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News Releases: August 2009

August 2009

Aug. 4, 2009: Seven to Receive the Prestigious Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism Six prominent media leaders and a pioneering online publication will receive one of the profession's highest honors, the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, from the Missouri School of Journalism. The 2009 medalists will be honored on Tuesday, Oct. 20, on the University of Missouri campus. [More]

Aug. 11, 2009: 12 Journalism Students to Help Report at the 2009 China Open in Beijing Twelve Missouri School of Journalism students will have the opportunity to help develop stories about the best tennis athletes in the world at the 2009 China Open. The students' work will be published in the Beijing Youth Daily, CCTV Channel 5 and the China Open Web site. [More]

Aug. 12, 2009: Strategic Communication Professor Named President of the American Academy of Advertising Shelly Rodgers, associate professor of strategic communication at the Missouri School of Journalism, has been elected president of the American Academy of Advertising. Her term as president will begin Jan. 1 and end on Dec. 31, 2010. [More]

Aug. 12, 2009: Winner of Biotech University's Reporting Contest to Receive a Free Trip to Europe An all-expense-paid blogging trip to Europe in 2010 is the grand prize awaiting some talented J-School student as part of a unique workshop and reporting contest on biotechnology being held this fall on the University of Missouri campus. [More]

Aug. 17, 2009: Health Journalists Utilize Audience, Other Media to Build News Agenda, MU Researchers Find Approximately one-fifth of Americans follow health news very closely, according to the Pew Research Center. The researchers found that health journalists determine what information is newsworthy by examining the work of their peers and the issues raised by their colleagues and audiences. [More]

Aug. 17, 2009: Award-Winning Journalist Randy Smith Named First Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism Award-winning journalist Randy Smith will be the first Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. He begins his responsibilities when the semester starts on Aug. 24. [More]

Aug. 19, 2009: The Society of Professional Journalists Selects the School's Chapter as One of the Best in the Nation The Society of Professional Journalists has selected the Missouri School of Journalism's student chapter as one of the best in the nation. The regional awards will be presented during regional meetings on Friday, Aug. 28, at the 2009 SPJ Convention & National Journalism Conference in Indianapolis. [More]

Aug. 19, 2009: Kyle Stokes Earns a National Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists Kyle Stokes, a junior in the convergence journalism program at the Missouri School of Journalism, will receive a 2008 national Mark of Excellence Award at the Society of Professional Journalists' upcoming convention. [More]

NABJ Students Interviewing Tampa Bay Buccaneer

Aug. 20, 2009: Students Network and Produce Stories While Attending Three Prominent National Journalism Conventions Nine Missouri School of Journalism students sharpened their reporting skills and networked with professionals at the annual conventions of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association this summer. [More]

Aug. 21, 2009: Angus McDougall, a Legendary Force in Photojournalism, Dies Angus W. "Mac" McDougall, a legendary force in photojournalism, editing and education, died in Columbia on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. He was 92. [More]

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]

Aug. 25, 2009: Reynolds Journalism Institute Receives $15 million from Donald W. Reynolds Foundation The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri School of Journalism has been awarded a five-year $15 million gift from the Las Vegas-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. This is the third largest gift ever awarded to the University of Missouri. [More]

Aug. 26, 2009: Online News Garners More Attention from Readers if It's Negative and Localized, MU Study Finds Led by Assistant Professor Kevin Wise, researchers in the Missouri Journalism PRIME Lab found that news about local health threats increased attention and memory in readers more than news about distant, or non-local, health threats. [More]


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