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News Releases: June 2005
June 2005
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June 3, 2005: KOMU-TV News Director Meets with President Bush Stacey Woelfel and other members of the board of directors of the Radio-Television News Directors Association met with President Bush on Wednesday. During the hour-long discussion, the president demonstrated his support for free speech, acknowledged the importance of local media in shaping public debates, but stopped short of endorsing a federal shield bill for journalists. [More]
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June 10, 2005: Ethnic Groups Process Breast Cancer Information Differently, MU Researcher Finds Recent studies indicate that while more Caucasian women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, the survival rate among African-American women is lower than Caucasian women. This may suggest that media messages encouraging women to engage in risk prevention work better for Caucasians than African Americans. Now, a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher has found that spirituality, risk perception and self-worth play key roles in how different ethnic groups process media messages and engage in self-detection of breast cancer. [More]
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June 20, 2005: Overholser Co-Authors Book on the Press and Democracy Geneva Overholser recently co-edited The Press, a volume in the new Oxford University Press series, Institutions of American Democracy. Esther Thorson, associate dean for graduate studies, has an essay published in the book entitled "Mobilizing Citizen Participation." [More]
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June 20, 2005: Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards: 2005 Winners and Finalists Announced The Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, the oldest and best known feature writing and editing competition in American newspapering, is sponsored and administered by the Missouri School of Journalism. Each year trophies and prize money totalling $18,000 are awarded to writers and editors and newspapers. [More]
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June 21, 2005: School Reorganization Approved The Missouri School of Journalism will have a flatter organizational structure effective Aug. 1. The new faculty groups, each led by a faculty chair, will be Advertising Faculty, Electronic Journalism Faculty, Convergence Journalism Faculty, Journalism Studies Faculty, Magazine Journalism Faculty, Newspaper Journalism Faculty and Photojournalism Faculty. [More]
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June 22, 2005: MU Journalism Student Wins $10,000 Top Ten Scholarship Diego Sorbara is one of ten outstanding journalism students to receive a $10,000 Top Ten Scholarships awarded by the Scripps Howard Foundation. Sorbara previously won the Student Society for News Design competition and is at The Hartford (Conn.) Courant this summer as a Dow Jones intern. [More]
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