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• Loving and doubting journalism at the same time: a University of Missouri survey of public attitudes toward journalism reveals a complex pattern of responses.(Words & Reflections)

  - 2005-06-22

  Americans have a more positive--and more complicated--set of attitudes toward journalism than the recent wave of criticism would suggest. A study from the University of Missouri School of Journalism shows that the consumers of U.S. journalism respe Americans have a more positive--and more complicated--set...

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• Love us, hate us

  - 2005-05-02

  A NEW STUDY FROM THE University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia shows that Americans have somewhat of a love-hate attitude toward journalism, but it's not as bad as many portray it. The survey says most Americans believe news coverage is biased and negative, but 62 percent consider...

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• Coming events--.(Who, What, When & Where)

  - 2004-03-31

  * "Spend a Day with Don Ranly: Reinventing Print," April 21, 2004, Ayres Country Inn & Suites, Costa Mesa, CA, sponsored by the Southern California chapter of NEPA. Don Ranly, renowned University of Missouri journalism professor and expert on writing, editing and publishing (and...

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• Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Tony Messenger Column.

  - 2004-02-10

  By Tony Messenger, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 10--On the very week that Missouri newspapers are basking in Sunshine, the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism patted itself on the back for keeping a secret. That's...

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• Neighbors in the news.(Neighbor)

  - 2003-08-19

  - Melissa Renee van Dusen of St. Charles was recently awarded the Millard Miaienthal Memorial Scholarship by the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. Van Dusen is a junior journalism major who was recently named to the Rho Phi Council for the university's Panhellenic...

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• Society chooses 2002 Pulliam/Kilgore FOI interns

  - 2002-06-01

  INDIANAPOLIS -- The Society of Professional Journalists has selected the 2002 Pulliam/Kilgore Freedom of Information interns. Mike Sherry of the University of Missouri and Amanda Lehmert of Emerson College will work 10 weeks this summer for the Society researching and writing about freedom of information issues. They also...

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• Height Rules

  - 2000-10-16

  Need help predicting the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential race? Get out a tape measure. In the last 12 presidential elections, the shorter candidate has won only twice. "Tallness in males is traditionally associated with greater credibility, perceived strength, masculinity, and authority," says Esther Thorson, a journalism dean at...

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• Chuck Stone awarded University of Missouri journalism award for distinguished service

  - 1996-11-18

  Veteran newsman Chuck Stone, Walter Spearman professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC, has been awarded the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The medal is one of the oldest...

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