REPORTING AND WRITING

PARK SERVICE SEEKS MINORITIES' SUPPORT AS IT MARKS 100 YEARS
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — When Asha Jones and other Grand Canyon interns arrived for their summer at the national park, they were struck by its sheer immensity, beauty and world-class hiking trails. Soon, they noticed something else.
Number of evacuees rises to near 300 in Arizona brush fire
PEEPLES VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — A brush fire pushed evacuations to about 300 as more people fled homes Thursday near Yarnell, an Arizona community where a 2013 blaze killed 19 members of an elite firefighting crew.
MORE THAN THIS MOMENT
COLUMBIA, Mo. — During a historic fall semester at the University of Missouri, Missourian photojournalists teamed up to produce video coverage of the activism on campus.

Regional news coverage from mid-Missouri’s NPR affiliate, KBIA, including:
newscast anchoring
general assignment reporting
show producing

press release:
SENATORS MAKE CHANGES TO AMENDMENT AFTER JOURNALISM ADVOCATES VOICE CONCERNS WITH PREVIOUS DRAFT
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate Wednesday will not aim to redefine what records schools can withhold under federal student privacy law, an issue that worried journalism and open-government advocates when an earlier version of the bill was released.

INDUSTRY WRITING:
AS SCHOOL OFFICIALS WORK TO COUNTERACT CYBERBULLYING, STATE LAWMAKERS ENSURE OFF-CAMPUS PRIVACY ISN’T TRAMPLED
When Riley Stratton was called into the principal’s office, school officials didn’t search her backpack or her cellphone — they searched her Facebook account.