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News Releases: April 2008
April 2008
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April 7, 2008: Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Awards 11 Missouri Journalism Students with Summer Internships The prestigious Dow Jones Newspaper Fund has awarded 11 Missouri School of Journalism students summer internships in news, sports and news wire copy editing. Each student will receive pre-internship training and a weekly salary for the 10-week internship. Interns who return to college full time the following fall will receive $1,000 scholarships from the Newspaper Fund. [More]
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April 9, 2008: J-School Alumnus Steve Fainaru Awarded Pulitzer Prize Six Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to The Washington Post on Monday, one of which went to a Missouri School of Journalism alumnus. Steve Fainaru's 10-part series on how private security contractors in Iraq operate outside many of the laws governing U.S. Forces won the award for International Reporting. Fainaru, 46, graduated from the School of Journalism in 1984. [More]
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April 14, 2008: MU Journalism Professor to Direct USC Journalism School Geneva Overholser, currently an endowed chair for the MU School of Journalism at its Washington, D.C. bureau, has been named the director of the journalism school at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Overholser said that although she will miss her MU colleagues and her students in Washington, D.C., she is ready to embrace the administrative responsibilities of her new position. [More]
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April 18, 2008: President and CEO of Fleishman-Hillard to Deliver Raymond M. Solomon Memorial Lecture Dave Senay, president and CEO of Fleishman-Hillard, will deliver the 2008 Raymond M. Solomon Memorial Lecture at 10 a.m., Monday, April 21, in Fisher Auditorium at the Missouri School of Journalism. Headquartered in St. Louis, Fleishman-Hillard is part of Omnicom Group Inc., a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. [More]
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April 23, 2008: Woelfel Selected as Chairman-elect for RTNDA Stacey Woelfel was elected national chairman-elect of the Radio-Television News Directors Association at its recent meeting in Las Vegas. He will produce the 2009 RTNDA convention. An associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, Woelfel also serves as news director for KOMU-TV, the only university-owned commercial television station in the United States that uses its newsroom as a working lab for students. [More]
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April 23, 2008: Centennial/Dedication Registration Now Open Registration for the Sept. 10-12 Missouri School of Journalism Centennial and Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute Dedication is now open, and alumni and friends will begin receiving packets within the next few weeks that include an event guide, the registration form and other informational pieces. [More]
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April 25, 2008: Sponsorship Opportunities Now Available for the 2008 Centennial/Dedication Celebration Founding dean Walter Williams opened the world's first school of journalism on Sept. 14, 1908. One hundred years later, as the Missouri School of Journalism celebrates its centennial, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute will open its doors. Sponsorship opportunities are now available to allow companies and organizations to congratulate the School and the Institute on these milestones and to help fund important conversations about the future of journalism. [More]
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