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Columbia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri. Founded in 1821, it is the principal city of the five-county Columbia metropolitan area. It is Missouri's 4th most populous with an estimated 128,555 residents in 2022.
Robert Lee Holden Jr. is an American politician who served as the 53rd governor of Missouri from 2001 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1993 to 2001 and represented the 136th district in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1983 to 1989. Since leaving public office, Holden has worked at Webster University, where he founded the Holden Public Policy Forum, and serves as the president and chairman of the United States Heartland China Association.
The Washington Missourian is the Franklin County newspaper based in Washington, Missouri. The paper is owned by Missourian Publishing Company, a family-owned company. James L. Miller, Sr. purchased the paper in 1937. In addition to news stories in Washington, the paper covers the nearby cities of Union, St. Clair, and Pacific, as well as local stories from the surrounding areas. It is the most read local paper inside Franklin County and is available and read in many St. Louis County cities, such as Eureka. The paper contains obituaries from as far back as 1939.
Melvin Eugene Carnahan was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 51st Governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in 2000. Carnahan was a Democrat and held various positions in government.
Roger Byron Wilson is an American politician who briefly served as the 52nd Governor of Missouri from October 16, 2000, to January 8, 2001. Wilson was serving his second four-year term as lieutenant governor and was preparing to retire from elected public service when Governor Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash on October 16, 2000. Wilson first became acting governor and was sworn in as governor when Carnahan’s death was confirmed.
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE) is an American nonprofit organization that focuses on improving the quality of journalism, in particular investigative journalism. Formed in 1975, it presents the IRE Awards and holds conferences and training classes for journalists. Its headquarters is in Columbia, Missouri, at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. It is the largest and oldest association of investigative journalism.
The Missouri School of Journalism housed under University of Missouri in Columbia is one of the oldest formal journalism schools in the world. The school provides academic education and practical training in all areas of journalism and strategic communication for undergraduate and graduate students across several media platforms including television and radio broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, photography, and new media. The school also supports an advertising and public relations curriculum.
Walter Williams was an American journalist and educator. He founded the world's first journalism school at the University of Missouri, and later served as the university's president. An internationalist, he promoted the ideals of journalism globally and is often referred to as "The Father of Journalism Education".
The Columbia Missourian is a digital-first newspaper based in Columbia, Missouri, published online seven days a week and in print five days a week. The newspaper is affiliated with the Missouri School of Journalism, and is owned as a 501c3 non-profit under the Missourian Publishing Association. Students enrolled in staff classes produce the newspaper, which is managed by working professionals who also serve as professors.
The Student Press Law Center (SPLC) is a non-profit organization that aims to promote, support and defend press freedom rights for student journalists at high schools and colleges in the United States. It is dedicated to student free-press rights and provides information, advice and legal assistance at no charge for students and educators.
John Ferrugia is an investigative reporter who is currently working as a journalist/trainer for the non-profit Colorado News Collaborative (COLab). He is the former News Anchor and Managing Editor for Rocky Mountain PBS in Denver, Colorado. From 1992 through February 2016, he worked as an investigative reporter at KMGH-TV. He is a former CBS News correspondent. In the 1980s, he covered the White House, foreign and domestic assignments, and was a principal correspondent for the news magazine West 57th.
The University of Missouri is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".
Richard F. "Rick" Shaw is the director of Pictures of the Year International (POYi), a photojournalism program, and an educator in visual journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is a former manager and senior editor at several daily newspapers in the United States.
In 2015, a series of protests at the University of Missouri related to race, workplace benefits, and leadership resulted in the resignations of the president of the University of Missouri System and the chancellor of the flagship Columbia campus. The moves came after a series of events that included a hunger strike by a student and a boycott by the football team. The movement was primarily led by a student group named Concerned Student 1950. The movement and protests were documented in two films, one made by MU student journalists and the other, 2 Fists Up, by Spike Lee. While it is alleged that bad publicity from the protests has led to dropping enrollment and cutbacks, others have cited budget cuts issued from the state legislature.
Ron Mott is an American television news correspondent. He formerly worked for NBC News, and was a regular contributor to Today, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC.
Pam Johnson was the first woman to serve as managing editor of The Arizona Republic, the 15th largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest newspaper in Arizona. She was also the first female managing editor of The Republic's sister newspaper, The Phoenix Gazette. In addition to her newspaper management career, Johnson worked at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Florida and then as executive director of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism, starting in 2004. Johnson, who died in January 2021, graduated from Missouri School of Journalism in 1969 with a bachelor's degree.
Sara Walsh is an American politician who served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives, representing the 50th district from 2017 to 2023.
Sara Parker Pauley is the director of the Missouri Department of Conservation and former president of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies. In each of those roles she was the first woman to serve.
Columbia, Missouri, held an election for Mayor of Columbia, Missouri, on April 5, 2016.
Mark Maassen is business executive specializing in selling advertising for newspapers and a 1980 Bachelor of Journalism (BJ) graduate from the Missouri School of Journalism. He has been the Executive Director of the Missouri Press Association since 2015 after two years as Assistant Executive Director and 33 years in advertising and management with the Kansas City Star. He also served as president of the board of directors of the Missouri Press Association in 2013.
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- ↑ "Home". Missouri Press Association. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
- ↑ "Missouri Press Association | American journalism organization | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
- ↑ "Missouri Press Association (CA6189)" (PDF). files.shsmo.org. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ↑ Jessica Sherwin (29 June 2015). "Missouri Press Association names new executive director". Columbia Missourian . ISSN 0747-1874. Wikidata Q123912787.
- ↑ Ryleigh Hindle (26 September 2023). "Columbia Missourian wins 81 Missouri Press Association Awards, the most ever for the Missouri School of Journalism's community newspaper". Missouri School of Journalism . Wikidata Q123910499.
- ↑ Missouri Press Association, Wikidata Q123910698
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