Posted in News on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The Society of Professional Journalists Regional Conference will be held in the city of New Orleans March 28 and 29. The University of Mississippi’s Public Relations Department issued the following press release yesterday.
OXFORD, Miss. - Four University of Mississippi journalism faculty members are program participants for the six-state Society of Professional Journalists Regional Conference [...]
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Posted in Faculty, Views on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Starting this week, MBlog will publish Professor Joe Atkins’ state-wide column which appears in Mississippi newspapers.
“Mississippi’s `closed society’ and immigrants … “
By JOE ATKINS
OXFORD – Forty-four years ago, Ole Miss history professor James W. Silver put a tag on Mississippi that stung hard but proved true enough to serve even today as a
bitter [...]
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Posted in News on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Rheta Grimsley Johnson, syndicated newspaper columnist and our 1992 Silver Em winner, will be at Square Books Thursday.
Here’s some info from her publicist:
Rheta Grimsley Johnson will be at Square Books on Thursday, March 20
at 5pm. She’s there to celebrate publication of her new memoir, Poor
Man’s Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana. An engaging
speaker, she’ll [...]
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Posted in Alumni on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
The Mississippi primary yesterday brought more than the elections to the city of Oxford. It brought one of our own: Shepard Smith, the Fox News Network anchor who studied under the late Jim Pratt at the Department of Journalism in the mid 80s. For two days (Monday and Tuesday) Smith anchored both his [...]
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Posted in Media, News, Students on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »
MZine (the j-dept. on-line magazine) presents a complete guide to the issues that matter most to the voters of our state prior to the March 11 Mississippi Primary. In a special issue of the magazine, the j-department students cover three important issues regarding the upcoming presidential primary: the issues, the donations, and the [...]
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