Beth Pike, BJ ’86, and Stephen Hudnell, BJ ’73, both Emmy award-winning journalists from Columbia, won first place in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the China Academy Awards Documentary Film for “Deadline in Disaster.” The story shares the The Joplin (Mo.) Globe’s response to a violent EF-5 tornado that devastated the southwest Missouri … Continued

Bud Jones, BJ ’70, died Jan. 12 in Kansas City, Mo. He was an insurance agent and worked for the Lexington (Mo.) News for many years until moving to Odessa, Mo., in 2000 to work for The Odessan as the news editor.

Richard Tapscott, BJ ’70, died Dec. 1, 2013. He worked for several newspapers during his career, including the Washington Post, the Des Moines Register, and other newspapers in Wilmington, Del.; Kansas City; Wichita, Kan., Oklahoma City; Fayetteville, N.C.; and Trenton, Mo. He retired from the newspaper business in 2007 and began teaching at Drake University. … Continued

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, BJ ’76, died Oct. 20 in Bethel, Conn. He was the editorial director of B2B Publishing at IBT Media.

Lauren Yarger, BJ ’77, co-directed the first New England Christian Writers Retreat Oct. 18-20 in Plainfield, N.H.

Drew Babb, BJ ’68, MA ’70, recently created a one-man show called “The 100 Greatest TV Spots of All Time.” An award-winning advertising creative director, Babb developed the program for film, business and journalism schools. It has also been shown at museums and film festivals.

John Heisler, BJ ’76, is the senior associate athletics director for media relations at the University of Notre Dame. His ninth and 10th books were released this fall: “Faith Restored: The Resurgence of Notre Dame Football” and a revised and updated second edition of “100 Things Notre Dame Fans Should Know & Do Before They … Continued