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2001 Missouri Honor Medal Winners
The Glasnost Defense Foundation provides legal support and advocacy to mass media in Russia. Established in Moscow in 1991, the GDF has established and supported ten regional Legal Defense Centers around Russia. There is also a monitoring network in all CIS republics. Staffed by lawyers and other professionals, the Centers conduct day-to-day monitoring of media rights abuses around Russia and the CIS. The GDF's lawyers advise media personnel on their legal rights and give counsel and support when violations of media laws occur. The GDF also provides analyses and recommendations on media law to the Russian legislature as well as media and legal professionals. The Foundation works in cooperation with the following committees of the Russian State Duma: on information policy and communication, on legislative process, and on public associations and religious organizations. The Foundation also works with the State Prosecutor's Office. The GDF organizes educational seminars for journalists, legal professionals, and human rights activists on media law and legal safety measures. GDF lawyers also give lectures on media law as guest teachers at Russian universities.
In recognition of its courageous, systematic and continuing defense of the thousands of Russian journalists fighting, against great odds, on behalf of free and independent news media in Russia.
Jay Harris
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Jay Harris is the former publisher of the San Jose Mercury News. As publisher of the Mercury News he emphasized more coverage of community life, and highlighted Silicon Valley business and high technology news. He was also instrumental in the launch of weekly Spanish and Vietnamese language editions. Harris stunned the newspaper industry in March when he resigned from the Mercury News to protest budget cuts by the paper's parent company, Knight-Ridder. His 30 years in journalism have seen him working in almost every role in the field, including as a reporter, editor, educator, and corporate executive. While at Northwestern University, he designed and launched the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual census of minority employment in newsrooms, which remains an industry benchmark to this day. His work has won him acclaim from many institutions, including honorary doctorates from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Santa Clara University in California.
In recognition of more than 30 years in journalism as reporter, editor, educator and media executive in which he constantly set the highest standards of personal character, independent and original thought and professional performance.
MissouriNet is a statewide commercial network that provides news, sports and special programming for more than 70 radio stations in Missouri. MissouriNet is the model used by other statewide radio news agencies. From its bureau in Jefferson City, MissouriNet covers the legislature and state government. With the help of affiliate correspondents MissouriNet reports news from throughout the state. MissouriNet is a division of Learfield Communications, which was founded by Clyde G. Lear, MA '68. Lear started the company in 1972 as an outgrowth of his journalism master's project at the University of Missouri. Bob Priddy, BJ '63 is the news director for MissouriNet. During the course of his 25-plus years as news director, he has been a leader in the effort to open Missouri's government to its citizens to listen to legislative debate on the World Wide Web.
In recognition of nearly three decades of providing service to the citizens of Missouri through timely, objective and imaginative coverage of news, sports and special programming to radio stations throughout the state.
RTNDA, the world's largest and only professional organization exclusively serving the electronic news profession, is made up of more than 3,000 news directors, news associates, educators and students. Its purpose is to set standards of news gathering and reporting. Although news techniques and technologies have changed since the early years of its founding, RTNDA's commitment to encouraging excellence in the electronic journalism industry remains the same. Founded as a grassroots organization in 1946, it now has over 3,000 members in 30 countries, as well as student chapters in 30 universities nationwide. The RTNDA publishes Communicator an award-winning monthly magazine for its members. It also recognizes achievement in electronic journalism with numerous awards and prizes, including the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award.
In recognition of 55 years of commitment to excellence in broadcast journalism, through public service, educational and training programs through which broadcast journalists set for themselves the highest standards of public service journalism.
Kenneth Smith is a Missouri native, a School of Journalism alumnus and the founder and former president of Kenneth Smith Advertising. In 1971, he founded his company in Rockford, Ill., which became one of the largest advertising agencies outside of Chicago, serving clients in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin. He moved the agency to San Diego in 1975, where it became one of the city's largest agencies and successfully competed against much larger firms for many regional and national accounts. The agency closed in March 2000 after he was diagnosed with leukemia, but he is now in 90% remission. He is still an active supporter of the School of Journalism, a member of the Jefferson Club, and has hosted a roundtable, "Understanding the New Russia," attended by 250 journalists and scholars.
In recognition of his long record of creative and innovative approaches to advertising, his skillful blending of entrepreneurship with service to clients and community, and his loyal service to his University.
John Walsh
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John Walsh is senior vice president and executive editor of both ESPN and the ESPN Internet Group. He has been executive editor of ESPN since December 1990, overseeing all studio and informational programming and being involved in the creative development of a variety of projects including The ESPY's, ESPN.com, and the news and information elements of ESPN2. He has also overseen the launch of ESPN The Magazine and ESPN radio. Under Walsh, ESPN's news and information programming has won 25 CableACE Awards and 28 Sports Emmy Awards. In his career he worked in almost every medium from newspapers, including Newsday, and the Washington Post, and magazines, including Rolling Stone and Inside Sports. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1968.
In recognition of his visionary work in transforming and enlarging the scope of sports journalism, and of his continuous record of excellence in newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalism.
Deborah Willis
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Deborah Willis is Professor of Photography at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and a former Associate Director for Research and Collections at the Smithsonian's Center for African American History & Culture. Her publications on the history of black photography have become the foundation for scholarly work in the field. In recognition of a quarter-century of documenting the black experience in photography, she was named a 2000 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Her current exhibition at the Smithsonian, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, combines the work of renowned black photographers of the past with that of contemporary figures.
In recognition of more than a quarter of a century of innovative and meticulous scholarship that has helped explain to the world the significance of African-American photographers' work over the past 160 years.
Dalton Wright
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Dalton Wright is the president and owner of Lebanon Publishing Co., Richland Publishing Co., Ozark County Times Publishing Co., Webster County Publishing Inc., and the Pulaski County Democrat Inc. Wright also owns six Internet provider companies in Missouri. A strong advocate of advancing the quality of journalism, he also serves on the Columbia Missourian Board of Advisors. After returning from a career as a Navy bomber pilot in Vietnam, he soon became the owner of the Lebanon newspaper that had previously belonged to his father. Since then, he has been the first Missourian to be president of the National Newspaper Association since Walter Williams founded it, and served as president of the Missouri Press Association. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1966 with a degree in business.
In recognition of dedicated personal service to his community through the best in community journalism, to his profession through national leadership, and to his University through generous gifts of time and energy.
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