorporated Conference in Washington, D.C.
KBIA staff member Kristofor Husted (left) and Missouri Journalism graduate student Kathryn Palmer came in second and first, respectively, at the recent 2019 Public Radio News Directors Incorporated conference in Washington, D.C. Aviva Okeson-Haberman, BJ ’19, (center) spoke to high school students for another feature, “Beyond the Ballot,” which took second place for Best Collaborative … Continued
KBIA, KOMU Win 23 Honors at the Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards
Video producer Travis McMillen (at left) and on-air host/producer Aaron Hay struggle to hold all 23 of the Kansas City Press Club Heart of America trophies awarded to the KBIA 91.3 FM and KOMU-TV 8 newsrooms, real-world media outlets that serve as learning laboratories for Missouri School of Journalism students. The annual contest honors outstanding … Continued
Journalism Students, Alumni Gain Hands-On Experience Covering Missouri Tornado Devastation
Missouri undergraduate student Spencer Humphrey interviews U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) after the senator is debriefed by Eldon, Missouri, officials about the damage to the community. Photo: Olivia Gerling, KMIZ. Several students were in their first week of summer classes when a tornado hit Jefferson City, Eldon By Jennifer Nelson and Nate Brown Columbia, Mo. … Continued
John Deighton, BJ ’18, Talks Sports Journalism
Columbia, Mo. (June 12, 2019) — John Deighton went 19 games without witnessing a victory. Sixteen of those came during a winless season while working as a public relations intern with the Cleveland Browns. Then, he watched three more at the start of the 2018 season after Deighton joined the Houston Texans public relations staff … Continued
Alaina Curran Kick-Starts Her Music Career in L.A. with Capitol Records
By Jerry Duggan Columbia, Mo. (June 10, 2019) — Alaina Curran was in “Netflix and pajama mode” when she got a phone call that changed her life forever. The day after getting a rejection from her dream company, her morale was low. She picked up a burrito from Chipotle and hunkered down at her apartment … Continued
Hands-On Investigative Reporting Project Leads Missouri Attorney General to Launch New Probe
During their senior year at Mizzou, Kyra Haas and Aviva Okeson-Haberman began developing a story that took their reporting in unanticipated directions, requiring them to file multiple Sunshine Law requests after they noticed a disparity between the data and their anecdotal experiences speaking directly with Missourians who had attempted to use the state’s adult abuse … Continued
NSAC Advances to Semifinals, Comes up Just Short of Nationals
Columbia, Mo. (June 3, 2019) — The 2019 National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) team at the Missouri School of Journalism recently completed this year’s competition, placing ninth in the nation. The team missed out on being one of the eight teams to make the national finals by a fraction of a point. This was the … Continued
Senior, Recent J-School Graduate to Receive Hands-On Brand Journalism Experience via Kauffman Fellowships
Missouri Journalism alumnus Jon Beltrano of Batavia, Illinois, and senior Sarai Vega of Kansas City, Kansas, were recently awarded fellowships to produce brand journalism and assist with content marketing through a partnership between the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Missouri Business Alert, which is headquartered at the J-School. Fellowship Program Expanded After Partnering with Missouri … Continued
Students Gain Hands-On Experience Developing Campaigns to Attract Audiences to Boxing
Over the course of what can often be a time-consuming challenge during the final semester of their senior year, Missouri Adjunct Instructor Scott Fuenfhausen likes to remind his AdZou students that they will be encouraged to keep going as long as they “look at this as a 16-week interview.” Fox Sports has option to implement … Continued
More than victims: Migration images provide a chance to tell a greater story
An analysis of the 2015 Syrian exodus shows that how photographers frame migrants in photos matters By Cailin Riley MU News Bureau Columbia, Mo. (May 29, 2019) — One of the most devastating images from 2015 shows a three-year-old boy, Alan Kurdi, facedown and unmoving on a beach in Turkey. Alan had drowned during an … Continued