The Ozarks News Journal, a news magazine about public affairs issues in the Ozarks produced by media, journalism and film students, has expanded its coverage to include television stations in St. Louis and Kansas City. The show, which has aired on Mediacom-22 every weekday and KOZK-TV every Sunday since it began in Fall 2009, now airs on Time Warner Cable channel 17 in Kansas City and KDHX-TV-980 in St. Louis.

Read the whole story by Phillip George on the College of Arts & Letters Blog: http://blogs.missouristate.edu/coalexpressions/2011/10/11/ozarks-news-journal-expands-coverage-receives-awards/

We are off to one of our best years ever, winning three Society of Professional Journalism awards in Region 7 (Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas), earning the incredible distinction of Best Newspaper and 1st Place Sweepstakes Prize in the overall Missouri College Media Association Awards, and eight 1st Place and five Honorable Mention Awards in the Missouri Broadcast Education Association student Competition.   These come on top of winning eight awards in the national Broadcast Education Association competition (4th most awards of any school competing in this festival of Medi