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News Releases: January 2006
January 2006
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Jan. 12, 2006: Two Journalism Students Win Hearst Broadcast Awards Missouri School of Journalism students Travis Thompson and Marie Saavedra are among the top 20 winners in the features competition of the 2005-2006 Hearst Journalism Awards for broadcast news. Thompson tied for seventeenth place; Saavedra tied for nineteenth place. The Hearst Journalism Awards Program is presented annually under the auspices of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) with full-funding by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. [More]
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Jan. 17, 2006: Innovative Digital eMprint Delivers Breaking News With a federal court's decision on the public school teaching of "intelligent design" looming in mid-Dec., Nieman Reports Editor Melissa Ludtke knew that her upcoming issue of the quarterly journalism magazine, with a collection of articles about news coverage of the intelligent design debate, would not reach its worldwide audience of journalists before the judge issued his ruling. Using an eMprint newsbook, however - a pioneering digital publishing platform - Ludtke was able to send a section of stories by e-mail to hundreds of journalists worldwide who are Nieman Fellow alumni. [More]
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Jan. 23, 2006: Award-Winning Photojournalist Ami Vitale to Visit Missouri for Lecture Ami Vitale, an award-winning photojournalist best known for her international news and cultural documentation work with Getty, will share insights and tips with Missouri School of Journalism students and other interested persons at an upcoming presentation at 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26, in the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology in Pickard Hall. A reception will follow the 90-minute lecture in the Cast Gallery. [More]
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Jan. 24, 2006: Former Tina Hills Fellow Wins International Award A story with its roots in a journalism master's thesis has won the European Commission Lorenzo Natali Prize in the Latin America and the Caribbean zone. Marina Walker Guevara, MA '05, from Mendoza, Argentina, wrote a 4,000-word account about the environmental and health threats posed by a St. Louis-based mining company, Doe Run Co., in a small Peruvian town in the Andes. Guevara is one of 15 journalists selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe for the Lorenzo Natali award. [More]
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