Just don’t ask her to pick her favorite. At The Standard – Missouri State’s student-run newspaper – she’s dug deep with articles on opioid overdoses and blood donation restrictions. For radio, she loved covering Drury University’s Stone Chapel and its organist. While on a missionary trip with her family in West Africa for the 2018-19 school year, she expanded her … [Read more...] about Journalism in all forms
Recent journalism graduate Cortlynn Stark says she spent so much time at The Standard, she started keeping a toothbrush there. As the 2018-19 editor-in-chief of Missouri State's award-winning, student-run newspaper, she built on her experience as a reporter and news editor. To reach her goals for The Standard, she expanded beat coverage. This meant assigning reporters to … [Read more...] about Cortlynn: journalist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4SMmb_sFAM Kevin Agee has always relied on his intuition to lead him in the right direction. In high school, he knew college was part of the plan — eventually, and he had confidence he'd know when it was time. So after graduating, he spent a couple of years working. "There were times when I'd go to bed feeling like maybe it was time for … [Read more...] about Kevin: the way home
Dr. Andrew Cline was supposed to be writing a book. Cline, an associate professor in media, journalism and film said, “I was planning a book about Millennials and Boomers moving back into downtown. But I was sitting with my wife one day, and she said, ‘I noticed you’re not really getting after this project. What’s wrong?’” Well, he explained, he didn’t really feel like … [Read more...] about New documentary explores refugee crisis
The printing presses for Missouri State’s The Standard will be back in action soon as the student-run newspaper heads into the fall semester with incoming Editor-in-Chief Nicole Roberts at the helm. Roberts hopes her experience will guide positive change Roberts, a senior print and Internet journalism major, is from Rolla, Missouri. She graduated high school from nearby … [Read more...] about The Standard’s new editor-in-chief expects to shake things up this year