The Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
1970: Missourian Reporters Used New Two-Way Radio
1971: Fisher Assumed Deanship
1971: New Diversity Efforts Established
1971: Freedom of Information Center Joined Pentagon Papers Battle
1972: KOMU-TV Received Updates
1972: Radio Station KBIA Established
1972: State Government Reporting Program Founded
1972: New Magazine Supplement Offered Hands-On Experience
1973: Asian Study Exchange Established
1973: Video Display Technology Installed at Columbia Missourian
1976: Broadcasting Legend Joined Faculty
1977: Gannett Hall Construction Began
1978: IRE Established Headquarters at Missouri
1978: Photojournalism Professor Honored
1979: Future of Journalism Education Debated
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Future of Journalism Education Debated


Dean Roy Fisher organized a "Futures Committee" and charged it "with deducing the kinds of people to be needed by the communications industry in 1990." Recommendations included continuing the liberal arts education basis; adding requirements of economics and computer science; and adding faculty to the fastest-growing magazine sequence and the largest advertising sequence.

Efforts in the 1970s to modernize the Columbia Missourian, KOMU and KBIA newsrooms, combined with a growing focus on computer training and the advertising sequence, produced students ready for journalism's future.

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