Archives: Class Notes
Megan Rose, BJ ’04
Megan Rose, [formerly Megan McCloskey] 2004 University of Missouri grad in journalism, recently won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting; the 2020 Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award; and a White House Correspondents’ Association award for a series examining how Navy and Marine Corps leadership failed to heed warnings and implement reforms leading up to … Continued
Donna Schwartze, BJ ’87
Donna Schwartze (BJ, 1987) published her first book, Eight Years. The romantic suspense novel has received all five-star reviews on Amazon to date.
Marlene Neill, MA ’07
Marlene Neill, Ph.D., was recognized with the Teaching Excellence Award by the Media Ethics Division of AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) at their annual business meeting on July 27, 2023. She is an associate professor at Baylor University.
Kenneth Hallett Setzin, BJ ’88
Greetings from Johannesburg in South Africa! I hope this email finds you well! By way of background, I, Kenneth Hallett Setzin, graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia campus. Ever since I graduated, I haven’t been in touch with my alma mater for no apparent reason. I … Continued
Tony Stasiek, BJ ’00
Tony Stasiek, BJ ’00, is the editor-in-chief at IMDb.com.
Sherie Winston, BJ ’78
Sherie Winston, a former business reporter in Washington, D.C., was a visiting professor for the Spring semester in the Global Business Journalism graduate program at Tsinghua University. She led a global cohort of students to create a media case study on the impact of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus on the world economy.
Robert Georges Picard, PhD ’83
Robert Georges Picard, PhD ’83, had a new book published by Palgrave Macmillan, Media and Communication Policymaking: Processes, Dynamics and International Variations. He was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the University of Navarra in Spain.
Anthony Adornato, MA ’12
Missouri School of Journalism Alumnus Anthony Adornato Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Italy The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Anthony Adornato, an associate professor of journalism at Ithaca College, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Italy in the field … Continued
Suzanne Struglinski, BJ ’00
Suzanne Struglinski, BJ ’00, is the PR manager at Industry Dive, a business journalism publisher in Washington, D.C.
Yiqian “Phoebe” Zhang, MA ’12
Yiqian “Phoebe” Zhang, MA ’12, is working as a reporter for the South China Morning Post.