Tag: Columbia Daily Tribune
Navigating the pitch
New questions, but plenty of promise Introductions in the time of COVID-19 can be a bit of a sticky wicket. Faces are masked … or seen through Zoom boxes. Handshakes, if they weren’t already, are relics of the past. Thus, delivering and catching the subtleties and nuances of communication can get sunk or lost on … Continued
Challenge Accepted! How to optimize digital election coverage for engagement? Make it digestible
Missouri School of Journalism students partner with media organizations to solve problems they face. Challenge Accepted!
Team tasked with solving The Associated Press challenge wins business journalism competition
A University of Missouri team tasked with increasing awareness, bringing in more customers and monetizing the health and science vertical at The Associated Press won the 10th annual Entrepreneurship and Media of the Future Symposium competition. The competition brought together graduate students from the Missouri School of Journalism and Trulaske College of Business to tackle … Continued
Tyus Monroe: A Talk Story, Write Story success story in progress
Tyus Monroe is a 2017 graduate of Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri. She believes teachers aren’t engaging young black male students as much as other kids. That’s why she wants to become a teacher. “If I can do my part to get more black males in the graduating class, I’m going to do that … Continued
AP’s Kia Breaux passionate about helping young people pursue college dreams
“I am the end result of the Talk Story, Write Story program’s mission,” said Kia Breaux, Midwest Regional Director of The Associated Press based in her hometown of Kansas City. “I certainly could have benefited from this program, and I know many others who could have as well.” She offered her remarks during a day-long … Continued
Tad’s tender trap
Originally published on The Columbia Daily Tribune website Tad Bartimus has a way of getting you tangled up in her universe. You say “yes” to some little request, and next thing you know you are helping to save the world. I first met Tad when she was an undergraduate J-School student at Mizzou and I … Continued
Developing storytellers strengthens community
Originally published on The Columbia Daily Tribune website Journalism should strengthen the communities it serves and help the members of those communities lead better lives. Journalists believe an informed citizenry leads to a stronger democracy, that they should speak truth to power, give voice to the voiceless, stand up for the average man and woman, … Continued
Art in the newspaper: Love, guns and kiwis
The goal of my fellowship at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is to explore how journalists might find new uses for and maximize the dormant advantages of analog media by “thinking like artists.” As an artist who happens be a former Associated Press reporter, I’ve thought often about ways these two professions overlap — … Continued
Volunteers and community newspaper boost local teens’ chances of winning college scholarships
They arrived early on a Saturday morning — not the usual hour for teenagers — and found the only open door along the quiet, cavernous hallway of an empty Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri. Stomping snow from boots and rubbing chilled hands together, they found us in the media center and sat down, one … Continued
Community collaboration key to successful launch of Talk Story, Write Story in Missouri
Mentoring program that helps high school seniors prepare for college entrance essays is a new way to engage with community