Things are heating up this summer at the Missouri School of Journalism. Earlier this month, we announced the newest class of Missouri Honor Medalists: Global CEO of VML and WPP Creative Jon Cook; influential news executive and philanthropic leader Alberto Ibargüen; and acclaimed reporter and anchor Judy Woodruff, who spent decades as one of the most recognizable faces of PBS NewsHour. They will accept their awards in Columbia on Sept. 23, but you don’t have to wait that long to read more about them and catch up on what’s going on at the world’s first and finest journalism school.
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Missouri Regional Reporting Fellowship |
Senior Jake Ciancio is the inaugural recipient of the J-School’s Missouri Regional Reporting Fellowship. Funded by alumna Laura Barnitz, BJ ’86, the program combats expanding news deserts by placing journalism students in underserved communities where they gain valuable community reporting experience. This summer, Ciancio is covering business, sports and local news for Cape Girardeau’s Southeast Missourian.
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Two J-School alums recently landed prominent roles at KSDK, NBC’s St. Louis news station. Denisha Thomas, BJ ’11, is now the station’s news director, stepping into a role once held by fellow alum Art Holliday, BJ ’76. Landon Burke, BJ ’15, is a new co-anchor. Follow Thomas and Burke on Instagram as they share highlights from their journeys.
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Claire Rounkles, BJ ’18, PhD ’25, has earned the prestigious 2026 Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize from the American Journalism Historians Association. As the first Mizzou student to win the award, her doctoral dissertation examines how the Midwestern Black press covered lynchings and advanced journalistic innovations like photojournalism and investigative reporting between 1890 and 1940.
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| Missouri Method in Action
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In early May, students from the J-School and the College of Arts and Science led an oral history tour across the Mizzou campus. Using historical 1930s and 1940s audio recordings digitized with the help of a Missouri Humanities Council grant, the class brought campus history to life. The students also produced “audio portraits” that aired on KBIA-FM.
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| Promoting Post-grad Success
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Zoe Naylor, MA ’26, has won the Richard J. Stelzer Starter Stipend Award, a $3,000 prize for her compelling personal statement detailing how she pushed herself beyond feature writing into data and investigative reporting at the J-School. The award was launched last year with a gift from Richard J. Stelzer, MA ’73.
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| Relishing the Weinermobile
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University of Missouri alumna Camila Fowler, BJ ’25, just spent a year as an Oscar Mayer Hotdogger. After graduating, Fowler traveled around the country in a 27-foot fiberglass wiener-on-wheels known as the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, putting her Missouri School of Journalism training to work in a role that blends public relations, content creation and community engagement.
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| Picture-perfect homecoming
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Lisa Krantz, Ph.D. ’24, has returned to the J-School as its newest assistant professional practice professor in photojournalism. The Pulitzer Prize-winning visual journalist brings decades of professional experience and a passion for picture stories into the role, where she will make an impact in the classroom as a teacher and in the field as she assists with the storied Missouri Photo Workshop.
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