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News Releases: 2009 Calendar Year
November 2009
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Nov. 2, 2009: Student Work Recognized in Statewide Competition The Columbia Missourian received 28 awards - including seven first-place winners - in the 2009 Missouri Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest. The winners were announced during the recent 143rd MPA Convention in Kansas City. [More]
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October 2009
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Oct. 27, 2009: Doctoral Student Rachel Young Named 2009 Paul Synor Fellow Rachel Young, a first-year doctoral student at the Missouri School of Journalism, is the 2009 Paul Synor Fellow. Her research emphasis is in health communication, specifically addressing disparities in preventive care among adolescents and children. [More]
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September 2009
August 2009
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Aug. 24, 2009: McKean Leads Team that Wins Award in National Technology Competition A University of Missouri team led by Mike McKean, associate professor and director of the Reynolds Journalism Institute's Futures Lab, won a national 2009 Campus Technology Innovators Award in the Information Technology Funding category. The group's new interdisciplinary fund fosters innovation and entrepreneurship. [More]
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July 2009
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July 27, 2009: Vox Wins Four Awards in National Student Magazine Contest Vox magazine as well as several Missouri School of Journalism magazine journalism students have won awards by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in the annual student magazine contest. This year Vox earned recognition in the following categories: online magazine, design, investigation and analysis, and service and information. [More]
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July 20, 2009: KOMU Faculty Win a National Edward R. Murrow Award Sarah Hill, BJ '93, and Scott Schaefer, BJ '04, have won a national Edward R. Murrow Award in the feature reporting category for "The Magic Tree," part of the "Sarah's Stories" series. The Radio-Television News Directors Association, the industry's leading trade organization, sponsors the competition. [More]
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June 2009
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June 15, 2009: New iPhone Application a Hit at Apple Global Conference Anthony Brown, a Missouri School of Journalism convergence journalism senior, and other members of Team NearBuy showcased their innovative mobile phone application recently at Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference in San Francisco. [More]
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June 2, 2009: Four Revenue Generators That Newspaper Publishers Overlook Researchers at a Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) conference developed four tools newspaper publishers can use to increase revenues and profits. The approaches were presented at a recent forum that brought together newspaper executives and experts in news research. [More]
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June 1, 2009: 11 Missouri Journalism Students Win Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Editing Internships Eleven Missouri Journalism students have been selected for the prestigious 2009 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund summer internships. The students were among the 78 undergraduate and graduate students picked to work as multimedia, sports or newspaper copy editors. Each student will receive pre-internship training and pay at their news organizations for 10 weeks. [More]
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June 1, 2009: Amy Lenk, Longtime Graduate Adviser, Retires After working at the Missouri School of Journalism for 35 years, Amy Lenk retired on May 31. Lenk began working as a secretary in the School's graduate studies office in 1974. [More]
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May 2009
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May 19, 2009: Missouri Faculty, Students Present 36 Papers at ICA Conference Missouri School of Journalism continues to be well represented in research on the national scene, as 36 papers written or co-authored by current students and faculty were accepted for the upcoming International Communication Association convention in Chicago. [More]
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May 13, 2009: Sara Shahriari Wins $12,000 O.O. McIntyre Fellowship Sara Shahriari, a graduate student in the Missouri School of Journalism, has won the 2009 O.O. McIntyre Fellowship award. Shahriari will use the award in the fall of 2009 to document the land reform process in Bolivia. [More]
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May 13, 2009: Journalism Library to Be Rededicated on Friday, May 15 The 1:30 p.m. ceremony in Room 100-A of Reynolds Journalism Institute will honor Dean Frank Lee Martin, for whom the library is named. On hand will be Sam Montague, BJ '36, a Louisiana State student Martin admitted to the School to support freedom of the press. [More]
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May 7, 2009: RJI Student iPhone Competition Winners Announced Missouri School of Journalism senior Anthony Brown was a member of the winning team of the RJI iPhone Student Competition. Team members receive a free trip to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco in June. [More]
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May 5, 2009: KBIA, KOMU Faculty and Students Win Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards Faculty and students of two of the Missouri School of Journalism's news outlets recently won seven regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, competing against professional news organizations throughout the area. KBIA, an NPR-member station, won five awards, including one in the category of overall excellence. [More]
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April 2009
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April 30, 2009: Missouri School of Journalism Students Develop, Market Real World iPhone Applications Last September more than 70 University of Missouri students started the competition to develop, test and market native iPhone applications. The project is co-sponsored by the Reynolds Journalism Institute, Apple and AT&T. Judges will pick the main prize winner, but the team that wins the People's Choice will keep the coveted iPhones. The public is invited to vote until 6 p.m. Thursday, April 30. [More]
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April 28, 2009: 13 Students Honored with SPJ Region 7 Mark of Excellence Awards The published work of 13 Missouri School of Journalism students has earned Region 7 Mark of Excellence Awards, a competition sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists for the best in student journalism. Several students received multiple awards. [More]
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April 27, 2009: KOMU-TV Rolls Out New Studio Set Design KOMU-TV unveiled a new high-definition set design this April, which provides unique opportunities for the station's news team and new learning experiences for the more than 150 journalism students who prepare for their industry careers at KOMU 8 each semester. [More]
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April 22, 2009: Graduate Student Earns Prestigious Smith/Patterson Fellowship in Health Communication Teresa Shipley, who will begin her master's degree in journalism in the fall of 2009, won the prestigious Smith/Patterson Fellowship in which she will work with the University of Missouri's Health Communication Research Center on health-related grant projects funded by agencies such as the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health and the Missouri Foundation for Health. [More]
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April 16, 2009: Two-Day Event to Explore Solutions to Journalism's Most Pressing Challenges The Reynolds Journalism Institute will host "Building New Tools, New Business Models and New Jobs," an opportunity to hear the reports of the 2008-2009 Fellows, learn the winners of the iPhone competition, discuss the next generation of e-readers and more. UM President Gary Forsee will be among those participating. [More]
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April 9, 2009: 25 Members of the School's Chapter of National Association of Black Journalists Visit News Media, Meet Alumni, during Trip to Washington, D.C. The group's impressive itinerary took them to the Washington Afro-American, The Baltimore Times, Slate, The Root, Fleishman Hillard, WTTG-TV, among other news media outlets. [More]
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March 2009
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March 20, 2009: MU Cross-Cultural Journalism Course Available in Kansas City via Internet Video The Missouri School of Journalism expands its course offerings to the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Journalism professors at the School coordinate curriculum and transmit the class discussions across the state via the Internet. About 170 students attend the class at the Columbia campus, while 22 students attend the class at UMKC. [More]
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March 17, 2009: Life Stories: Paul Fisher, Alumnus, Former Professor and Director of the Freedom of Information Center Paul Fisher, BJ '46, MA '47, PhD '50, died March 17, 2009, in Columbia, Mo. He taught journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism and became director of the Freedom of Information Center shortly after its founding in 1958, serving in this capacity until 1989. [More]
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March 6, 2009: Magazine Club Visits 16 Magazines in New York Twenty members of the Magazine Club at the Missouri School of Journalism, along with magazine journalism professors Steve Weinberg and Michael Grinfeld, traveled to New York on a recent trip to visit the offices of 16 magazines. [More]
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March 4, 2009: Missouri Journalism Student Documents Wrongful Conviction In fall 2006 Ben Poston enrolled in an intermediate writing class, hoping to learn how to be a better writer. His assignment, a potential wrongful conviction case, continued well beyond the course, the completion of his master's project and graduation. In February 2009, more than two years after the start of his work, Josh Kezer was exonerated. In his own words, Poston shares his experience. [More]
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February 2009
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Feb. 27, 2009: Winners of the Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism Announced Two reporters at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., are the latest winners of the acclaimed Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism. In a series of stories titled "Living With Cancer," Lindy Washburn and Leslie Brody wrote about themselves, their loved ones and their community in articles that explored the medical and the emotional aspects of cancer. [More]
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Feb. 23, 2009: Anne Garrels, an NPR Senior Foreign Correspondent, to Accept Missouri Honor Medal and Host Master Class Anne Garrels, a senior foreign correspondent for NPR, will visit the Missouri School of Journalism on Thursday, Feb. 26, to teach a master class and accept the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, which the School awarded Garrels in 2004. The medal, first given in 1930, is one of journalism's most prestigious awards. [More]
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Feb. 17, 2009: Upcoming Forums to Evaluate The Journalist’s Creed in the 21st Century Mike Fancher, a 2008-2009 Fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, will host a series of four forums on The Journalist's Creed and its relevancy in the 21st Century. The discussions will take place in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Columbia, Mo., and Portland, Ore. [More]
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Feb. 5, 2009: Magazine Journalism Students Produce a 40-Page "Top Doctors" Issue In what is believed to be a first for a journalism school, a faculty-led, student-staffed weekly city magazine partnered with a journalism class to publish the Top Doctors issue for the city of Columbia, Mo. The tabloid-size publication hit the newsstands on Dec. 18, 2008. [More]
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January 2008
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Jan. 30, 2009: NFOIC Awards New Grants to State Coalitions The National Freedom of Information Coalition awarded new grants at its December board meeting in Columbia, Mo., and it is an impressive list of worthwhile activities and projects that will be funded. Meeting for the first time at the brand-new Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, the NFOIC board awarded eight grants to eight coalitions for a total of $69,820 in this the first of two grant award periods. [More]
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Jan. 29, 2009: Upcoming Seminar Will Focus on Improving Print and Electronic Publications A slate of award-winning journalists will discuss how to enhance print and electronic publications at the upcoming Missouri Association of Publications 5th Anniversary Publishing Summit. The event will be held Thursday and Friday, March 5 and 6, at the Holiday Inn Select Executive Center in Columbia. [More]
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