Journalism is the process of collecting, verifying, curating, interpreting and presenting information about the world by ethical storytellers of the highest quality. This guide offers resources for evaluating sources in order to become an active information consumer and responsible journalist.
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Missouri School of Journalism at MU
120 Neff Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: 573-882-1908
Email: journalism@missouri.edu
Johnathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
243 Walter Williams Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: 573-882-0698
Email: woelfels@missouri.edu
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI)
401 S 9th St, Columbia, MO 65201
Phone: 573-884-9121
Email: rji@rjionline.org
"The online world is full of fake news — fabricated stories set loose via social media with clickbait headlines and tantalizing images, intended for no purpose other than to fool readers and generate advertising revenues for their publishers....The fictions and fabrications that comprise fake news are but a subset of the larger bad news phenomenon, which also encompasses many forms of shoddy, unresearched, error-filled, and deliberately misleading reporting that do a disservice to everyone."
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Vera Elwood
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103A Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Email: velwood@missouri.edu
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Journalism Librarian
103B Reynolds Journalism Institute
Phone: 573-882-0660
email: schiefers@missouri.edu
