Missouri Journalism Pride Points: 2008-09

• 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.
  
  
  • Michael Abernathy, president, Landmark Community Newspapers
  • Mamdouh Aker, commissioner general, Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights
  • Joel Aldape, operations manager, Social Security Administration
  • Candy Altman, MA '78, vice president, news, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.
  • John Anderson, BJ '87, anchor, Sports Center on ESPN
  • Allison Price Arden, vice president, publisher, Advertising Age/Creativity
  • Doug Baker, president, Bewiki
  • Gail F. Baker, dean of the College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Neb.
  • Jack Bamberger, BJ '85, senior vice president, Meredith Corporation
  • Mustafa Barghouthi, member, Palestine Liberation Organization
  • Joe Bergantino, MA '80, The Center for Investigative Reporting/New England, Boston, Mass.
  • Paul Berning, BJ '70, partner, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, San Francisco, Calif.
  • Dave Berry, vice president, Community Publishers
  • Hania Bitar, director general, The Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation, Ramallah, Palestine
  • Jay Black, PhD '74, professor emeritus, University of South Florida
  • Al Bonner, general manager, Lawrence Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.
  • Susan L. Bostrom, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Cisco
  • Phil Bradley, BS '82, special assistant to the executive director, Major League Baseball Players Association
  • Gina Bramucci, MA '06, International Rescue Committee
  • Miles Brand, president, National Collegiate Athletic Association
  • Kia Breaux, BJ '96, acting bureau chief for Missouri and Kansas, The Associated Press
  • Adam Brown, director of digital communications, The Coca-Cola Company
  • Fred Brown, director of production operations recruitment, ESPN
  • Laura Bryant, BJ '80, Ward IV council member, Creve Coeur City Council, Creve Coeur, Mo.
  • John T. Burklow, associate director for communications and public liaison, National Institute of Health
  • Cimarron Buser, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Texterity, Inc.
  • Jamie Butcher, BA '88, vice president, sponsorships and employee communications, AT&T Communications
  • Steve Buttry, editor, The Gazette and The Gazette Online, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  • Diana Buttu, political analyst and former legal advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization
  • John A. Byrne, MA '76, executive editor, editor in chief, BusinessWeek.com
  • Jann Carl, BJ '82, weekend anchor, primary substitute anchor, senior correspondent, Entertainment Tonight
  • Max Carratura, vice president of finance and business operations, Newsy.com, Columbia, Mo.
  • Yuen-Ying Chan, director and professor, The University of Hong Kong, dean, Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication, Shantou University, China
  • Chris Clark, news editor, Associated Press, Kansas City
  • Scott Clark, BJ '80, vice president and account director, ARC/Leo Burnett, Chicago
  • Katherine E. Clements, senior vice president, television operations, Belo Corporation
  • Janet E. Coats, BJ '84, executive editor and vice president, The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, Fla.
  • Corrice W. F. Collins, BJ '76, station operations manager, WBBM-TV, Chicago, Ill.
  • Tom Contiliano, Bloomberg, New York
  • Jon Cook, BJ '93, president, VML
  • Sarah Copeland, recipe developer, Food Network
  • Doug Crews, BJ '73, executive director, Missouri Press Association
  • Scott Danielson, founder, ANNA
  • Channing L. Dawson, senior advisor, Scripps Network Interactive
  • Everette E. Dennis, Felix E. Larkin distinguished professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Business
  • Susan Dentzer, editor in chief, Health Affairs
  • Katie deSplinter, BJ '05, copy writer, Los Angeles
  • Troy Detel, benefit authorizer, Social Security Administration
  • Brian Distelburger, president, Alpha 411, New York
  • Lewis W. Diuguid, BJ '77, vice president for Community Resources, Kansas City Star
  • Dale Doerhoff, attorney, Cook, Vetter, Doerhoff and Landwehr, Jefferson City, Mo.
  • David W. Dorman, chairman of the board, Motorola, Inc.
  • Ashley Douglas, BJ '06, brand manager, The Richards Group, Dallas, Texas
  • Bob Duncan, district manager, Social Security Administration
  • Linda Eatherton, BJ '72, partner, director, Ketchum
  • Manon Eilts, director of marketing and communications, U.S. Tennis Association-Missouri Valley, Overland Park, Kan.
  • Steve Fainaru, BJ '84, correspondent, The Washington Post, Washington D.C.
  • Cathleen Falsani, religion columnist, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, Ill.
  • Ted Farnon, BJ '87, chief of staff, Missouri State Senator Chuck Graham
  • María Teresa La Porte Fernández-Alfaro, dean, University of Navarro School of Communication, Pamplona, Spain
  • John Ferrugia, BJ '75, investigative reporter, 7News, Denver, Colo.
  • Charlene Fink, AgJ '85, vice president, Farm Journal Media, editor, Farm Journal Magazine
  • John Florek, BJ '03, copy writer, ARC/Leo Burnett, Chicago
  • Jean-Francois Fogel, journalist, consultant, writer, Paris, France
  • Allan Dodds Frank, business investigative correspondent, The Daily Beast
  • Martin Frost, BJ '64, attorney, Polsinelli, Shalton, Flanigan and Suelthaus, Washington D.C.
  • Margaret Wolf Freivogel, founder and editor, St. Louis Beacon, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Lewis A. Friedland, professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisc.
  • Ralph Gage, director of special projects, The World Company
  • Gang Gao, executive dean, School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
  • Manny Garcia, metro editor, The Miami Herald, Miami, Fla.
  • Anne Garrels, senior correspondent, NPR
  • Kim Garretson, BJ '73, general partner, Realist Ventures & Advisory Services, Minneapolis, Minn.
  • Rick Gevers, BJ '75, president, Rick Gevers & Associates
  • Mietra Ghaffari, account supervisor, Factory Design Labs, Denver, Colo.
  • Jeff Giarraputo, founder, LikeMe Networks
  • Mike R. Gibbons, president pro tem, Missouri State Senate
  • Eli Gieryna, communications coordinator for public relations, U.S. Tennis Association-Missouri Valley, Overland Park, Kan.
  • Dan Gilgoff, politics editor, Beliefnet.com
  • Michael Golden, MA '78, vice chairman, The New York Times Company, New York City, N.Y.
  • Garrett Graff, editor at large, Washingtonian Magazine
  • Lamar Graham, BJ '87, executive editor, Parade Magazine
  • Amy Grill, director, college and universities, Current TV
  • James V. Grimaldi, BJ '84, investigative reporter, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
  • Karen Gutierrez, BJ '88, managing editor, cincyMOMS.com, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Jon Haden, BJ '78, attorney, Lathrop & Gage
  • Tim Hanlon, executive vice president/ventures, Denuo
  • Sarah Hansom, BJ '07 brand manager, The Richards Group, Dallas
  • Steve Hanson, chief executive officer, BackstageGallery.com and Hanson, Inc.
  • Irvin Harrell, director of community outreach and newsroom recruitment, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Roy J. Harris Jr., author, Pulitzer's Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism
  • Steve Haynes, president, National Newspaper Association
  • Christopher Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  • Todd Herman, founder and chief executive officer, SpinSpotter
  • Martin Hirst, associate professor, curriculum leader, Journalism, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • Mark Hoffman, president, CNBC
  • Art Holliday, BJ '76, co-anchor and executive producer, KSDK-TV, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Adrian Holovaty, BJ '01, journalist, founder, EveryBlock
  • Lama Hourani, Palestine Media Center
  • Janice Hume, BJ '81, MA '95, PhD '97, associate professor, University of Georgia
  • John Isaac, former United Nations photographer
  • Cathy M. Jackson, PhD '04, assistant professor, Norfolk State University
  • Jason Jenkins, field editor, Rural Missouri Magazine, Jefferson City
  • Tom Junod, writer, Esquire magazine
  • Marc Kempter, BJ '86, founder, CORE, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Gil Klein, director of the Centennial Forums program, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
  • Kim Komenich, MA '07, staff photographer and picture editor, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, Calif.
  • Chris Koster, representative, Missouri State Senate
  • Joel Kramer, CEO and founding editor, Minnpost, Minn.
  • Bill Kuykendall, senior lecturer, University of Maine
  • Wally Lage, MA '71, Rust Communications
  • Catherine Larkin, Bloomberg, New York
  • Chris Law, founder, Aggregate Knowledge
  • Jeff Leen, MA '82, investigative unit reporter and editor, The Washington Post, Washington D.C.
  • Michael Lewis, freelance photographer, Creede, Colo.
  • Adam Liebman, BJ '07, media sales associate, Alpha 411, New York
  • Carol J. Loomis, senior editor at large, Fortune Magazine
  • Jennifer Loomis, MA '97, photographer, Jennifer Loomis Photography, Seattle, Wash.
  • Pam Maples, BJ '79, managing editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo.
  • Stephen Marc, photographer and art professor, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University
  • Dan Margolies, legal affairs columnist, Kansas City Star
  • Eric Maze, assistant news director, KSHB-TV/KMCI-TV, Kansas City
  • Ryan McClure, account supervisor, Fleishman-Hillard, St. Louis
  • Amy McCombs, BJ '68, BJ '69, MA '72, president and CEO, Women's Foundation of California
  • Bob McEowen, managing editor, Rural Missouri Magazine, Jefferson City, Mo.
  • Mike McGraw, BJ '71, MA '72, special projects reporter, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo.
  • Bill McLain, senior account executive, Rhea + Kaiser, Chicago
  • Elizabeth Merrill, columnist, ESPN.com
  • Tony Messenger, State Capital Bureau correspondent, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Ruba Mimi, youth journalist, The Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation, Ramallah, Palestine
  • Russ Mitchell, BJ '82, anchor and correspondent, CBS News
  • Mackie Morris, owner, Mackie Morris Communications
  • Jim Neal, production manager, KSHB-TV/KMCI-TV, Kansas City
  • Kimberly Nordyke, MA '99, reporter, The Hollywood Reporter, Calif.
  • Glen Nowak, chief of media relations, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Bonnie Obremski, fellowship reporter, Representative Journalism (RepJ), Northfield, Minn.
  • Jeff O'Dell, founder, Bewiki
  • Randy Olson, documentary filmmaker and marine biologist, Shifting Baselines, Hollywood, Calif.
  • Elizabeth Osder, MA '94, principal, Osder Group
  • Robert Patrick, reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Ken Paulson, BJ '75, editor and senior vice president, USA Today and USAToday.com
  • Mark Petty, BJ '75, photographer, Mark Petty Photography, St. Petersburg, Fla.
  • Marty Petty, BJ '75, publisher and executive vice president, St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.
  • Cheryl Phillips, board president, Investigative Reporters and Editors, deputy investigations editor, The Seattle Times, Seattle, Wash.
  • T. Boone Pickens, Texas oil and gas executive; architect, The Pickens Plan
  • Russell Pit-og, talent acquisition associate, Crain Communications
  • Lindsay Powers, BJ '04, staff writer-editor, Usmagazine.com
  • Rhonda Prast, MA '81, senior editor, StarTribune.com, Minneapolis, Minn.
  • William C. Price, BJ '63, chairman and chief executive officer, Empower MediaMarketing, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Bob Priddy, BJ '63, news director, The Missourinet, Mo.
  • Shaode Qin, chancellor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • T.J. Quinn, BJ '91, investigative reporter, ESPN
  • Adrian Raine, Richard Perry University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
  • Eli Reed, photojournalist, Magnum Photos
  • Wayne Reuvers, founder and chief executive officer, Live Technology Holdings, Inc.
  • Patricia Rice, contributer, St. Louis Beacon
  • Donna Ricketts, regional human resources manager, Crain Communications
  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, movie reviewer (retired) Chicago Reader
  • Samantha Rudolph, senior manager of resource integration, ESPN
  • Mark E. Russell, managing editor, Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fla.
  • Vicki Russell, associate publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
  • Suhad Sakalla, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
  • Leah Sanders, MA '92, producer, E! Entertainment
  • Janeen Savage, director of recruitment, Weber Shandwick, Chicago
  • John Sawyer, executive director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
  • George Schellenger, MA '87, vice president of content and production, Newsy.com, Columbia, Mo.
  • Kally Schneider, BJ '05, advertising and public relations manager, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Chicago
  • Elaine Sciolino, foreign correspondent, The New York Times, Paris, France
  • Geraldine Sealey, MA '99, articles editor, Glamour Magazine
  • Dave Senay, president and CEO, Fleishman-Hillard
  • Dhavan V. Shah, Louis A. and Mary E. Maier-Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Eman Sharabti, youth journalist, The Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation, Ramallah, Palestine
  • Jane Shifrin, BJ '79, freelance photojournalist, Jean Shifrin Photography, Atlanta, Ga.
  • Mary Shipley, district manager, Social Security Administration
  • Igor Smirnoff, director of strategic development, NewspaperDirect, Inc.
  • Brian Smith, BJ '81, photographer, Brian Smith Miami, Miami Beach, Fla.
  • David L. Smith, BJ '73, MA '75, chief executive officer, SmithGeiger
  • Randy Smith, BJ '74, deputy managing editor, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo.
  • Wallace S. Snyder, president and chief executive officer, American Advertising Federation
  • Jim Spencer, MA '91, president and founder, Newsy.com, Columbia, Mo.
  • James B. Steele, contributing editor, Vanity
  • Brian Steffens, executive director, National Newspaper Association
  • Paul Steiger, president and editor in chief, Propublica
  • Sonja Steptoe, BJ '82, BA '82, client development manager, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
  • Tom Stites, consulting editor, Center for Public Integrity, Newburyport, Mass.
  • Mike Stobbe, health reporter, The Associated Press
  • Brian Storm, MA '95, president, MediaStorm, New York City, N.Y.
  • Bill Tammeus, BJ '67, editorial page columnist, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo.
  • Tom Tercek, co-founder, vice president of business development, Daylife
  • Kathie Thomas, founder and head of the Innovations Group, Fleishman-Hillard, St. Louis
  • Lea Thompson, veteran broadcaster, Investigative Reporters and Editors, freelance, NBC News
  • Wright Thompson, BJ '01, senior writer, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine
  • Kewu Tian, managing editor, Beijing Youth Daily, Beijing, China
  • Seymour Topping, BJ '43, administrator, Pulitzer Prizes, former managing editor, New York Times
  • Max Utsler, MA '73, associate professor, University of Kansas, Kan.
  • Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO, AT&T Mobility
  • Tracy Wakeman, human resources manager, KSHB-TV/KMCI-TV, Kansas City
  • Norman Wave, education manager, The New York Times
  • Robert L. Wehling, global marketing and government relations officer (retired), Proctor & Gamble
  • Alexandra Wharton, vice president of marketing and community, Newsy.com, Columbia, Mo.
  • Richard Willing, public affairs director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Washington, D.C.
  • Michael Wolfson, founder, Rocket Fuel
  • Ray Wong, MA '74, professor, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
  • Christine Xie, MA '01, foreign correspondent, Washington Bureau, Phoenix TV, Phoenix, Ariz.
  • Aihua Yan, president, Qilu TV Station, Jinan, Shangdong Province
  • Kitty Bean Yancey, MA '74, leisure, travel reporter, USA Today
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko poet and filmmaker, Russia
  • Alison Young, investigative reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Ga.
  • Alan Scher Zagier, correspondent, Associated Press, Columbia, Mo.
  • Lawrie Zion, senior lecturer, journalism coordinator, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
  • Andrew Zipern, partner, Rocket Fuel

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.

• Yuyan Ernest Zhang, MA '01, PhD '08, the coordinator of the China programs for the School's International Office, received a University of Missouri International Engagement Award during the spring Chancellor's Global Issues Forum. The award, offered for the first time this year, recognizes faculty, students, and staff who go above and beyond in their international activities on behalf of MU.
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism will recognize its 505 May and August graduates during commencement ceremonies at 6 p.m., Saturday, May 16, at Mizzou Arena. This year's class has 43 Kappa Tau Alpha inductees and 28 Walter Williams Scholars. [More]
  
  
• The interior design of the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism won a gold medal in the education and research category of the IIDA Mid America Design Awards competition. The design and space planning needs, developed by SFS Architecture of St. Louis, required the specification of materials and finishes durable enough for college students, yet aesthetically appropriate for visiting international researchers and guests.
  
  
• KOMU unveiled a new high-definition set design, which will provide more opportunities for student producers, reporters and meteorologists. These new features include: an interactive touch-screen to display animation, moveable maps and graphics; increased in-studio locations and monitors for delivering news and sports reports; and enhanced weather presentation capabilities. [More]
  
  
• More than 200 journalism faculty, students and energy reporters across the country participated in a national "virtual chat" with energy visionary T. Boone Pickens on April 22 at the Missouri School of Journalism and the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI). The discussion about the need to improve and expand the quality of reporting on the science, economics and geopolitical aspects of the energy industry coincided with the Missouri Energy Summit hosted by the University of Missouri System's four campuses, held on the Columbia campus. [More]
  
  
• Newsy.com, a new online video news service, is the first site to compare news sources and provide daily multi-perspective views of the world's news coverage. Working in partnership with the Missouri School of Journalism, Newsy executives work with students to research, write and edit stories. Students also learn and practice state-of-the-art audience development methods such as social media and search marketing. [More]
  
  
• The Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch have created a new scholarship in memory of David Lipman, BJ '53, a longtime reporter and editor for the newspaper. The $5,000 scholarship will be awarded for the first time this fall to a Missouri School of Journalism student. [More]
  
  
• Russ Mitchell, a CBS News anchor, taught a master class and personally accepted the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism on April 3. Mitchell was unable to come to campus when he was awarded the medal in 2007. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism expands its course offerings to the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Journalism professors at the School coordinate curriculum and transmit the class discussions across the state via the Internet. About 170 students attend the class at the Columbia campus, while 22 students attend the class at UMKC. [More]
  
  
• Paul Fisher, BJ '46, MA '47, PhD '50, died March 17, 2009, in Columbia, Mo. He taught journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism and became director of the Freedom of Information Center shortly after its founding in 1958, serving in this capacity until 1989. [More]
  
  
• Global Journalist and a healthcare publication created by magazine journalism students take top awards in the 2009 Missouri Association of Publications statewide contest. Global Journalist's 2008 summer issue was named Best Entire Issue among Educational Institutions, and its Web site, Globaljournalist.org, was named Best Homepage. Global Journalist, an international news magazine published by the School and edited by Patricia Smith, adjunct professor, with oversight by Stuart H. Loory, was named a finalist in four other categories. Giving, a publication of Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, designed, written and edited by journalism students who were enrolled in a capstone-publishing course taught by John Fennell, captured four awards in the healthcare division of the competition. Those prizes include: Best Writing Entire Issue, Best Design Entire Issue, Best Single Written Article and Best Cover. Fennell is the Meredith Chair in Service Journalism at the School. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism received the 11th annual Luka Brajnovic Award for Communication from the University of Navarra Feb. 12, 2009. The award recognizes professional achievement and contribution in the areas of ethical commitment to the truth in the fields of communication, editorial activity, opinion and fiction. [More]
  
  
• Ben Poston, MA '07, began documenting a potential wrongful conviction case as part of an intermediate writing class. His assignment continued well beyond the course, the completion of his master's project and graduation. More than two years after the start of Poston's work, Josh Kezer was exonerated. Poston shared his experience in an exclusive article written for the School, "Missouri Journalism Student Documents Wrongful Conviction." [More]
  
  
• Two reporters at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., won the acclaimed Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism. In a series of stories titled "Living With Cancer," Lindy Washburn and Leslie Brody wrote about themselves, their loved ones and their community in articles that explored the medical and the emotional aspects of cancer. The prize, administered by the Missouri School of Journalism, honors Darrell Sifford, BJ '53. [More]
  
  
• Anne Garrels, a senior foreign correspondent for NPR, taught a master class and personally accepted the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism on Feb. 26. The School awarded the medal to Garrels in 2004; her coverage in Iraq did not permit her to personally accept until this year. [More]
  
  
• Alonso Soto, BJ '05, was named Latin America's Reporter of the Year by international news agency Thomson Reuters. Soto reports from Ecuador. [More]
  
  
• KETC/Channel 9 in St. Louis aired "The President's Roundtable: Communication for a Digital Globe" on Sunday, Jan. 18. The show was an edited version of the Sept. 12, 2008, conversation that took place during the centennial/dedication celebration. Corporate executives, communication experts and citizens, discussed how evolving communication tools, technologies and techniques are changing the world. KETC is the nation's most watched public television station. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism recognized its 134 fall graduates during commencement ceremonies on Dec. 19 at Jesse Auditorium. Brian Storm, MA '95, president of MediaStorm, served as the alumnus speaker. Overall, 31 graduating seniors were recognized with Latin honors. Thirteen students were inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha, a journalism honor society founded at the School in 1910 with the goal of uniting students of exceptional achievement from the nation's leading schools of journalism and mass communication. [More]
  
  
• The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation announced the awarding of a $2 million grant at the Missouri School of Journalism to establish the Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism. The new chair will allow for the expansion of business journalism course offerings at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels. It also will provide for the development of course offerings for working professionals through Missouri's online master's programs. [More]
  
  
• The 2008 Missouri State Tree in the Pathway of Peace will be adorned with official ornaments depicting the Missouri School of Journalism, the world's first, founded in 1908, and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, which was dedicated Sept. 12, 2008. The Pathway of Peace, which surrounds the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C., is a collection of 56 trees that pay tribute to each state, five U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism and New York alumni hosted an event at Standard and Poor's in Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2008. After a time of networking and mingling, guests participated in an interactive discussion about the next century of journalism, led by New York alumni working in news, photography and advertising. [More]
  
  
• The Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences recognized Missouri School of Journalism radio-television journalism students, faculty and staff at the 32nd Emmy Awards gala on Oct. 4 in St. Louis. Students Ashley Reynolds and Charlotte Bellis won in the best student entry category; professors Holly Edgell and Stacey Woelfel and KOMU associate producer Nathan Hurst were nominated in the best newscast category; KOMU photograher Scott Schaefer was nominated in the best photographer category. [More]

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

• Faculty and students at the Missouri School of Journalism presented 36 papers at the International Communication Association conference in Chicago. In addition, the School's alumni presented 33 papers. The ICA is one of the leading communication-related academic organizations in the world. [More]
  
  
• Mike Fancher, a 2008-2009 Fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, hosted a series of four forums on The Journalist's Creed and its relevancy in the 21st Century. The creed, written by Founding Dean Walter Williams in 1914, has served as a statement of principles, values and standards of journalists throughout the world. The discussions were held in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Columbia, Mo., and Portland, Ore.
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism and HCD Research formally announced that they are joining forces to conduct consumer advertising research studies using sophisticated research techniques and advanced online methodologies. The PRIME Lab will collect data to complement the advanced online measures obtained by HCD Research. [More]
  
  
• The study, "Scare 'em or Disgust 'em: The Effect of Graphic Health Promotion Messages," explains how people are turned off by advertisements when they are exposed to both fear and disgust in the same ad. Professors Glenn Leshner and Paul Bolls of the Psychological Research on Information and Media Effects (PRIME) Lab at the School and student Erika Thomas led the study on how fear and disgust affect the viewers of anti-tobacco advertisements. The three researchers measured the physiological responses of 58 viewers while they watched a series of 30-second anti-tobacco ads. The study was published in the journal Health Communication. [More]
  
  
• The National Cancer Institute awarded an $8.6 million grant to the University of Missouri Health Communication Research Center, in partnership with Washington University in St. Louis, to advance health communication that will improve health literacy and health outcomes for at-risk populations. The project, under the direction of Glen Cameron, the Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair in Journalism Research, promotes the importance of ensuring access to understandable health information. [More]
  
  
• Glen T. Cameron, a strategic communication professor, and Qi Qiu, MA '03, PhD '06, recently published Communicating Health Disparities - Building a Supportive Media Agenda. The book helps clarify the crucial role that health communicators and the media play in informing the public and in encouraging behaviors that would help close the racial and ethnic gap in health care. Cameron also serves as the co-director and scientific advisor of the Health Communication Research Center at MU. [More]

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

• Steve Kopcha, an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, was named to the Missouri History Museum Advertising/PR Hall of Fame in St. Louis. [More]
  
  
• The University of Missouri Graduate School presented Esther Thorson, associate dean for graduate studies at the Missouri School of Journalism, the fourth annual Director of Graduate Studies Outstanding Contribution Award. [More]
  
  
• Professor Betty Houchin Winfield is the winner of the 2009 O.O. McIntyre Professorship for excellence in teaching, an annual award presented by the Missouri School of Journalism. Winfield also is a University of Missouri Curator's Professor. [More]
  
  
• In a new book, Health Communication in the New Media Landscape, researchers Jerry C. Parker and Esther Thorson examine how the digital media revolution is affecting health and health care in the United States. [More]
  
  
• Stacey Woelfel assumed the duties of chairman of the Radio-Television News Directors Association at the group's annual meeting in Las Vegas. [More]
  
  
• Jennifer (Moeller) Rowe, associate professor in the MU School of Journalism, was awarded one of the 2009 William T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence. University of Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton, Commerce Bank Chairman Jim Schatz and a group of professors, administrators and staff paid a surprise visit to Rowe's classroom to honor her with the Fellowship, which includes a $10,000 award. [More]
  
  
• Researchers from the Missouri School of Journalism completed a comparison of citizen journalism and traditional media Web sites. The researchers found that traditional media provided more comprehensive news than most citizen journalism sites and that traditional media are more technologically advanced. [More]
  
  
• Professor Emeritus John Merrill published two new books. Call to Order: Plato's Legacy of Social Control (Marquette Books LLC, Spokane, Wash., 2009) warns that decision-making in American government and other institutions in the 21st century is likely to become more authoritarian and will drift away from the democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. Ethical Communication: Moral Stances in Human Dialogue, co-edited with Clifford G. Christians, (University of Missouri Press, 2009) challenges the reader to take seriously the abundance of good ideas in ethics that the human race provides.
  
  
• Charles Davis, associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, is the Scripps Howard Foundation's Journalism Teacher of the Year. He is among the winners of the organization's annual National Journalism Awards, honoring the best in print, Web and electronic journalism and journalism education in 2008. [More]
  
  
• A new book by Professor Emeritus John Merrill, Call to Order: Plato's Legacy of Social Control, has been published by Marquette Press. The book throws light on the reason that freedom of expression always faces great opposition in the world.
  
  
• Professor emeritus John Merrill and Cliff Christians, of the University of Illinois, published Communication Ethics: Moral Stances in Human Dialogue (University of Missouri Press). The book will have some 30 chapters profiling outstanding ethical thinkers such as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hannah Arendt, as well as some old masters such as Nietzsche, Locke, Hobbes and Kant. School faculty members Lee Wilkins and Stephanie Craft contributed to the book.
  
  
• Keith Sanders, professor emeritus of the Missouri School of Journalism, received the 2008 Presidential Award for Distinguished Service to mass communication and journalism from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The award recognized Sanders' long-term leadership in teaching, research and service to journalism education.
  
  
• María Len-Ríos, a member of the strategic communication faculty, serves on the editorial boards of the top three academic journals in the field of public relations. This year she was invited by the editors of Public Relations Review and the Journal of Public Relations Research to join each publication's board. Len-Ríos also is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Strategic Communication.
  
  
• Wayne Wanta presented the lecture, "Agenda-Setting in the Presence of New Media: Theory and Research," at the Vidzeme University College in Valmiera, Latvia.
  
  
• Missouri School of Journalism students and faculty joined professionals from around the region at the Missouri Association of Publishing 5th Anniversary Publishing Summit on March 5 and 6 in Columbia. The two-day professional development activity featured a variety of skill-development workshops on editing, design, publishing/sales and marketing. Keynote speakers were Tom Junod, Esquire magazine, and Jim Spencer, founder and president of Newsy.com. [More]
  
  
• Lee Wilkins, a Missouri School of Journalism professor in the radio-television journalism emphasis area, was awarded one of the University of Missouri's most prestigious honors, a Curators' Teaching Professorship. She is recognized as an expert in the area of media ethics round the world. Wilkins was one of only three in the UM system to receive this honor in 2009. [More]
  
  
• Stephanie Craft, associate professor, has been awarded a Kappa Tau Alpha Chapter Adviser Research Grant in the amount of $750. She is the first Missouri chapter adviser to receive one of the grants. Craft will use the grant to study how journalists critiqued and reported on the news media coverage of school shootings in the United States. [More]
  
  
• Roger Gafke, BJ '61, MA '62, professor emeritus of the Missouri School of Journalism and director of program development for the Reynolds Journalism Institute, was inducted into the Columbia (Mo.) Public Schools Foundation's Hall of Leaders.
  
  
• Larry Powell, director of Mojo Ad, participated with other American and Chinese business leaders in the Business with China: Post-Olympics and Post-Election conference in Honolulu, Ha., in November. His presentation, "The 18-25 YAYA Market: Some U.S./China Comparisons," covered the Missouri School of Journalism's participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and observations/comparisons of U.S. and Chinese YAYAS (youth and young adult markets). Also participating were students in the entrepreneurial program at Chaminade University/Honolulu.
• The Mizzou Alumni Association honored two Missouri School of Journalism alumni and one faculty member at the 2008 Faculty-Alumni Awards during a ceremony on campus on Oct. 10. Winners included Russ Mitchell, BJ '82, CBS News anchor and correspondent, Jean Gaddy Wilson, BJ '86, a leader of national and international media initiatives, and Charles N. Davis, professor and executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition. [More]
  
  

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

• Five Missouri School of Journalism graduate students were recognized at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner for receiving the Association's scholarship. Each of them received a $2,500 fellowship while participating in the School's Washington Program. All tuition costs and fees also were waived for the fellowship. [More]
  
  
• Sara Shahriari, a graduate student in the Missouri School of Journalism, has won the 2009 O.O. McIntyre Fellowship award. Shahriari will use the award in the fall of 2009 to document the land reform process in Bolivia. [More]
  
  
• Master's student Jarrad Henderson was named the Graduate Student of the Year while attending the Big XII Conference on Black Student Government. To receive the award, students must be a member of a black student government or affiliated organization, with a minimum GPA of 3.0, among other qualification criteria.
  
  
• Master's student Bryan Utter won a Google Policy Fellowship, awarded to law students who want an opportunity to explore Internet policy. During the summer of 2009, Utter will work in Washington, D.C., completing his master's project at Media Access Project, a non-profit organization that promotes the public's First Amendment rights in digital media. [More]
  
  
• As a part of her advanced reporting course for the Columbia Missourian, master's student Annee Tousseau reported from the scene of a local watch party held in Columbia during the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama. The Frederick Douglass Coalition and members of Columbia's black community sponsored the event at Nephew's Nite Life. [More]
  
  
• Master's student Teri Finneman joined the ABC News Washington Bureau in January as the 2009 David Kaplan Memorial Fellow. The fellowship is named for Sam Donaldson's field producer who was killed by a sniper in Sarajevo in 1992. Donaldson and the School's Kaplan faculty committee selected Finneman for her five years of political and graduate assistant reporting experience in North Dakota and for the quality of her interviews with Donaldson and the committee. She received $10,000 plus a salary to work in the network's capital bureau during the spring semester.
  
  
• Graduate student Brian Schraum was invited to speak at a conference hosted by the Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University in November. The conference focused on state laws that limit censorship of student media. About 25 student journalism experts from around the nation attended.
  
  
• Graduate student Brian Schraum was recognized by the Journalism Education Association at its Nov. 15 convention in St. Louis. He also accepted the Friend of Scholastic Journalism Award on behalf of Washington State Rep. Dave Upthegrove for the pair's work on legislation supporting the press rights of high school and college students.
  
  
• Two graduate students--one former and one current--won first and third place in the student category of the Society of Environmental Journalists national awards contest. Gavin Off, MA '08, won first place for "Lessons in Leniency," an article published May 6 in the Columbia Daily Tribune while he was still a student at the School. Off is now the computer-assisted reporting editor at the Tulsa (Okla.) World. His story recounted the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' history of reducing penalties filed against large animal farms for pollution violations.
  
  
• The National Association of Hispanic Journalists awarded graduate student Brian Singer a scholarship.
  
  
• As part of her professional master's project, graduate student Emily Younker began oversight of the Columbia Missourian's new race beat, a yearlong project in which six undergraduate reporting students will work with Younker for the duration of the spring semester to explore race in mid-Missouri and what it means to be a minority living in Columbia in 2009.
  
  

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• Three commentaries written by magazine journalism master's students in Mary Kay Blakely's advanced writing students aired on KBIA FM, an NPR-member station during the first week of January. Gretchen Pressley's essay shared how an old political disagreement led to a new family connection. Chad Painter examined one childhood dream that he's giving up, sort of. East Coast native Sara Shahriari explained how she has begun to translate her own coastal indifference into Midwestern friendliness.
  
  
• According to the Autumn '08 edition of Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, graduate students at the Missouri School of Journalism are some of the top producers of research articles in peer-reviewed journalism journals.
  
  
• Two graduate students from the Missouri School of Journalism - one former and one current - won first and third place in the student category of the Society of Environmental Journalists' national awards contest. Their winning entries had been published in the Columbia Missourian and the Columbia Daily Tribune. [More]

• For the sixth year in a row, students in Marty Steffens' Business and Economic Reporting class visited business media and Wall Street landmarks during a four-day tour of New York City. Students networked with alumni at the different media outlets and received "insiders" tours before attending a Society of American Business Editors and Writers fundraiser. [More]
  
  
• Magazine senior Jessica Huang wrote a ten-minute play that was selected as a finalist for Region Five plays; her play was performed at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C. [More]
  
  
• Magazine Journalism student Andrew Astleford won the 2008-2009 Atwater Writing Contest, an annual prize given in memory of former Dean Jim Atwater. Astleford received $600 and a copy of Eudora Welty's memoir "One Writer's Beginnings," one of Dean Atwater's favorite books.
  
  
• Jessica Huang won the prestigious Pullium Journalism Fellowship and will work for the Arizona Republic for 10 weeks this summer.
  
  
• Eleven Missouri Journalism students were selected to receive editing internships through the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. The students were among nearly 80 students nationwide who will work at various news organizations in copy editing, sports copy editing and multimedia copy editing roles. [More]
  
  
• Four Missouri School of Journalism photojournalism students placed in the 2008-2009 Hearst Journalism Awards Program competition. Overall the School placed in the top five of the Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition. [More]
  
  
• Missouri School of Journalism students won 34 awards at the 21th annual College News Design Contest, with the top prize, Daily Designer of the Year, going to master's student Kristin Kellogg. [More]
  
  
• Three radio-television journalism students won three of the seven regional Edward R. Murrow awards given to KBIA and KOMU. The Murrows awards honor outstanding achievements in electronic journalism and are named for the famed broadcast journalist. They are awarded annually by the Radio-Television News Directors Association. [More]
  
  
• The Missouri School of Journalism placed second overall in the 2008-2009 Hearst Journalism Awards Program, one of the most elite national collegiate journalism competitions, and took more than $5,000 in prizes. Top winners included Matt Harris, who won a $2,000 prize for his first in the Personality/Profile category, and Andrew Astleford, who won a $1,000 prize for his third place in Sports Writing. [More]
  
  
• The Society of Professional Journalists honored 13 Missouri School of Journalism students with Region 7 Mark of Excellence Awards, recognizing the best in student journalism. Most of the winning entries were broadcast on the School's radio and television news media. [More]
  
  
• Taylor Rausch, a Missouri School of Journalism junior, was named a 2009 finalist for the Harry S. Truman Foundation scholarship, one of the most prestigious awarded to students pursuing public policy. [More]
  
  
• Teresa Shipley, who will begin her master's degree in journalism in the fall of 2009, won the prestigious Smith/Patterson Fellowship in which she will work with the University of Missouri's Health Communication Research Center on health-related grant projects funded by agencies such as the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health and the Missouri Foundation for Health. [More]
  
  
• The chapter of National Association of Black Journalists at the School of Journalism took a media tour through Washington, D.C. and visited The Baltimore Times, Fleishman-Hillard, The Root, Slate, the Washington Afro-American, The Washingtonian and WTTG-TV among other media outlets. [More]
  
  
• The School's student chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) has been nominated for a 2009 Chancellor's Excellence Award. The award recognizes excellence in leadership, multicultural, and involvement on campus and the community.
  
  
• Magazine journalism student Abby Callard won the 2009 Romero Prize. The $300 cash award is donated by two graduates of the Missouri School of Journalism in honor of Don Romero, a former faculty member, now deceased, who excelled at magazine writing and editing not only in the classroom, but also as a professional before moving to Columbia. The donors wish to honor just one recipient each year.
  
  
• For the second summer in a row, a Missouri School of Journalism student was accepted to participate in the fully funded DAAD interXchange internship for journalism students in Berlin. Paul Weber, a journalism and German major, took part in a structured 11-week study/internship program in Germany, along with 19 other American students. [More]
  
  
• The Associated Press Sports Editors named senior David Ubben to the top 10 in the nation in the under-40,000 circulation, explanatory story category for a story he wrote on an asterisk that appeared, then disappeared, on a trophy housed at Missouri, stating that Iowa State beat Missouri 21 to 16 in a November 2006 football game. [More]
  
  
• The Magazine Club at the University of Missouri School of Journalism visited 16 magazines on a recent trip to New York. [More]
  
  
• Journalism seniors Kyle Spradly and Sam O'Keefe photographed scenes from the January inauguration of Missouri Governor Jay Nixon for the Columbia Missourian. To see their footage of the event, click here: [More]
  
  
• Twenty-six students in the School's London program will complete their spring 2009 semester in London while taking journalism classes and working as interns for the Associated Press, MSN, CNBC Europe, Bauer Media and CBS Europe in addition to a variety of magazines, public relations agencies and publishers.
  
  
• Students at the Missouri School of Journalism produced a 40-page "Top Doctors" issue of Vox magazine that hit newsstands on Dec. 18, 2008. The issue, the largest in the magazine's history, was a collaboration of undergraduate and graduate students who generated every aspect from research, to editing, as well as art design. No other "Top Doctors" magazine issue had ever been produced in Columbia. [More]
  
  
• "The Beat" is a new project by KBIA News and the Columbia Missourian that adds behind-the-scenes perspective and valuable between-the-lines analysis to news stories. Journalism students interview the student reporters and faculty editors about the issues they are covering. Stories that provide a conversation with the editor or reporter are marked with a "The Beat" logo and linked to the KBIA Web site. Assistant Professor and KBIA News Director Janet Saidi and convergence journalism senior Sean Powers are overseeing the project.
  
  
• Journalism students in the Critical Reviewing and the Arts class developed the biographies and discographies for the Feb. 18 performance of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, part of the "We Always Swing" Jazz Series in Columbia, Mo. The local organization received one of only 12 of the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Live grants in the U.S., enabling it to bring world-class performers to mid-Missouri. Jon Poses, MA '80, and coordinator of the Jazz Series, and Andrea Heiss, director of the School's Arts-in-Depth Program, are working with these students throughout the semester.
  
  
• KOMU-TV's bilingual student reporters are reaching out to mid-Missouri's Hispanic community. Radio-television senior Guadalupe Martinez and Geraldine Cols, BJ '06, are among those who post video and written stories in Spanish on KOMU's new en Espanol Web site. Two of the early stories featured a profile on local churches helping new members of the community adjust to life in Missouri as well as in-depth interviews with the area's Hispanic community discussing their roots.
  
  
• Five interdisciplinary teams of Missouri School of Journalism and College of Engineering students along with faculty representatives traveled in early February to Cupertino, Ca., to visit with Apple executives about features embodied in successful iPhone applications. The students making the trip won the first stage of a competition to develop, test and market original applications for Apple's iPhone. Final presentations will be made at the end of the spring semester, and the winning team will attend Apple's 2009 Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. [More]
  
  
• Two print and digital news students placed in the top 10 in the college in-depth writing category of the 49th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program. Sarah Panuska and Rebecca Delaney won sixth and seventh place respectively and earned a $500 scholarship. There were 92 students from 55 universities and colleges who competed in this contest.
  
  
• In mid-January 35 Missouri School of Journalism students attended a conference in Brussels, Belgium, on the future of transatlantic agricultural policy. The University of Missouri's Transatlantic Center hosted the conference, which brought together agricultural economists and directors of agricultural institutions located in America and Europe to discuss agricultural policies practiced in those two countries. Lars Hoelgarrd, the European Commission's deputy director general for agriculture, made the keynote address.
  
  
• Candice Crawford, a radio-television journalism major, has joined the writing staff of Midwest Sports Fans with a weekly column titled "From the Sideline." Crawford has interned for the Dallas Cowboys, hosted "The Blitz" on the CBS affiliate in Dallas and was crowned Miss Missouri 2008. More than 60,000 users visit Midwest Sports Fans each month.
  
  
• Approximately 30 students in the reporting and advanced reporting courses participated in Sounds and Slideshows on Oct. 24-26, a tailored mini-camp designed to provide experience in reporting and editing for audio and still photography. Students created an under-two-minute story about the University of Missouri's Homecoming weekend under the direction of faculty from convergence journalism, photojournalism, radio-television journalism, print and digital news and the Reynolds Journalism Institute Futures Lab.
  
  
• Missouri Journalism students won three out of four Walter Cronkite Scholarships offered by the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The winners were senior Dhomonique Ricks, junior Kevin Lewis and Brooke Wilson. The scholarships will be awarded at the 2008 EMMY® GALA October 4 at the Four Seasons-St. Louis. The merit-based scholarships are intended to assist outstanding college students planning a career in television.
  
  
• UWIRE recently named junior newspaper journalism major Andrew Astleford one of the top 100 college journalists in the country. Advisers and peers nominate students for the honor, which recognizes the student journalists considered to be the best in the country. In a Web site statement, UWIRE general manager Ben French explained the importance of the top 100 rankings. "Taken collectively, the 100 tell us something about the state of media today, and show us the faces who will be telling us the news in years to come," French said. UWIRE is a career service for student journalists that helps them promote their work to a larger audience and establish themselves professionally. Bill Reiter, a sports enterprise writer for the Kansas City Star, commented on Astleford's future on his UWire profile. "Andrew is one of the most talented, hard-working and interesting writers I've met," Reiter said. "Reading his work and visiting with him about journalism makes me believe that, despite all the bad news about the journalism business, the future of our industry is in good hands."