Before the parade marches through town and the football team takes the field, College of Arts and Letters will host its annual master class series on Oct. 16 as part of its Homecoming event schedule.

Jennifer Moore will be among those presenters

Journalist, writer comes to MSU for degree in international relations

Moore, a Missouri State graduate student in international relations, is a journalist and writer based out of West Plains. She is the coordinator of theatre and events for MSU-West Plains, and she recently gave Missouri State’s 2015 summer commencement speech.

Life as a foreign correspondent

Moore graduated with honors from the University of Missouri School of Journalism before spending five years in the Persian Gulf region, where she worked as a freelance journalist for CNN-International, NPR, and the largest English daily newspaper in the region, “The Gulf News.”

Seven-time Murrow award winner

After returning to the U.S. in 2007, she worked as a reporter, anchor and assignment editor for the NPR station in Springfield, Missouri, KSMU Radio, where she filed local and national stories on the rural Ozarks. She has received seven Edward R. Murrow awards, the “Excellence in Legal Journalism” award from The Missouri Bar, and the 2014 Honorable Mention for the “Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Journalism” awarded by Syracuse University.

When will she present at Homecoming?

Date: Oct. 16
Time: 2:15 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Plaster Student Union Theater
Admission: Free and open to public
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