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News Releases: February 2004
February 2004
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Feb. 9, 2004: KOMU Celebrates 50 Years of News Coverage and Community Service KOMU, an NBC-affiliate, is the only commercial television station in the United States that uses its newsroom as a working lab for students. The station's news department is operated by the Missouri School of Journalism. Missouri's electronic news graduates serve in all capacities -- anchors, executive producers investigative reporters, general assignment reporters and in management -- for major network and cable channels and at television and radio stations throughout the country. [More]
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Feb. 9, 2004: Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Grant Largest Ever for University of Missouri The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation announced today the awarding of $31 million to the Missouri School of Journalism for the creation of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, a center that will focus on advanced studies of journalism and its role in democratic societies. The award is the largest private donation ever to the University of Missouri.
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Feb. 13, 2004: Journalism Codes of Ethics Now Focused More on Financial Success, J-School Researchers Say For the past 15 years, the public's perception of the news media has been becoming more negative, causing historic professional stress for journalists. The industry has moved from privately owned to publicly traded and toward conglomeration of ownership in order to maximize profits. Readership of newspapers and viewership of broadcast news have fallen. A new study by researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia found that changes to the journalism code of ethics have played a significant part in the negative perception of today's media. [More]
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Feb. 13, 2004: Journalism Student Places First in Hearst Competition Carolyn Szczepanski, BJ '03, won first place in the in-depth writing category of the 44th Annual Hearst Journalism national competition for her report, "The Once and Future River." The story ran in the Columbia Missourian, the working newspaper lab for students in news-editorial, design, information graphics and photojournalism. [More]
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Feb. 18, 2004: Larry Powell Joins Journalism Faculty Larry Powell has joined the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism as an Assistant Professor, Professional Practice. He will teach introductory and advanced visual communication courses. Previously Powell was the president of his own advertising and marketing firm called Larry Powell & Associates, which he founded in Dallas in 1993. [More]
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Feb. 19, 2004: School Creates New "Media Convergence" Sequence Plans to offer a new "media convergence" sequence to Missouri School of Journalism undergraduate students beginning in the fall 2005 semester are under way. Media convergence is defined as some form of cross-media cooperation, usually involving broadcast stations, print outlets and Internet sites. [More]
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Feb. 24, 2004: Broadcast News Student Selected as Finalist for ESPN Anchor Reality Show Broadcast news senior Mike Hall has been selected as one of 12 finalists to star on ESPN's reality show "Dream Job." Hall, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., was chosen from more than 10,000 contestants who competed through three rounds of preliminary auditions that were held in 29 cities. ESPN experts evaluated the auditions, critiquing the candidates' work in writing, sports knowledge and overall presence. [More]
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