J-Day at the University of Missouri

In partnership with the Missouri Interscholastic Press Association, the Missouri Humanities Council (MHC) will host a Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Exhibition at the annual “Journalism Day” (J-Day) celebration on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. Approximately 1,500 – 2,000 high-school journalism students and their faculty advisors are expected to attend. These student-journalists represent over 50 schools across the state of Missouri and will receive awards for excellence in journalism as well as workshop training in various aspects of journalism and student-run newspaper development.

Additionally, MHC will present two, 45-minute workshops for student-participants:

• The first workshop features an exhibition Daniel R. Fitzpatrick and Bill Mauldin’s editorial cartooning (both are two-time Pulitzer Prize winners). This workshop will be led by Dan Martin, current cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
• A second workshop led Randy Picht, Executive Director of the Reynolds Journalism Institute, will teach “News Literacy in the Digital Age” with a focus on the use of drones in journalism. His lecture is entitled, “Pulitzer Prize for Best Use of Drones?—It Could Happen”