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Keith Sanders and Beverly Horvit

Professor Emeritus Keith Sanders Steps Down as Kappa Tau Alpha Executive Director

Keith Sanders has stepped down as the executive director of Kappa Tau Alpha; his successor is Beverly Horvit. Assistant Professor Beverly Horvit Now Serves in This Role Columbia, Mo. (April 4, 2017) — Missouri School of Journalism Professor Emeritus Keith Sanders has stepped down as the executive director of Kappa Tau Alpha, journalism’s national honor … Continued

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet Who Stirred a Generation of Soviets, Dies at 83

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian Poet and Author of ‘The Lead Honorarium,’ Dies

The New York Times reported the death of Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko on Saturday, April 1. Yevtushenko performed “The Lead Honorarium,” a poem he wrote in honor of the 2008 centennial of the Missouri School of Journalism and the dedication of the new Reynolds Journalism Institute. The poem was dedicated to five courageous Russian journalists, … Continued

Danielle Ofri

Goldberg Lecturer to Examine Communications Between Patients and Their Doctors

Dr. Danielle Ofri will deliver the 2017 Helen Goldberg Memorial Lecture in Women’s Health at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 26, in the Fred W. Smith Forum, 200 Reynolds Journalism Institute, at the Missouri School of Journalism. The Wednesday, April 26, Presentation Is Free and Open to the Public Columbia, Mo. (March 31, 2017) — New … Continued

Lucille Sherman

Senior Lucille Sherman Named National Intern at GateHouse Media

Lucille Sherman is one of two students selected for GateHouse Media’s 2017 national internship program. She Will Serve as an Intern at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune This Summer By Yue Tang Austin, Texas (March 30, 2017) — Missouri School of Journalism senior Lucille Sherman is one of two students selected for GateHouse Media‘s 2017 national internship … Continued

The Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism

The New Yorker Film Critic Reflects on School’s Documentary Journalism Program and True/False Film Festival

Columbia, Mo. (March 29, 2017) — The New Yorker magazine film critic Richard Brody highlights documentary journalism professor Robert Greene and the Based on a True Story program at the University of Missouri in his March 8 story about the 2017 True/False Film Festival. In the article, “Three Genre-Expanding Documentaries About Racist Crimes of the … Continued

Mizzou Magazine Club students visit the 9/11 memorial (top) and Cosmopolitan Magazine. Photos: Brittany Emond.

Magazine Club Visits Top Publications in New York City

Magazine Club students visit the 9/11 memorial (top) and Cosmopolitan magazine during a trip to New York City. Photos: Brittany Emond. The Trip Included a Networking Event with Alumni By Crystal Duan New York (March 27, 2017) — Magazine Club students and professors from the Missouri School of Journalism traveled to New York City to … Continued

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Student Organization to Host International LGBTQ Film Screening

‘The Blue Hour’ Will Show at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, in Fisher Auditorium Columbia, Mo. (March 27, 2017) — The Queer Media Association, with support from the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative, will host a free screening of “The Blue Hour” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, in Fisher Auditorium in Gannett Hall at … Continued

The New York Times Features Long-Form Storytelling Alumnae

The New York Times Features Long-Form Storytelling Alumnae

Columbia, Mo. (March 27, 2017) — A March 17, 2017, article in the New York Times begins with alumna Joanna Demkiewicz as a Missouri School of Journalism student in March 2013. Demkiewicz attended a daylong event on reporting and writing long-form nonfiction. Mike Sager, writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, had just published “Next Wave: America’s New … Continued