Missouri Journalism Pride Points: 2006-07

• Prominent industry professionals and leading scholars shared their expertise, recruited for internships and jobs and interacted with students and faculty during campus visits and through online technology. Students and faculty also met with some of these professionals when engaged in on-site visits of their media outlets, agencies and other companies.
  
  
  • Brad Adgate, senior vice president and director of research, Horizon Media, New York
  • Emanuel Adjekum, college relations coordinator, ESPN, New York, N.Y.
  • Becca Alexander, BJ '03, brand manager, Boulevard Brewing, Kansas City, Mo.
  • Tamika Alexander, HR/Central Support & Programs, Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.
  • Keith Allen, managing editor, Wick Communications, Sierra Vista, Ariz.
  • Neil Amdur, BJ '61, consultant, The New York Times
  • Tom Amico, copywriter, The Kaplan Thaler Group, New York
  • Corrie Anderson, associate editor, The Sporting News, Chesterfield, Mo.
  • Tim Arnold, MA '73, executive vice president-sales, Dragonfly, Hillsdale, N.Y.
  • Kirby Asplund, marketing director, Primedia Business Magazine, New York, N.Y.
  • Robert Audi, the David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.
  • Steve Baer, BJ '76, creative director, The Kaplan Thaler Group, New York
  • Jessica Baker, BJ '03, assistant producer of Weekend Edition, NPR, Washington, D.C.
  • Tony Balandran, assistant city editor, Kansas City (Mo.) Star
  • Charles Ball, intern advisor, The Boston (Mass.) Globe
  • Sandra Ball-Rokeach, University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication, Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Amir Bar-Shalom, head of military desk, TV Channel One, Israel
  • Andrea Beaumont, BJ '01, segment producer, Good Morning America/ABC, Denver, Colo.
  • Nicole Beland, deputy editor, Women's Health magazine, New York, N.Y.
  • Kimberlee Belcher, BJ '04, MA '05, research specialist, Fleishman-Hillard, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Jim Berger, BJ '78, chief executive officer, High Noon Entertainment, Denver, Colo.
  • Ingus Berzins, editor in chief, Web Portal Delfi, Latvia
  • Les Blatt, BusinessWire, New York, N.Y.
  • Steven D. Blumreich, president, BKD Corporate Finance, Springfield, Mo.
  • Merrill Brown, new media consultant, New York, N.Y.
  • Gary Burandt, BJ '66, executive director, International Communications Agency Network, Inc.
  • Audrey Burgs, assistant metro Iowa editor, Des Moines (Iowa) Register
  • Zena Burns, music director, TEEN PEOPLE magazine
  • William E. Buzenberg, senior vice president, American Public Media, Minneapolis, Minn.
  • Barney Calame, BJ '61, public editor, The New York Times
  • Art Casper, BJ '54, founder, Casper Creative Consulting, Houston, Texas
  • Susan Casper, consultant, Casper Creative Consulting, Houston, Texas
  • Kurt Chandler, senior editor, Milwaukee Magazine in Wisconsin
  • Katey Charles, president and founder, Katey Charles Communications, St. Charles, Mo.
  • Shuping Chen, editor in chief, Chengdu Economic Daily, West China
  • Clifford G. Christians, media ethics scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Recipient of the 2006 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
  • Jane Clifford, family writer and columnist, San Diego (Calif.) Union-Tribune
  • Rachel Cohen, BJ '98, senior marketing manager, Tory Burch, New York, N.Y.
  • Lin Congming, deputy director, Xiamen Municipal Publicity Department, China
  • Tom Contiliano, accountant and trainer, Bloomberg News, New York, N.Y.
  • Jon Cook, BJ '93, managing partner, chief client and integration officer, VML, Kansas City, Mo.
  • Jeannette Cooperman, editor, St. Louis Magazine
  • Lynn Crimando, vice president of new media, ESPN, New York, N.Y.
  • Chuck Curtis, BJ '67, MA '70, chairman, Valentine Radford/Square One Advertising, Kansas City, Mo.
    Recipient of the 2006 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
  • Alison Dalton, e-communications advisor, ExxonMobil Exploration Co., Irving, Texas
  • Eric David, art director, The Kaplan Thaler Group, New York
  • Barbara Davidson, staff photographer, Dallas (Texas) Morning News
  • Stephen Deere, general assignment reporter, St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch
  • Lewis Diuguid, BJ '77, vice president for community resources, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star
  • Kristen Dorney, regional visual manager, Gap, New York
  • Claudia Dreifus, science reporter, The New York Times
  • Karen Brown Dunlap, president, The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla.
    Recipient of the 2006 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
  • Dana Eagles, recruitment and staff development editor, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel
  • Paul Eckert, Asia specialist, Reuters, Washington, D.C.
  • Jake Edinger, BJ '02, copy writer, Waylon Ad, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Mary Jane Engh, scholar, writer and author
  • Donald G. Etling, BJ '71, senior vice president and senior partner, Fleishman-Hillard, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Veinia Eubanks, recruiting coordinator, DraftFCB, New York
  • Scott Flynn, planning director, Horizon Media, New York
  • Reid Forgrave, metro general assignment/community storyteller, Des Moines (Iowa) Register
  • Lew Friedland, professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Maura Fritz, executive editorial manager, LIFE magazine, New York, N.Y.
  • Hazel Dicken Garcia, University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Professors
  • Genie Garner, assistant news director, KMOV-TV, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Kim Garretson, BJ '73, consultant, Minneapolis, Minn.
  • Robert George Hart, senior parliamentary report, The Gleaner Company Ltd., Jamaica
  • Sheila Gibbons, vice president of communications, Women's Media Center, New York, N.Y.
  • Eytan Gilboa, professor of communication and government, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  • Bruce Gill, senior editor, suburban news, Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal Sentinel
  • Carey Gillam, Midwest regional correspondent, Reuters, Overland Park, Kan.
  • Dan Gillmor, author and director of Center for Citizen Media, San Francisco, Calif.
  • Edilberto Gomez Jr., executive editor, The Mindanao Gold Star Daily, Philippines
  • Josh Gordon, president, Gordon Communication Strategies
  • Joe Grimm, recruiting and development editor, Detroit (Mich.) Free Press
  • Ron Gubitz, recruitment director, Teach for America, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Steve Gutierrez, BJ '91, regional human resources manager, Gap, New York
  • Susan Hackley, director, Harvard Program on Negotiation, Cambridge, Mass.
  • Jon Halvorson, BJ '04, new media specialist, OMD, Chicago, Ill.
  • Becky Lebowitz Hanger, MA '00, national picture editor, The New York Times
  • Liz Harper, BJ '04, account executive, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder, Colo.
  • Irv Harrell, assistant metro editor, St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch
  • Chris Harrison, president and general manager, The Business Times Co., Columbia, Mo.
  • Walt Harrington, MA '75, professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Todd Helmrich, senior director, ESPN, New York
  • Bill Hill, deputy editor, The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz.
  • Justice Hill, senior writer, MLB.com, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Sarah Hogg, senior specialist, Fleishman-Hillard, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Gregory Holman, editor, 417 Magazine, Springfield, Mo.
  • Bob Holt, publishing industry consultant, Groton, Mass.
  • Gina Hosler, BJ '95, deputy chief, foreign copy desk, The New York Times
  • Amir Hussain, associate professor of theological studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Syed Waqar Hussain, reporter, Daily Times, Pakistan
  • Telor Hedd Iwan, National Assembly of Wales correspondent, Golwg Magazine, United Kingdom
  • Zubeida Jaffer, South African journalist
    Recipient of the 2006 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
  • Carol Jenkins, board of advisors, Women's Media Center, New York, N.Y.
  • Martin Kaiser, editor, Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal Sentinel
  • Ellen Kampinsky, senior editor/news, Glamour magazine, New York, N.Y.
  • Linda Kaplan Thaler, chief executive officer, The Kaplan Thaler Group, New York
  • Beth Keck, BJ '76, senior director of international corporate affairs for Wal-Mart
  • Darrin Kerr, BJ '04, 6th-grade teacher, Teach for America, New York, N.Y.
  • Marleine Khalife, investigative journalist, An-Nahar Daily, Lebanon
  • Paulino Kintas, chief editor, TV News, Radio and Television Timor Leste
  • Lauren Kleck, BJ '05, account executive, Moosylvania, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Kim Komenich, staff photographer, San Francisco (Calif.) Chronicle
  • Lori Korchek, The Kaplan Thaler Group, New York
  • Daniel Korimbao, deputy editor, The National Daily, Papua New Guinea
  • Bill Kovach, founding director, The Committee of Concerned Journalists, Washington, D.C.
    Recipient of the 2006 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
  • Bill Kovarik, professor, Radford (Va.) University
  • Phil Kuntz, assistant editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.
  • Susie Kurtz, senior recruiting coordinator, Draft FCB, New York
  • Annie Lang, associate dean of research, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Bryan Lattimore, BJ '04, account planner, DraftFCB, New York
  • Calvin Lawrence, MA '82, national editor, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.
  • Christie Ly, BJ '00, freelance advertising consultant, Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Antonio Cesar Mali, reporter and editor, Diario Tempo Daily, East Timor
  • Becky Marxer, BJ '04, MA '05, corporate communications, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich.
  • Sorin Matei, assistant professor, Purdue University, Department of Communication, West Lafayette, Ind.
  • Magnus Keller Mazimpaka, reporter, Focus Newspaper, Rwanda
  • Maxwell McCombs, Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication, University of Texas at Austin
  • Victoria McCargar, MA '77, digital preservation consultant, Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Maeve McGoran, senior commentary editor, NPR's "All Things Considered"
  • Douglas McLeod, professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Bryce McTavish, BJ '83, chief client officer, Zipatoni, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Suzana Deolinda Sousa Mendes, editor in chief, Angolense Daily, Angola
  • Katarina Mescanova, reporter, Slovak Television STV, Slovak Republic
  • Galen Meyer, training editor, Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.
  • Dan Migala, BJ '96, publisher, The Migala Report, New York
  • Jack Miller, president, True Media, Columbia, Mo.
  • Peggy Milner, controller and human resources director, KMOV-TV, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Russ Mitchell, BJ '82, CBS News, New York, N.Y.
  • Dana A. Mohammed, journalist, Hawlati Daily, Iraq
  • Paul Monies, business staff writer, The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla.
  • Kitty Morgan, executive editor, O At Home, Hearst Corporation, New York, N.Y.
  • Gary Myers, president, Morgan&Myers, Jefferson, Wis.
  • Vijay Singh Narayan, news director, Communications Fiji Ltd. Radio Stations, Fiji
  • Emily Narkiewicz, BJ '02, copy writer, DRIVE, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Neely Nelson, public affairs advisor, ExxonMobil Exploration Co., Houston, Texas
  • Merrill Perlman, BJ '74, chief of copy desk, The New York Times
  • Greg Philby, executive editor, Midwest Living, Meredith Corporation, Des Moines, Iowa
  • Bill Price, BJ '63, chairman and chief executive officer, Empower MediaMarketing, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Dave Price, news reporter, WHO-TV, Des Moines, Iowa
  • Mary Beth Price, BJ '71, media consultant, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Dean Pruitt, distinguished scholar in residence, George Mason University, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Fairfax, Va.
  • Linda Putnam, professor, Texas A&M, Department of Communication, College Station, Texas
  • Lois Raimondo, MA '88, photojournalist, Washington Post
  • David Reed, group editor, The Business Times Co., Columbia, Mo.
  • Mike Reilly, managing editor, Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald
  • Roy Reiman, founder, Reiman Publications, Greendale, Wis.
  • Bill Reiter, sports enterprise reporter, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star
  • Reza, photojournalist, Paris, France
    Recipient of the 2006 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
  • Thomas Riebock, director of human resources, Wick Communications, Sierra Vista, Ariz.
  • Jim Robertson, managing editor, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune
  • Peter Rodick, art director, Waylon Ad, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Michael Rogers, futurist-in-residence, The New York Times
  • Kim Rohles, ad sales account executive, Univision magazine, Chicago, Ill.
  • Damon Romine, BJ '88, entertainment media director, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Cindy Rosenblum, associate director for research, Horizon Media, New York
  • Gail Rosenblum, relationships writer and editor, Minneapolis (Minn.) Star-Tribune
  • Tom Rosenstiel, co-founder and vice chairman, Committee of Concerned Journalists, Washington, D.C.
    Recipient of the 2006 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
  • Caryn Rousseau, BJ '00, convergence reporter/producer, The Associated Press, Kansas City
  • Mike Sager, writer-at-large, Esquire magazine, New York, N.Y.
  • Keoxomphou Sakdavong, journalist, Lao Press and Vientiane Times Daily, Laos
  • Belal J.H. Salem, director, Palestinian Independent Center for Media Services, Gaza
  • Jim Salter, St. Louis correspondent, The Associated Press, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Joel Sartore, environmental and wildlife photographer, National Geographic Magazine
  • Kathy Schenck, assistant managing editor, Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal Sentinel
  • Kally Schneider, BJ '05, public relations specialist, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Chicago, Ill.
  • Kristin Schwebach, executive team leader, human resources, Target, Jefferson City, Mo.
  • Philip M. Seib, Marquette University, College of Communication, Milwaukee, Wis.
  • John Seigenthaler, founder, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, Nashville, Tenn.
    Recipient of the 2006 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism
  • Hyunjin Seo, diplomatic correspondent for The Korea Herald and international affairs analyst for the Asia Times Online, South Korea
  • Bill Sertl, BJ '69, travel editor, Gourmet magazine, New York, N.Y.
  • Amy Shafer, day supervisor, The Associated Press, Kansas City, Mo.
  • Hemant Shah, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Premal Shah, director of marketing services, ESPN, New York
  • Rachel Sheehan, MA '01, director of marketing, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, N.Y.
  • Tony Silber, editor and publisher, Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, Norwalk, Conn.
  • Karam Singh Partap Singh, news assignment editor (environment), System Television Malaysia Berhad (TV3), Malaysia
  • Michael Skoler, executive director, Center for Innovation in Journalism, American Public Media, Minneapolis, Minn.
  • Ben Snow, Distinguished Professor, Newhouse School of Public Communication, Syracuse University in New York
  • George Solomon, ombudsman, ESPN, Bristol, Conn.
  • Paul Steiger, managing editor, Wall Street Journal and vice president, Dow Jones, New York, N.Y.
  • Sergei Stepanov, editor-in-chief, Narvskaja Gazeta and Narva Postiljon Newspapers, Estonia
  • Bill Stevens, North Suncoast bureau chief, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
  • Steve Stockdale, executive director, Institute of General Semantics, Fort Worth, Texas
  • Alecia Swasy, assistant managing editor/equities, Dow Jones Newswires, New York, N.Y.
  • Steve Sweitzer, partner and executive creative director, Woodruff/Sweitzer, Columbia, Mo.
  • Florence Fin-Baye-Tangka Tan, producer, MMC Television, Cameroon
  • Lori Taylor, BJ '89, senior sales director, ESPN/ABC Sports, New York, N.Y.
  • Murray Teitelbaum, education coordinator, New York Stock Exchange
  • Sonia (Weinberg) Thompson, BJ '02, magazine editor with experience on national publications in New York, N.Y., Kansas City, Mo., and Memphis, Tenn.
  • Joel Thornton, universal desk chief, Dallas (Texas) Morning News
  • Elise Titan, senior vice president, Manning Selvage & Lee, New York
  • Cynthia Todd, director of newsroom recruitment, St. Louis (Mo.) Post-Dispatch
  • Seymour Topping, BJ '43, former managing editor, The New York Times and administrator, Pulitzer Prizes
  • Mary Van de Kamp Nohl, senior editor, Milwaukee Magazine in Wisconsin
  • Katie Van Luchene, editor, KC Magazine, Kansas City, Mo.
  • Greg Wagner, BJ '71, freelance copy writer, Boulder, Colo.
  • Ron Wall, executive vice president of sales and marketing, Ascend Media, Overland Park, Kan.
  • Vickie Walton-James, Washington bureau chief, Chicago Tribune, Washington, D.C.
  • Mike Ward, creative director, JWT (J Walter Thompson), New York, N.Y.
  • Bob Watson, reporter, Jefferson City (Mo.) News Tribune
  • Dick Weiss, independent writing coach, WeissWrite, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Joe Weiss, freelance photographer and inventor of Soundslides software, Durham, N.C.
  • Carrie Welch, vice president of communications, The Time Inc. Business & Finance Network, New York, N.Y.
  • David Wethe, airline reporter, Ft. Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram
  • Gary Whitaker, owner and publisher, 417 Magazine, Springfield, Mo.
  • Oliver Wiest, editor, Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat
  • Lars Willnat, associate professor, George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, Washington, D.C.
  • Andrew Wind, BJ '03, copy writer, Draft FCB, New York, N.Y.
  • Scott Woelfel, president and CEO, Armchair Media, Atlanta
  • Jill Woerner, BJ '04, field producer, CNBC, New York, N.Y.
  • Elli Wohlgelernter, television reporter, IBA English News, Jerusalem
  • Keith Woods, dean of faculty, The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla.
  • Steve Yelvington, vice president of strategy and content, Morris Newspapers Interactive Division, Augusta, Ga.
  • Dai Yuqing, president, Guangzhou Daily Press Group, China
  • Stefan Zaklin, MA '05, staff photographer, European Pressphoto Agency
  • Jerry Zremski, vice president, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

Throughout the year, the Missouri School of Journalism received and presented a host of awards. In addition, new partnerships with foundations and professional organizations created unprecedented opportunities to help Missouri Journalism students learn and succeed.

• Missouri School of Journalism radio-television journalism faculty and students recently took home 13 Heart of America Awards - including top honors for Best Newscast and second place for Best Web Site - for work produced and aired on KOMU. [More]
  
  
• Radio-television faculty and students earned top honors in the newscast, weathercast and feature reporting categories of the Missouri Broadcasters Association annual competition for work produced for KOMU. [More]
  
  
• A consortium of six health foundations in Kansas and Missouri has pledged $724,739 to establish the Midwest Health Journalism Program, an annual fellowship program for reporters and editors from both states. The Association of Health Care Journalists, based at the Missouri School of Journalism, will conduct the training program through its Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism will present in June a three-part series on the changing nature of media as part of its New York Program. The panels will discuss the changing face of broadcast and cable news, the future role of newspapers in disseminating information and a look at how political advertising shapes campaign discussions. Participants will include professionals affiliated with ABC, CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and others. [More]
  
  
• The Center for Religion, the Professions & the Public hosted a variety of workshops, speakers, training sessions and research presentations, in addition to participating in numerous events on the interaction of religion in areas such as public life, politics, investigative journalism and culture.
  
  
• The School announced the winners of the 2007 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, which included such publications as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and USA Today, among many others. The Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards began in 1960 as the Penney-Missouri Program and is the oldest and best-known feature writing and editing competition in American newspapering. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism held commencement ceremonies May 12 for 441 graduates, including 384 undergraduate candidates, 51 master's candidates and six doctoral candidates. The group represented the first full class of convergence journalism majors, a new emphasis area established in 2005. [More]
  
  
• Eighteen students enrolled in The Community Newspaper course spent a week interning at host newspapers throughout Missouri and the country as part of the course's hands-on practice opportunity. The students worked in Missouri's metropolitan and rural areas, including papers in St. Louis, Kansas City, Washington, Lebanon, Bolivar, Boonville, Fulton, Festus, Eldon, Mexico, Cape Girardeau and Maysville, as well as out-of-state locations near Chicago, Ill.; Beaumont, Texas; Keokuk, Iowa; and New Castle, Pa. Jim Sterling, professor and chair in Community Newspaper Management at the School, teaches the course. [More]
  
  
• Seven Missouri School of Journalism alumni from the classes of 1957 and 1967 celebrated their 40th and 50th graduation anniversaries at the School April 30. They attended a breakfast hosted by the Mizzou Alumni Association, a budget meeting at the Columbia Missourian and a luncheon presentation by professor Stuart Loory's Confronting Controls on Information graduate class. [More]
  
  
• The Utne Reader featured the School's Global Journalist magazine in "From the Stacks," its weekly online compilation of highlights from independent and alternative media. The April 27, 2007, posting on Utne's Web site featured Global Journalist's spring 2007 issue, which discussed the dangers and restrictions journalists face when reporting from war zones. A bimonthly publication based in Minneapolis, Minn., Utne selects only a few print and online publications each week from more than 1,200 for mention in this special Web feature.
  
  
• Hundreds of high school students and journalism advisers from across Missouri participated in Scholastic Journalism Day at the School. The day included numerous activities, including awards and recognitions, presentations by Missouri Journalism professors and campus tours. The event was sponsored by the Missouri Interscholastic Press Association, a statewide organization founded at the School in 1923.
  
  
• Executive Director of Advancement Colin Kilpatrick received the 2007 "Pat on the Back" award, which honors outstanding contributions by Missouri School of Journalism staff members. [More]
  
  
• The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) recently awarded KOMU-TV a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Best News Series, the station's fourth Murrow in five years. The winning series, "Immigration In-Depth," consisted of 12 reports that delved into issues relating to immigration, such as education and health care. [More]
  
  
• The American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation awarded the Missouri School of Journalism $590,000 over three years to host the Reynolds High School Journalism Institute, an innovative training program for high school journalism advisers nationwide. [More]
  
  
• A group of convergence and broadcast students have developed and promoted MySchool Video, the newest collaborative product offered by MyMissourian.com, a citizen journalism project. MySchool is a video-sharing Web site similar to YouTube that broadcasts video news produced and edited by students and supervisors at Columbia's Hickman and Rock Bridge high schools. [More]
  
  
• Eight industry professionals from select advertising, public relations and consulting agencies around the country participated in the second Strategic Communication Summit. The goal of the Summit, first held in 2006, is to gather industry leaders and infuse their collective energy and expertise into the School's cutting-edge strategic communication curriculum. [More]
  
  
• Fourteen of the most highly respected photojournalists in the world reviewed more than 44,000 images during the three weeks of judging of the 64th annual Pictures of the Year International competition at the Missouri School of Journalism. It is the one of the world's largest and most highly respected photojournalism competitions. POYi is affiliated with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the School.
  
  
• Twenty-five undergraduates, under the direction of faculty members Brian Brooks, Elizabeth Brixey and John Fennell, participated in the 2007 European Media Study Tour. The group toured Belgium, France, Austria and Germany in 15 days, visiting some of Europe's top media outlets. They visited newspapers including the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, 20 Minutes in Paris and the über-equipped newcomer Osterreich in Vienna; magazines such as Paris Match and the German Glamour; the Austrian Broadcasting Co. and France Television; and advertising agencies M&C Saatchi GAD in Paris and Traktor in Vienna. [More]
  
  
• Eighteen Missouri Journalism faculty and staff helped judge the more than 950 entries of the 22nd Annual National City and Regional Magazine Association's annual awards competition: Judy Bolch; Lisa Clausen; Jan Colbert; Stephanie Craft; Margaret Duffy; Michael Grinfeld; Suzette Heiman; Matt Hendrickson; Amanda Hinnant; Brant Houston; Jen Moeller; Daryl Moen; Shelly Rodgers; Byron Scott; Pat Smith; James Sterling; Steve Weinberg; and Rob Weir. CRMA provides professional development and training opportunities for member magazines and opportunities to exchange information and ideas and encourages high editorial and journalistic standards among member magazines. The contest has been coordinated by the Missouri School of Journalism on behalf of CRMA for the past 11 years.
  
  
• MyMissourian was featured in a national report on how newspapers and other news organizations are using audience participation and involvement. "Frontiers of Innovation in Community Involvement," published by the Center for Citizen Media, highlighted how the first generation of traditional-media innovators in the arena of community engagement are bringing the community into the journalism itself, beyond blogs and comments. MyMissourian is the citizen journalism project of the Columbia Missourian that allows non-journalists to publish stories and photos both on the Web site and in the print Saturday Weekend Missourian.
  
  
• The Associated Press Sports Editors named the Columbia Missourian one of the top 20 Sunday sports sections in the country in the circulation 40,000-and-under category of its annual contest. The honorable mention award recognizes the overall achievements in writing, editing, design and photography by the Missourian sports staff. [More]
  
  
• Sixteen strategic communication students took part in the annual New York trip, where they visited seven top advertising, public relations, media and corporate companies. Alumni and other industry professionals from The Gap, The Migala Report, The Kaplan Thaler Group, ESPN, Horizon Media, Manning, Selvage & Lee and DraftFCB played host to the student group. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri Association of Publications, a professional organization affiliated with the Missouri School of Journalism, sponsored a two-day professional development conference for print and electronic magazine and newsletter publishing practitioners and those who work in associated industries on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. Winners of the Ranly Awards, MAP's first-ever competition, were announced. The Ranlys are named after Missouri School of Journalism Professor Emeritus and MAP Founder Don Ranly. [More]
  
  
• Thirty-six magazine journalism students enrolled in the Advanced Design and Magazine Publishing courses will work with professionals at the Meredith Corporation of Des Moines, Iowa, to develop four new magazine concepts during the winter 2007 semester. The students will unveil their design concepts and business plans on May 1 during formal presentations to Meredith executives at the School. Meredith publishes more than 200 magazines and special interest publications, including Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies' Home Journal. [More]
  
  
• KBIA News won a national professional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for best small market radio documentary.
  
  
• Seventeen members of the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) student chapter had the opportunity to learn about news operations at two Kansas City, Mo., television stations. The visits allowed students to compare the real-world media experience they receive as part of their radio-television journalism curriculum at KOMU with other professional news organizations. [More]
  
  
• For the first time, judging of the 61st College Photographer of the Year competition was vodcast from the School, allowing remote audience members to go online and watch the judging of some 12,500 images in 16 categories. Judges included Janet Jarman, freelance photographer, Mexico City, Mexico; Elizabeth Cheng Krist, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.; Torsten Kjellstrand, staff photojournalist, The Oregonian in Portland; and Joe Weiss, freelance photographer and inventor of Soundslides software, Durham, N.C. [More]
  
  
• A new $250,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York will provide funding for specialized courses in theater, music and art for journalism students, beginning with the winter 2007 semester. The courses, Perceiving Musical Traditions and Styles, Introduction to Theater Criticism, and Art: Context and Culture, will be offered by the College of Arts and Science. [More]
  
  
• Jesse Baker, associate producer for NPR, served as a Hearst Visiting Professional during the fall semester. [More]
  
  
• Eight outstanding journalists and a leading journalism organization received one of the industry's highest awards: the prestigious Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. Recipients are: Clifford G. Christians, an award-winning scholar of media ethics and communications; Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel and the Committee of Concerned Journalists, a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to advancing the principles of the profession; Chuck Curtis, chairman of Valentine Radford/Square One Advertising, Kansas City, Mo.; Reza, photojournalist and founder of AINA, a non-governmental organization struggling for the development of independent media and cultural expression in Afghanistan; Karen Brown Dunlap, president of The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla,; Zubeida Jaffer, an acclaimed South African journalist whose activism made her a key figure in the anti-Apartheid movement; and John Seigenthaler, founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center. [More]
  
  
• The Columbia Missourian brought home 36 awards from the Missouri Press Association's Annual Better Newspaper Contest. The Missourian garnered 13 first-place finishes in a variety of categories, including content, design, photography, and beat reports such as religion, sports, rural life, and business. A first-place award in the General Excellence category highlighted the Missourian's performance, which also included several second place, third place and honorable mention awards. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists commemorated their alliance at a symposium at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The theme of the event - the 2006 Curtis B. Hurley Symposium - was "New Media, Enduring Values." The new partners - the world's first journalism school and a coalition of more than 9,000 journalists worldwide - announced projects that are designed to point toward promising ways in which journalism's most important values can be translated, and made even more effective, in the digital world. [More]
  
  
• The new student chapter of the American Copy Editors Society, which is one of only six in the nation, will broaden career opportunities for the School's students as the demand for strong, skillful editors in today's ever-evolving media environment continues to increase. [More]
  
  
• Prospective and current journalism students learned about journalism and campus student groups, journalism emphasis areas and other special programs at the 4th annual "Fall Welcome." [More]
  
  
• Elizabeth Leland, a reporter for the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, is the 2006 Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism winner. The Missouri School of Journalism administers the prestigious award. [More]
  
  
• A Columbia Missourian newspaper special section titled "Connections-How Mid-Missourians Stay Plugged in to a World Ruled by Technology" received the first-place award at the Inland Press 2006 Newspaper Special Sections & New Products/New Revenue contest. The winning entry was chosen from more than 600 entries submitted by 80 different newspapers across the nation. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism's viewbook, "The World's Journalism School," won a bronze medal in the "Visual Design in Print" category of the 2006 CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Circle of Excellence Awards. [More]

Missouri Journalism faculty members and students presented and published their latest scholarly works at conferences and in journals throughout the year.

• Strategic Communication professor Glen T. Cameron strengthened the School's reputation as a health communication and conflict management research leader during the 2006-2007 academic year. He received the Chancellor's 21st Century Corps of Discovery Award as an outstanding researcher at MU and gave the annual Corps of Discovery lecture, where he spoke on managing communication and conflict across cultures. Cameron co-authored a public relations book and a book chapter, in addition to co-authoring more than 25 journal articles and scholarly research presentations on topics such as contingency theory, crisis and conflict management and health communication and news coverage. He and his colleagues received numerous research grants totaling more than $500,000 from the National Institutes of Health, the Center for the Digital Globe and the Missouri Department of Health and Social Services. Additionally, Cameron engaged in collaborative work with the Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research, the new Center for Health Literacy Enhancement and Team-Up for Rural Women's Health.
  
  
• Missouri Journalism students joined others from the Agricultural Journalism Program in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and the Biology Department for a weekend field trip to observe annual migration of about 600,000 Sandhill cranes March 9-11 near Kearney, Neb. Bill Allen, coordinator of the Agricultural Journalism Program and adjunct professor in the School of Journalism, encouraged all participants to produce a piece of journalism as part of the experience. [More]
  
  
• Missouri School of Journalism faculty members and students presented 31 scholarly papers and participated as chairs, organizers and respondents of numerous sessions at the 2007 conference of the International Communication Association, one of the leading communication-related academic organizations. [More]
  
  
• Associate professor of strategic communication Glenn Leshner collaborated with several of the School's faculty and doctoral students on four published research papers. The studies looked at body image in magazine advertisements; viewer processing of television news; presidential campaign effects on voters; and the role of spiritual health in breast cancer information processing. The articles appeared in the journals American Behavioral Scientist, Media Psychology, Human Communication and Integrative Medicine Insights.
  
  
• Associate professor of strategic communication Glenn Leshner collaborated with several of the School's faculty and doctoral students on five paper presentations about different issues related to fear and disgust in anti-tobacco and anti-smoking messages. They presented their work at International Communication Association conferences held in San Francisco, Calif., and Dresden, Germany, in addition to the Society for Psychophysiological Research conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication in Lexington.
  
  
• Associate professor of strategic communication Glenn Leshner wrote "The effects of dehumanizing depictions of race in television news stories," a chapter of the 2006 book Communication and Law: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research, edited by Amy Reynolds and Brooke Barnett.
  
  
• Assistant professor María Len-Ríos and doctoral student Qi Qiu conducted a study that found that newspapers' front page and section stories about clinical trials are overwhelmingly negative and that exposure to these stories may decrease people's willingness to participate in medical trials. Their study, "Negative Articles Predict Clinical Trial Reluctance," was published in the Winter 2007 issue of the Newspaper Research Journal. [More]
  
  
• Sooyoung Cho, PhD '05, and Glen Cameron, the Gregory Chair in Journalism Research, presented "Quantifying the Power of Public Relations in Media Relations: A National Survey of Public Relations Practitioners" to the Public Relations Division of the National Communication Association in November 2006 in San Antonio, Texas.
  
  
• Doctoral student Jiyang Bae's article, "Korean Public Relations and Journalists: Relational Influences in News Selection," has been accepted for publication in the journal Public Relations Review.
  
  
• An excerpt from Associate Professor Mary Kay Blakely's next book, Holy Days of Obligation, has been chosen for publication in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
  
  
• Yan Jin, MA '02, PhD '05, and Glen Cameron, the Gregory Chair in Journalism Research, published "Scale Development for Measuring Stance as Degrees of Accommodation" in the Journal of Public Relations Research.
  
  
• A study by Yan Jin, MA '02, PhD '05, Augustine Pang, PhD '06, and Glen Cameron, the Gregory Chair in Journalism Research, examined the management of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis by the government of Singapore from a strategic communication perspective. Their study, "Strategic Communication in Crisis Governance: Singapore's Management of the SARS Crisis," appeared in the Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies.
  
  
• Research conducted by Jeffrey Oliver, MA '04, as part of his professional project appeared in "The Myth of Thomas Szasz" in the summer issue of The New Atlantis.
  
  
• Associate Professor Michael Grinfeld's "Advocacy-Oriented Health Care Access Project," JAHelp.org, was accepted as a poster presentation for the meeting of the American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Some of the photographs of master's student Bea Wallace were chosen for inclusion in Random House's forthcoming "25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers." The book is to be published in spring 2008.
  
  
• Associate Professor Michael Grinfield's "Psychiatric Meds and Kids: How Many is Too Many?" was published in the October issue of Psychiatric Times.
  
  
• An article by Assistant Professor María Len-Ríos will appear in the winter 2007 issue of Newspaper Research Journal. The article is titled, "Front Page News: Does Coverage of Clinical Trials Research Affect Participation Rates in Medical Studies?"
  
  
• "How the World Looks to Us: International News in Award-Winning Photographs from the Pictures of the Year, 1943-2003," an article by Professor Zoe Smith and doctoral student Keith Greenwood, has been selected for publication in Journalism Practice, a new scholarly journal.
  
  
• Associate Professor Shelly Rodgers' "Development of an Instrument to Measure Web Site Personality" has been accepted for publication in the fall 2006 issue of the Journal of Interactive Advertising.
  
  
• Associate Professor Shelly Rodgers and colleagues had their article "Community Support for Clean Indoor Air Policies in Mid-Missouri" accepted for publication in the December 2006 issue of Missouri Medicine.
  
  
• Doctoral student Bob Britten, MA '04, presented as part of a panel at the Midwest Pop Culture Association Conference on Oct. 27 in Indianapolis, Ind.
  
  
• Assistant Professor Michael Fuhlhage, a Columbia Missourian news editor and master's student, presented "From the Margins to the Majority: Coverage of Latino Immigrants in a Kansas Meatpacking Town, 1980-2000" as a work-in-progress at the annual meeting of the American Journalism Historians Association Oct. 13 in Wichita, Kan.
  
  
• Assistant Professor María Len-Ríos moderated a panel on crisis communication Oct. 17 at the AMEC Missouri Rural Electric Cooperative's Communication Conference at the Lake of the Ozarks (Mo.). Jarrett Medlin, BJ '03, MA '05, organized the panel.
  
  
• Santosh Vijaykumar, MA '05, and Associate Professor Shelly Rodgers gave a poster presentation, "Breast Cancer Information Quality on Commercial versus Nonprofit Web sites," at the MEDNET 2006 Conference, which took place Oct. 16-18 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  
  
• An article about Associate Professor Cynthia Frisby's research on the role of media in cancer awareness was included in the 2005-06 annual report of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center in Columbia, Mo.
  
  
• Doctoral student Fred Vultee, MA '04, published "'Fatwa on the Bunny': News Language and the Creation of Meaning about the Middle East" in the Journal of Communication Inquiry.
  
  
• Visual Communication Quarterly has accepted for publication doctoral student Fred Vultee's, MA '04, article, "Dr. FDR and Baby War: The World through Chicago Political Cartoons before and after Pearl Harbor."
  
  
• Associate Professor Shelly Rodgers published "Telethnography Proves Itself Legitimate" in Marketing News.
  
  
• "Stereotypical Portrayals of Emotionality in News Photographs," an article by Associate Professor Shelly Rodgers and Associate Dean Esther Thorson, has been accepted for publication in Mass Communication and Society.
  
  
• J. H. Shin, PhD '03, Glen Cameron, the Gregory Chair in Journalism Research, and Associate Professor Fritz Cropp published "Occam's Razor in the Contingency Theory: A National Survey of PR Professional Response to the 86 Contingent Variables" in Public Relations Review.
  
  
• "Contingent Factors in Public Relations Practice: Modeling Generic Public Relations in South Korea," an article by J. H. Shin, PhD '03, and Glen Cameron, the Gregory Chair in Journalism Research, was published in Public Relations Review.
  
  
• Kjerstin Thorson, MA '06, and Associate Professor Shelly Rodgers have had their article "Relations Between Blogs and eWOM, Interactivity, Perceived Interactivity and Parasocial Interaction" accepted for publication in the Journal of Interactive Advertising.
  
  
• "Multiple Health Information Sources and Arthritis: A Segmentation Analysis of Midwesterners," a paper by Associate Professor Shelly Rodgers; Kenneth Fleming, director of the Center for Advanced Social Research; Associate Professor Margaret Duffy, strategic communication chair; doctoral student Jiyang Bae; and doctoral student Crystal Lumpkins, BJ '92, was accepted to the April 2006 Bridging the Quality Gap Conference in Columbia, Mo.
  
  
• People are more likely to contribute to online communities if there is a moderator, interactive messages and a slow response rate, according to a study by Kevin Wise, assistant professor of strategic communication and co-director of the PRIME Lab, Brian Hamman, MA '06, and Kjerstin Thorson, MA '06. The study was published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism, the Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ) and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute announced the details of upcoming research partnerships with three news organizations around the country during the 2006 Curtis B. Hurley Symposium at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The announcement is the first of what all hope will be many opportunities to collaborate on research and outreach that will drive innovation and positive change in journalism. [More]
  
  
• Shelly Rodgers is ranked the No. 1 researcher in Internet advertising and No. 4 researcher in Internet advertising, marketing and communications, according to a study in the fall 2006 issue of the Journal of Advertising. [More]
  
  
• A study by Cynthia Frisby, an associate professor of strategic communication, found that people perceive a light brown skin tone to be more physically attractive than a pale or dark skin tone. The findings might impact how advertisers use African-American models. The study was published in the August 2006 issue of the journal Facial Plastic Surgery. [More]
  
  
• Seven Missouri Journalism faculty members and graduate students will present their scholarly research or speak on academic panels at the 25th annual convention of the American Journalism Historians Association. [More]
  
  
• The Center for the Study of Conflict, Law and the Media, a groundbreaking collaboration linking the Missouri School of Journalism and University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, hosted an international conference, "News Reporting and Its Impact on Conflict." By bringing together an international group of scholars, the Center intends to cultivate a research agenda that will ultimately elevate news coverage of conflict. [More]
  
  
• A study by Glen Cameron, the Gregory Chair in Journalism Research, along with Augustine Pang, journalism doctoral candidate, and Yan Jin, MA '02, PhD '05, now assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, found the Department of Homeland Security and media evaluate and communicate terror threats differently. When faced with a terror threat like the recent plot to blow up planes traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States, the American public turns to the media for information about the level and duration of the threat. However, the information people receive from different sources may be conflicting and confusing. [More]
  
  
• Thirty-one scholarly papers developed by Missouri School of Journalism faculty and graduate students will be presented at this year's Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference. Their work covers an impressive breadth of topics including advertising, public relations, newspaper journalism, international communications, media ethics and media law. Top paper awards were presented to four doctoral students and one master's student. [More]
  • Fred Vultee earned the "Top Student Paper" in the International Communication Division.
  • Tayo Oyedeji and Felicity Duncan received the "Top Student Paper Award" by the Radio-Television Journalism Division.
  • Youngkee Ju received the "First Place Student Paper" prize in the Mass Communication and Society Division.
  • Tayo Oyedeji earned a "Second Place Student Paper" award by the Media Management and Economics Division.
  • Master's student Reuben Stern, BJ '93, was the winner of the Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii/AEJMC Award Prize by the Media Ethics Division.
  
  
• A research study by Kevin Wise, an assistant professor of strategic communication, discovered that people respond more positively to images on the Internet if they don't have control over when the picture is displayed. The study has been accepted for publication in the journal Media Psychology. [More]

New academic appointments and the publication or revision of books were among the year's highlights for Missouri Journalism faculty members.

• Associate professor Rita Reed was the photographer for a traveling exhibition entitled "Work is Art and Art is Work: The Art of Hand-crafted Instruments," an American Masterpieces project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition, sponsored by the Missouri Arts Council in partnership with the Missouri Folk Arts Program, debuted in June 2007 in West Plains, Mo.
  
  
• Esther Thorson, associate dean for graduate studies and research, co-edited the book Internet Advertising: Theory and Research with David W. Schumann of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Several Missouri School of Journalism faculty, alumni and graduate students contributed to the book, including: Margaret Duffy, associate professor and chair, strategic communication; Shelly Rodgers, associate professor, strategic communication; Clyde Bentley, associate professor, convergence journalism; Sandra Davidson, associate professor, journalism studies; James Coyle, MA '94, PhD '97; Anca Micu, PhD '05; Kjerstin Thorson, MA '06; Jensen Moore, doctoral student; and Brenden Watson, master's student.
  
  
• Radio-television instructor and KOMU news director Stacey Woelfel won the 2007 O.O. McIntyre Professorship for excellence in teaching given by the Missouri School of Journalism. The professorship carries a $10,000 salary supplement for the next academic year. [More]
  
  
• Assistant Professor Paul Bolls was one of two recipients of the 2007 MU Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award at the annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievements Forum. The award recognizes faculty members who support and promote undergraduate research and creative and scholarly achievements. In addition to an engraved plaque, the winners also receive $500 for research equipment and expenses. [More]
  
  
• Mike McKean, associate professor and chair of convergence journalism, received a 2007 Excellence in Education Award from the University's Division of Student Affairs for his extensive work with students outside of the classroom. [More]
  
  
• Stacey Woelfel, radio-television instructor and news director at KOMU-TV, authored the cover story of the February 2007 edition of the RTNDA Communicator. His story, "Full Disclosure," details the struggles local stations and network feed services have had finding and keeping a policy on identifying video that comes from non-news sources. Typically called video news releases (VNRs), the non-editorial video is the focus of FCC scrutiny into commercial influence in local news content.
  
  
• Stacey Woelfel, radio-television instructor and news director at KOMU-TV, was elected to the executive committee of the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), an international organization whose mission is to advocate for the broadcast and electronic journalist. Woelfel has served on RTNDA's board of directors since 2003 and currently chairs the ethics committee.
  
  
• Assistant Professor Berkley Hudson's article, "A Mississippi Negro Farmer, His Mule, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Racial Portrayals of Sylvester Harris in the Black and White 1930s," was published in the winter 2007 issue of Journalism History.
  
  
• Assistant Professor Berkley Hudson's article, "O.N. Pruitt's Possum Town: The Modest Aspiration and Small Renown of a Mississippi Photographer," has been accepted in the summer 2007 issue of the journal Southern Cultures, which will be focusing on the photography of the American South.
  
  
• Assistant Professor Berkley Hudson's research on photographer O.N. Pruitt was featured in the spring 2007 issue of Illumination, the University of Missouri-Columbia's magazine devoted to research, scholarship and creative achievement.
  
  
• Visual Communication Quarterly, the official publication of the Visual Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, has appointed Assistant Professor Berkley Hudson as a member of its editorial board.
  
  
• Assistant Professor Berkley Hudson presented a research-in-progress paper, "The Rise and Fall of the Pope of America's Foreign-Language Press: Louis N. Hammerling, Advertising Rep, Ethnic Advocate, Republican Operative, and Fraudulent Entrepreneur," at the spring conference of the American Journalism Historians Association and at a meeting of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in New York City in March 2007. Doctoral candidate Karen Boyajy was co-author of the presentation.
  
  
• Alex Cohn, MA '06, and Assistant Professor Berkley Hudson will present "'Keep. Do Not Sell: The Birmingham News as a Reluctant Visual Witness to the Tumultuous Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s" at the June 2007 Visual Communication Conference in Estes Park, Colo. Cohn conducted the research for his master's project, which Hudson supervised as a committee member. The resulting eight-page special section of the Birmingham News won Best Special Section of the Year at the 2007 Pictures of the Year International contest. [More]
  
  
• Assistant professor of journalism studies Yong Volz had her article, "Going Public Through Writing: Women Journalists and Gendered Journalistic Space in China, 1890s-1920s," published in the academic journal Media, Culture & Society in 2007.
  
  
• Lynda Kraxberger, associate professor of convergence journalism, was one of five faculty members at the University of Missouri-Columbia to receive a 2007 William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. [More]
  
  
• Geneva Overholser, the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, was the featured speaker at a Mizzou Alumni Association event in Washington, D.C., April 21. At the dinner, hosted by Chancellor Brady J. Deaton and Heather Starek, BJ '97, president of the MAA Washington, D.C., chapter, Overholser addressed the crisis facing journalism in the public interest - and what citizens can do about it. [More]
  
  
• The University of Missouri-Columbia Student-Athlete Advisory Council named Cynthia Frisby, associate professor of strategic communication, one of the four Most Inspiring Professors on campus. [More]
  
  
• Professor Wayne Wanta is helping news organizations and universities in Eastern Europe's former Communist countries develop research methods that could improve understanding of public opinion related to politics, the media and more. Wanta worked with a news media organization in Albania in October 2005 and plans to work with Poland's University of Wroclaw and Slovakia's Comenius University in Bratislava in 2007. [More]
  
  
• Associate Professors Fritz Cropp and Suzette Heiman served as judges for the Spotlight on Excellence contest, an annual awards program of the Council of Rural Electric Communicators and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
  
  
• Professor Emeritus Don Ranly was featured on the cover of Association Publishing magazine in its November/December 2006 issue in an article titled, "Interview with an expert: Don Ranly on what's right (and wrong) with magazine publishing."
  
  
• Betty Winfield gave an invited campus-wide lecture at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg on "Media & Politics: The Coverage of Three Current Examples of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush."
  
  
• The Provost of the University of Missouri-Columbia has appointed Professor Emeritus Byron Scott to direct the University's European Union Center. Professor Scott has been a member of the Center's Academic Cabinet since its founding in 1998.
  
  
• A forthcoming book by Missouri Journalism faculty, titled What Good is Journalism?, will explain and defend the role of the profession in democratic states. Co-edited by Professor Daryl Moen and Professor Emeritus George Kennedy, other contributors include Professor Geneva Overholser, the Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting; Professor Betty Winfield; Associate Professor Sandy Davidson; Professor Judy Bolch; Professor Emeritus Byron Scott; Associate Professor Wes Pippert; Professor Glen Cameron, the Gregory Chair in Journalism Research; Professor Brant Houston; Assistant Professor David Herzog; and Professor Stuart Loory, the Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies. The University of Missouri Press will publish the book, which includes results of a survey on Americans' perceptions of journalism and chapters on the roles of National Public Radio, hometown newspapers, Washington correspondents, investigative and computer-assisted reporting, the history of free expression and advice for citizens on how to find better journalism.
  
  
• The Missouri Association of Publications (MAP), a professional organization affiliated with the Missouri School of Journalism, has named its new awards competition after Professor Emeritus and MAP Founder Don Ranly. The Ranlys will honor excellence in quality print and electronic publications. Ranly, a professor at the School for 31 years and longtime chair of the magazine emphasis, founded MAP in 2004. [More]
  
  
• The MU Alumni Association has named Lee Wilkins, professor of radio-television journalism, and Dalton Wright, board member of the Missourian Publishing Association, as recipients of the 39th annual Faculty-Alumni Awards. [More]
  
  
• Two members of the radio-television journalism faculty and KOMU journalists, Sarah Hill and Gary Grigsby, earned a prestigious Emmy award from the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their in-depth, on-the-scene coverage of life and recovery after the 2004 tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka and Indonesia. [More]
  
  
• Geneva Overholser, the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, published a major study that discusses the role of the press in a democracy and what might be done to enhance it. What is lacking, she reports, is the particular kind of information that keeps free people free. [More]
  
  
• Stacey Woelfel, a radio-television journalism instructor and news director for KOMU, was inducted into the Silver Circle of the Mid-America Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences. He is the first Missouri Journalism faculty member to be so recognized. The Silver Circle is an elite group of professional journalists who have made significant contributions to television. [More]
  
  
• Charles Davis received the President's Award at the 2006 Society of Professional Journalists national convention in Chicago, Ill., for his outstanding contributions to the organization. [More]
  
  
• Debra L. Mason, a nationally recognized, award-winning and widely published specialist in religion journalism, has been named the new director of the Center for Religion, the Professions and the Public at the Missouri School of Journalism. [More]
  
  
• Tom Warhover assumed an exciting new leadership role: Executive Editor for Innovation at the Columbia Missourian. He will lead efforts to transform the daily Missourian and its satellite publications into newsrooms of the future, experimenting with new approaches to content and delivery while honoring the best traditions of public service, integrity and independence. [More]
  
  
• Reuben Stern has been named the new managing editor of the Columbia Missourian. He will oversee the daily operations of the newsroom as it expands its use of technology to deliver news. [More]
  
  
• "Ready, Fire, Aim," a new book by Missouri School of Journalism Associate Professor John Fennell, is a business biography on the life and legacy of printing industry icon Harry V. Quadracci. [More]
  
  
• Coverage of global markets, new technologies, and multiculturalism throughout make the second edition of Public Relations: The Profession and the Practice one of the leading textbooks on the topic. Suzette Heiman, associate professor and director of planning and communications, is one of the co-authors. [More]
  
  
• Missouri School of Journalism Professor Emeritus John Merrill is the author of a new book, Media, Mission and Morality: A Scholarly Milestone Essay in Mass Communication. Designed to be the first in a series, the book explores moral and theoretical issues in the field of journalism. [More]
  
  

Missouri Journalism graduate students earned numerous awards for their professional, scholarly and creative achievements.

• A photo essay by master's student Benjamin Reed won first place in the 2007 Mental Health America Media Awards in the Photo Essay category. He produced the project, titled "Turning Away from the Institution," while on an internship at the St. Joseph (Mo.) News Press. The national award will be presented this summer at the 2007 Media Awards Luncheon in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Master's student David Schneider was one of six graduate students in the nation to win a $7,500 Carnegie Corporation fellowship, which will allow him to work on the Brian Ross investigative team at ABC News for 10 weeks.
  
  
• Master's student Traci Angel, senior Jamie Greber and junior Tara Ballenger were among 18 professionals and students from the state who received an expenses-paid trip to Health Journalism 2007, AHCJ's national conference, held March 15-18 in Los Angeles, Calif. Headquartered at the Missouri School of Journalism, AHCJ is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of health care issues. [More]
  
  
• Master's student Robin Hoecker received one of five Fulbright Beginning Professional Journalism Awards to Germany from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. During her 10-month program, Hoecker will study how photojournalism and citizen journalism can be used to promote dialogue among ethnic groups in Germany. [More]
  
  
• Tayo Oyedeji, a second-year doctoral student at the Missouri School of Journalism, has been named a prestigious Harvey Fellow by the Mustard Seed Foundation based in Arlington, Va. As a Harvey Fellow, he will receive a $15,000 stipend applicable to educational expenses during the final year of his doctoral program. Oyedeji is the first University of Missouri-Columbia student to receive the award and only the second recipient from the Big 12 Conference. [More]
  
  
• Master's student Andrei Pungovschi, a Columbia Missourian staff photographer, had his work featured on the front page of the World Picture News agency's Web site and in the MSNBC Week in Pictures gallery. His subject was the Grand Prix Swim Meet at the University of Missouri.
  
  
• Master's student Isabel Ordonez was featured in the Industry Resources section of the Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc. Web site in a Jan. 5 article titled, "Trading the 'sword' for the pen." The Ecuador native set her country's national record for women's javelin before deciding on a journalism career.
  
  
• Master's student Casey Parks, the winner of The New York Times "Win a Reporting Trip to Africa" contest, accompanied columnist Nicholas Kristof on a 10-day reporting assignment in Africa. [More]
  
  
• The National Newspaper Foundation has named master's student Diana Choksey the new National Newspaper Association/Cruikshank Scholar. The scholarship honors Alan Cruikshank, a Fountain Hills, Ariz., publisher for his commitment to the community and to the profession of community newspapers.
  
  
• After spending the summer interning in Latin America for Reuters, master's student Isabel Ordonez has been named the new general editor of Adelante, the School's bilingual publication for the Mid-Missouri Latino population.
  
  
• Master's student Jim Matheny interned during the summer as a Carnegie Fellow with the ABC News Brian Ross Investigative Unit in New York City. Matheny spent most of the summer working on an undercover investigation of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and its use in terrorist attacks. His story was promoted as the top story during ABC's Sept. 11 primetime special.
  
  
• Doctoral student Uche Onyebadi's fourth book, "Death Has Forgotten Him and Other Stories" has been published by East African Educational Publishers, Ltd., "to meet the supplementary reading needs of students in lower secondary school." This is Onyebadi's second book with EAEP.
  
  
• Doctoral student Rajah Maples-Wallace received a third-place award in spot news from the Iowa Broadcast News Association for her story about prison security after a fall 2005 prison break in Ft. Madison, Iowa.
  
  
• Doctoral student Aimee Edmondson won a Casey Medal from the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families for her article "Born to Die," which she wrote while reporting for the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
  
  
• Master's student Erin Richards won the Best Freelance Feature of the Year Award from the Chronicle of the Horse Magazine for her article about a genetic software program that pairs best-mating mares and stallions. The editors chose Richards' article for the prize because she approached a relatively dry, scientific topic in a creative way.
  
  
• Master's student Isabel Ordonez received an Inter-American Press Association scholarship to continue her studies in the United States.
  
  
• Master's student Ben Poston and Hamilton (Ohio) Journal-News photographer Carrie Cochran received the 2006 Best of Cox Award in the Deadline Reporting Category for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina. After the hurricane hit, Poston, a former Cox employee, traveled to Mississippi and wrote five stories about the tragedy. During the trip, Poston also kept a blog on MyMissourian.com.
  
  
• Missouri Journalism master's student Jia Zhou, of Shanghai, China, is the first convergence journalism student and second international student to receive the David Kaplan Memorial Fellowship, which includes a paid position at the ABC News Bureau in Washington, D.C., and a $10,000 stipend. The School has awarded 14 Kaplan Fellowships. [More]

• The Missouri School of Journalism placed second overall in the 2006-2007 Hearst Journalism Awards Program, a national collegiate journalism competition that culminated with finals held in San Francisco, Calif., June 4-10. Senior Ben Fredman placed second in the national photojournalism competition, and senior Ryan Famuliner was a runner-up in the national broadcast contest. [More]
  
  
• Senior August Skamenca and Matt Wynn, BJ '07, won a 2007 national Edward R. Murrow Award for their month-long collaborative investigation "Dead Voters" that aired on KBIA, the School's NPR affiliate station that serves as a training lab for students. The award is the second for Skamenca, who worked with KBIA news director Sarah Ashworth and former reporter Kyle Palmer, BJ '05, on a story that won the station's first national Murrow in 2006. [More]
  
  
• Five Missouri School of Journalism students and KBIA brought home seven Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists' national competition. [More]
  
  
• Senior newspaper journalism major Cristof Traudes won the 2007 Atwater Prize for Writing, which provides a $500 stipend to one talented writing student each year. [More]
  
  
• Senior Alyssa Appelman won the 2007 Don Romero Prize for outstanding magazine writing, a $350 award given by the Missouri Journalism magazine faculty. Don Romero served on the faculty for many years, and the prize was established by his former students to honor his contributions and to recognize and encourage excellence in magazine writing.
  
  
• Senior Derek Kravitz won second place in the Institute on Political Journalism's Thomas L. Phillips Collegiate Journalism contest for "A Chief Under Fire," a story that ran in the Columbia Missourian in January 2007. The national competition drew entries from 45 states.
  
  
• Ten stories and one staff newscast by Missouri Journalism students are in contention for 2007 national Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists after winning first-place honors in the annual Region Seven competition. In addition, ten other stories earned second- or third-place awards at the regional level. [More]
  
  
• Students from the Missouri School of Journalism swept the 19th-annual College News Design Contest, bringing home 31 awards, more than any other college or university, and capturing first place in both the overall newspaper design and redesign competitions. [More]
  
  
• Junior Guadalupe Martinez, a student member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, has been selected by the NAHJ to participate in their annual conference in San Jose, Calif., in June. Martinez will be working on a student radio and television project, where she will be reporting for the conference's daily broadcasts. She is a transfer student to MU and works on a radio program in Sedalia, Mo., every weekend.
  
  
• Sophomore radio-television journalism major Stacie Thompson won a scholarship worth more than $40,000 from the LIN Television Corporation Minority Scholarship and Training Program. The scholarship pays for Thompson's tuition, room, board and books for two years, in addition to providing internship employment during college and a two-year contract at one of the company's stations after graduation. LIN Televisions owns and operates 29 mid-size stations in the United States.
  
  
• Brandon Butcher, a strategic communication senior, was the winner of a Hesburgh Award for Student Academic Achievement. Given to only one student in each undergraduate class, he received a $1,000 prize and a plaque during a campus ceremony.
  
  
• Senior Jennifer Price won the $12,000 O.O. McIntyre Postgraduate Writing Fellowship, which will allow her to travel with Abraham Lueth, one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan," as he reunites with his family in Kenya and the Sudan. The story is set to be published in The Kansas City Star. [More]
  
  
• Seniors Ryan Famuliner and August Skamenca, along with recent graduates Hayley Salvo, BJ '06, and Bente Birkeland, MA '06, each won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). The stories won in the feature reporting, investigative reporting, best use of sound and news series categories. [More]
  
  
• Seniors Ryan Famuliner and Ryan Kruger placed third and 11th in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program Television Broadcast II Competition, respectively. Senior Matthew Jarzemsky earned fourth in Hearst's Personality/Profile Writing Competition, and sophomore Sean Powers took 14th in the Radio II Competition. [More]
  
  
• Senior strategic communication major Rachel Bailey, of Iberia, Mo., presented her original research on sex appeal in advertising at Undergraduate Research Day at the State Capitol in April. In addition, Bailey's research was accepted to the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in May in San Francisco, Calif. Bailey's faculty mentor is Paul Bolls, assistant professor of strategic communication. [More]
  
  
• Senior Katie Roehrick, a strategic communication major from Kansas City, Mo., received a 2007 Vance and Betty Lee Stickell Internship in advertising. Roehrick will spend 10 weeks working in the advertising department of The Los Angeles Times. In addition, she will receive a $1,500 in May to help cover moving and living expenses and a $4,000 salary over the course of the internship. [More]
  
  
• Ten Missouri Journalism students enrolled in News Producing shared their knowledge and advice about studying at the Missouri School of Journalism with high school students during the Sponsors of School Publications of Greater St. Louis (Mo.) Conference in March. Holly Edgell, associate professor of radio-television journalism and KOMU executive producer, teaches News Producing. [More]
  
  
• Convergence undergrad Matt Sokoloff is one of only 10 college students in the U.S. to receive a $10,000 Top Ten Scholarship awarded by the Scripps Howard Foundation in 2006. [More]
  
  
• Thirteen students in the magazine journalism and newspaper journalism emphasis areas were recognized for outstanding work produced while working at summer internships. Submissions were received from Associated Press London, Reuter's, The Wall Street Journal Online, MLB.com, among others. [More]
  
  
• The 2006 class of Walter Williams Scholars has adopted the stretch of Locust Street from Fifth to Ninth streets in Columbia. The scholars will pick up litter along this patch of road, which passes in front of the Missouri Press Association offices. [More]
  
  
• Missouri students, staff and faculty join together in an unprecedented convergence project called Smart Decision, a multi-media Web site based on the local and state elections. [More]
  
  
• Matthew Haag, a senior newspaper journalism major and business minor from Dallas, Texas, has been honored as the runner-up for the 2006 H.M. Fentress Memorial Award for Editorial Excellence. The annual award is presented by Cox Newspapers to the top two reporting or feature writing interns in the Texas Daily Newspaper Association Intern Program. [More]
  
  
• Missouri School of Journalism sophomore Carolina Escalera was named one of twelve "Lideres de Hoy" (Today's Leaders) and awarded $5,000 through the second Annual Lideres de Hoy National Essay Contest sponsored by Allstate Insurance Company and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). [More]
  
  
• Forty-four freshmen were recognized as Walter Williams Scholars in a recent ceremony, making the 2006 class the largest group ever to become a part of this elite program. To be eligible, students must have earned at least a 33 on the ACT. There are now 117 Walter Williams Scholars enrolled at the School. [More]
  
  
• Megan Rolland, a senior newspaper journalism and political science double major from Grand Junction, Colo., has won the 2006 C.W. Gusewelle Journalism Scholarship. [More]
  
  
• KBIA reporter August Skamenca won the first-place award in the news feature category in the 2006 Public Radio News Director, Inc. awards competition, the only national contest recognizing outstanding public radio news reporting at local stations. His winning entry, "Odyssey of Oppression," examined human smuggling and travel by undocumented workers across the border and through the Midwest. [More]
  
  
• Vox magazine students and a magazine publishing class took home five awards in the 2006 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Student Magazine Contest. [More]
  
  
• Leah Lohse, BJ '06, is one of ten finalists for the highest national award given to young writers on religion. The Chandler Award for the Student Religion Writer of the Year recognizes excellent reporting skills at the collegiate level and a grasp of religion issues that is fair and balanced according to journalistic standards. The award is sponsored by the Religion Newswriters Association. [More]