Archives: Class Notes

Paul Keep, MA ’83, marked his 30th year in journalism on June 6. He has worked at five newspapers in Michigan (all part of Advance Publications) since obtaining his master’s degree. Keep was the top editor at four of those newspapers. He is now the director of print for MLive Media Group, which is based … Continued

Maurine H. Beasley, BJ ’58, has won the 2013 Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for the best book on journalism and mass communication based on original research published in 2012. “Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence” recounts the journalists’ contributions to journalism and politics, “but more important, their determination, struggle, … Continued

Donna Vandiver, BJ ’72, sends news that her agency, The Vandiver Group, is celebrating 20 years of business. TVG is a full-service strategic communications firm offering crisis communications, social media, research, training and strategic counsel. The firm’s headquarters is in St. Louis with satellite offices in Nashville, Tenn., and Los Angeles.

Haynes Johnson, BJ ’52, and a recipient of an honorary degree from the University of Missouri in 1999, died May 24. He was a longtime Washington Post reporter. Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for covering the civil rights struggle in Selma, Ala.

Vicki Friedman, MA ’90, a freelance writer and author of the blog LadySwish, is the winner of the 2013 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Mel Greenberg Media Award. Named after Mel Greenberg, the Philadelphia Inquirer sportswriter who founded the Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll, the award is presented annually to a member of the … Continued