Jurors praised Donald Miralle's portfolio for its combination of "peak moments with stunning light and composition," as well as for a photo essay about the Ultimate Fighting Championships in Las Vegas.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Denver Post photographer Craig Walker has been named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the Missouri School of Journalism's Pictures of the Year International competition.
Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post achieved premier honors as the 2011 Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the 69th annual Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition.
Now sitting in an airport restaurant waiting to board my flight home, I thought I'd share some of the highlights from this weekend's Mid-America Press Institute workshop 'Managing Change' in St. Louis.
During a span of three weeks, judges for the 69th annual Pictures of the Year International contest in the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism will look at more than 14,000 entries.
Three years ago KOMU pulled the plug on "Pepper & Friends." Now, Pepper is thriving as host of “Radio Friends with Paul Pepper” on KBIA, where he continues to interview the people who put the “friends” in “Pepper & Friends.”
Many of these readers are also reading 'hard copy' rather than online editions. According to the NNA research 74% of those living in communities in which the local paper has a circulation under 15,000 read that newspaper at least once each week.
More consumers are getting news incidentally — that is, in the middle of other, non-news activities. And, according to new research, readers often find joy in the serendipity.
According to the 2011 results of an annual survey conducted by he National Newspaper Association and the research arm of the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, readers in areas served by community newspapers continue to prefer the community newspaper as their source of local news and advertising.