Missouri School of Journalism

"I hope this work can offer a blueprint for newsrooms, reporters and anyone who thinks remembering the stories of the dead matters," writes RJI Fellow Kristen Hare, BJ '00.

Congratulations to Missouri Business Alert, which has received a $310,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This is Kauffman's sixth grant to the J-School's digital business journalism newsroom. The Kauffman Foundation has been foundational to Missouri Business Alert’s growth and success, said Professor Randall D. Smith, the Donald W. Reynolds Chair of Business Journalism and founder of Missouri Business Alert. Our thanks to the Kauffman Foundation for believing in us. Here's how Missouri Business Alert will use the grant. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade #BusinessJournalism MU Strategic Communication Mizzou

PULITZER PRIZES: Congratulations to the following alumnae who were awarded Pulitzer Prizes this afternoon as individuals or as part of teams: Dr. Marcia Chatelain, BJ ’01, professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University. Chatelain won the Pulitzer Prize in History (Books, Drama and Music) for "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" (Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton; 2020). Jaimi Dowdell, BJ ’01, MA ‘04, investigative reporter and dat...a journalist with Reuters. Jackie Botts, Andrew Chung, Dowdell, Lawrence Hurley and Andrea Januta of Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. Also, we want to give a shout out to AP photo editor Alyssa Goodman, BJ ’13. Although the photography staff of The Associated Press specifically the work of 10 photographers won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, she's one of countless "unsung heroes" text, audio and photo editors who worked on today's winning Pulitzer Prize entries. (Goodman worked on the Columbia Missourian's "100 Ages: A Century of Voices" project back in the day). Did we miss anyone? #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade Mizzou Mizzou Alumni Association 2021 Pulitzer Prize Announcement: https://www.pulitzer.org/a/2021-pulitzer-prize-announcement. List of J-School Pulitzer Prize winners: https://journalism.missouri.edu//mu-j-school-pulitzer-pri/.

Congratulations to master's students Mallory Daily and Leanne Tippett, who've each been awarded a Smith/Patterson Science Journalism Fellowship. This is our first year to award two domestic fellowships, and I think our students found two very important environmental stories to tell, said Sara Shipley Hiles, associate professor and director of the Smith/Patterson Science Journalism Fellowship and Lecture Series. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade #ScienceJournalism Mizzou

Happy Friday! My name’s Seth Bodine. I’m taking over the J-School's Instagram today. I graduated from Mizzou with a journalism master’s degree focusing on investigative and radio reporting in May 2020. Now, I’m an agriculture and rural issues reporter for public radio KOSU Radio in Oklahoma via Report for America. This photo is a flashback to when I was doing a story on a hatchery in Missouri. Follow along with me today to see a day in the life of a public radio reporter! https://www.instagram.com/mujschool/ #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade #PublicRadio #Agriculture

What will we remember from the moments leading up to the election of President-elect #JoeBiden and Vice President-elect #KamalaHarris? Will it be the raw, emoti...onal reactions of voters in the streets, the commentators offering very personal perspectives or will it be Steve Kornacki’s khakis? We ask this all in the form of a question, as we also honor Jeopardy! host #AlexTrebek. From Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News. See more

Thank you to all who have served, including veterans among our faculty, staff, students and alumni. #VeteransDay #MizzouMade

Congratulations to Ryan Berry, BJ '18, who won first place in the 2020 Montana Newspaper Association awards for his feature photo of runners in the Montana Marathon at sunrise. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade #Photojournalism

Remembering Ben Weir Jr., BJ '69, who died Oct. 31. He was 73. His career included serving as publisher of the Examiner in Independence, Missouri, and general manager of the Longmont Daily Times-Call in Colorado. Weir was inducted into the Missouri Press Association Hall of Fame in 1999. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade #LocalJournalism

Congratulations to Associate Professor Robert Greene, filmmaker-in-chief at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism, winner of a 2020 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade #DocumentaryJournalism

Remembering Seymour Topping, BJ '43, foreign correspondent with The Associated Press and The New York Times, who died Nov. 8. He was 98. Writes Harrison Smith, "A review of Mr. Topping’s dispatches serves as a tidy summary of mid-century world events, including the Communist capture of Nanjing in 1949, the Soviet downing of an American U-2 spy plane in 1960, the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and mass killings carried out by the Indonesian military in the mid-1960s. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade Seymour Topping alumni profile: https://journalism.missouri.edu/alum/seymour-topping/.

Good morning! Today is a wonderful day :) My name is Ellie DeBeer and I am a freshman from Highlands Ranch, Colorado (a suburb of Denver). I am double majoring in Broadcast Journalism and Romance languages with an emphasis in Spanish, and I am currently working as a Digital Producer for KOMU 8. Follow along with me today for a glimpse at what a typical Monday looks like for me! https://www.instagram.com/mujschool/#Mizzou #MissouriMethod #BroadcastJournalism

Major Garrett, BJ ’84, chief White House correspondent at CBS News, this morning reports on his network’s projection for the U.S. presidential election. In 1966, The Supremes had a No. 1 hit with You Can’t Hurry Love, noted Garrett. You can’t hurry math either, he said.

Have you received your Mizzou Alumni Association 2021 member calendar? Once again, photos by J-School communications staffer Nate Brown and Professor Stacey Woelfel were winners in MAA's annual calendar photo contest. Next year's calendar also includes two photos from Arin Jemerson, BJ '20, who was a member of Missouri Information Corps, our summer pop-up newsroom. Did we miss anyone? Learn more about MAA at https://www.mizzou.com/s/1002/alumni/19/home.aspx. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade

Remembering Anita Estell, BJ '81, JD '85, who died Nov. 5. The Columbia Missourian featured her during a campus visit in 2017. #MizzouMade Mizzou Alumni Association Announcement: https://www.facebook.com/anita.estell.3/posts/10223853675719407 Missourian story: https://www.columbiamissourian.com//article_6c343a7e-9988-

Instagram takeover: Hello! My name is Alex Fulton and I’m a junior from Pflugerville, Texas (a suburb of Austin). I’m studying Convergence Journalism - Emerging Media and I’m involved with Mizzou Magazine Club and the Journalism Ambassador program. Follow along with me today! https://www.instagram.com/p/CHN1yewn_Gt/ #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade

Sophomore Eli Hoff of Osseo, Minnesota, and The Maneater are featured in a New York Times story on how student newspapers are covering COVID-19 on college campuses. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade

There are four Missourians who helped develop the systems that provide the public with accurate and prompt election night returns, writes Associate Professor Emeritus Phill Brooks. The first Missourian was Elmer Lower, BJ '33, in his role as president of ABC News. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade