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News Releases: June 2006
June 2006
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June 8, 2006: Rick Shaw Named Director of Pictures of the Year International Rick Shaw, an award-winning photojournalism and design editor, has been named director of Pictures of the Year International (POYi). Shaw teaches newspaper photo editing at the Missouri School of Journalism and also serves as the director of photography for the Columbia Missourian, the student-produced daily newspaper serving Columbia. Shaw has been involved with POYi since he was a student at Missouri, working under former POYi director Angus McDougall. [More]
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June 20, 2006: Jeffrey Dvorkin Named New CCJ Executive Director and Goldenson Chair at the Missouri School of Journalism Jeffrey Dvorkin, the first ombudsman for a major U.S. broadcast news organization, has been named the new executive director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists and the Goldenson Chair of Community Broadcasting at the Missouri School of Journalism. Dvorkin will direct the CCJ's Traveling Curriculum, a training program designed to engage journalists in a critical discussion about what it is they do and why they do it. He will also work to expand the Committee's work to promote standards and engage the public in a common effort to assure the social and economic value of a journalism of verification. [More]
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June 22, 2006: Weinberg Honored with $10,000 McIntyre Professorship for Excellence in Teaching Missouri School of Journalism professor, author and freelance magazine writer Steve Weinberg was recently named the 2006 recipient of the O.O. McIntyre Professorship for excellence in teaching. In his more than 25 years of service at the School, Weinberg has taught courses in investigative reporting, feature writing, arts journalism, criminal justice journalism, business journalism and the initial newswriting course. [More]
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June 23, 2006: Advertising Student Receives $1,500 Scholarship for Community-Based Summer Course Rachael Bax, a senior advertising major at the Missouri School of Journalism, recently received a $1,500 scholarship that will allow her to continue work started by her classmates in an unusual "real life" advertising experience. Bax will work with Rocheport Mayor Brett Dufur, BJ '94, and Rocheport Area Merchants Association president Lisa Friedemann to implement some of the ideas she and her classmates presented. [More]
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June 26, 2006: School's KBIA-FM News Lab Wins Prestigious National Award The Missouri School of Journalism's KBIA-FM news lab has won one of America's top journalism awards. "What's on the Line?" earned a national 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award in the small-radio market news documentary category from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The story is an account of how residents living along the New Madrid fault line in Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas are preparing for an earthquake disaster. [More]
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June 26, 2006: Journalism Student Sarah French Crowned Miss Missouri Sarah French, a radio-television journalism junior at the Missouri School of Journalism, has been crowned Miss Missouri for 2006. French will take a leave of absence from her studies to devote her time to her Miss Missouri appearances, press conferences and preparation for the national title. She anticipates traveling more than 50,000 miles to fulfill her engagements around the state. French will also travel to Los Angeles to participate in the filming of the reality television show, "Finding Miss America." [More]
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June 28, 2006: Expanded Media Career Fair to Benefit Students and Employers The Missouri School of Journalism's sixth annual Media Career Fair will be held Oct. 18-19. The fair gives current journalism students a chance to meet with potential employers and recruiters, gain practice interviewing, form connections with industry professionals, receive resume or portfolio feedback, and to gain overall insight into their future career options. [More]
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June 29, 2006: Media Convergence Student Wins a $10,000 Scripps Howard Top Ten Scholarship Matt Sokoloff is one of only 10 college students in the U.S. to receive a $10,000 Top Ten Scholarship awarded by the Scripps Howard Foundation in 2006. A senior from Orlando, Fla., Sokoloff is studying media convergence journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. Missouri Journalism students have won this prestigious national award for five years in a row and six out of the eight years it has been given. [More]
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June 30, 2006: Salvo Named 2006 RTNDA Fellow, Wins National Internship at CBS Radio News Hayley Salvo, a senior radio-television journalism major at the Missouri School of Journalism, was named the 2006 Rob Sunde Fellow at the recent Radio and Television News Directors Association's annual conference. She will graduate magna cum laude in Aug., and was inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha, a national journalism honor society that accepts the top ten percent of each graduating class in May. [More]
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