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News Releases: February 2006
February 2006
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Feb. 1, 2006: School Welcomes Two New Faculty Members The Missouri School of Journalism welcomed two new professors to its Radio-Television Journalism faculty this semester. Holly Edgell is an assistant professor and executive producer at KOMU. Sarah Ashworth is an assistant professor and the news director at KBIA radio, one of the most successful National Public Radio stations in the nation. [More]
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Feb. 1, 2006: Newspaper Journalism Student Named Best Intern in National Editing Program Missouri School of Journalism student Diego Sorbara has been chosen as the 2006 Ed Trayes Scholar, an honor given to the best intern in the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund's intensive copy editing summer program. Sorbara, the award's second recipient, received a $1,000 scholarship. Approximately 100 students participate in this national internship program each year. [More]
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Feb. 6, 2006: New PRIME Lab Web Site to Facilitate Sharing of Media Effects Research With the launch of the new PRIME Lab Web site, faculty, students and other scholars will have an easier way to share data and other information about media effects research. The PRIME (Psychological Research on Information and Media Effects) Lab is equipped to conduct advanced research on how different features of media messages affect attention, emotion and memory. [More]
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Feb. 6, 2006: Two Journalism Students Win Hearst Writing Awards Missouri School of Journalism student Dusty Luthy and recent graduate Elspeth Reeve are among the top 20 winners in the in-depth writing competition for the 2005-2006 Hearst Journalism Awards. Luthy won seventh place in the competition; Reeve tied for twentieth place. [More]
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Feb. 13, 2006: BBDO Managing Director to Deliver Raymond M. Solomon Memorial Lecture Nancy Hill, executive vice president and managing director of BBDO New York, will be the 2006 Raymond M. Solomon Memorial Lecture speaker. Hill oversees BBDO's largest accounts, including HBO and Visa, and helped launch the "Life Needs" and "Want a better Internet" campaigns for AOL. Her talk will begin at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16, in Fisher Auditorium. [More]
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Feb. 13, 2006: Professional Experience, Networking Benefit Students in Washington Program Divya Abhat, a Missouri Journalism master's student, is meeting influential Washington journalists, visiting newsrooms and other professional sites, networking with alumni and taking advantage of the museums, historical points of interest and other treasures in the nation's capital. Abhat is one of a record 22 students enrolled in the Washington Program, now in its nearly 40th year. [More]
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Feb. 14, 2006: Missouri Students Tour Top European Media Outlets Thirteen students from the Missouri School of Journalism spent the first two weeks in Jan. touring some of the finest European capitals, museums and media outlets in Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium; Madrid, Spain; and Frankfurt/Heidelberg, Germany. This was the third year the School has sponsored the European Study Tour. [More]
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Feb. 14, 2006: Ten Missouri Journalism Students Win Dow Jones Editing Internships Ten Missouri Journalism students have been selected for the prestigious 2006 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund summer internships in newspaper copy editing and sports copy editing. The students were among the 115 students selected from an applicant pool of more than 600. [More]
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Feb. 20, 2006: Missouri SPJ Student Chapter Receives $1,000 Grant for Ethics Week The student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the Missouri School of Journalism recently received a $1,000 grant to host a program for Ethics Week. The monies will help sponsor a weeklong focus on the topic of "Seek Truth and Report It" during SPJ Ethics Week, April 24-29. [More]
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Feb. 27, 2006: Missouri-Moscow State Faculty Collaborate to Offer New Convergence Course Seven Missouri School of Journalism faculty are working with 13 Moscow State University faculty in Russia this semester to teach a media convergence journalism course modeled on the School's new sequence in this area. The new course being offered to 50 MGU students brings together American and Russian teachers who specialize in different aspects of journalism, including photography, radio, television and print reporting, graphic design and Web publishing. [More]
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Feb. 27, 2006: Two Missouri Graduate Students Receive Health Journalism Fellowships Missouri School of Journalism graduate students Natalie Fieleke and Leslie Yingling are among the 20 recipients of the 2006 AHCJ-Missouri Health Journalism Fellowships. The Association of Health Care Journalists, which moved to the Missouri School of Journalism last summer, granted the fellowships to Fieleke and Yingling to support their attendance at Health Journalism 2006, the seventh national conference of AHCJ. [More]
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