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Columbia Missourian
221 S. Eighth St.
Columbia, MO 65201
573-882-5700
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Mission
The Columbia Missourian strives to serve the Columbia community through its journalism, telling the stories of the community while serving as a watchdog for elected officials and university administration. The Missourian also serves as a training ground for journalists and a lab for the broader industry. We strive to prepare students to enter newsrooms as ethical journalists.Â
City editor Fred Anklam works with students Hope Davis and Komlavi Adissem.
The Columbia Missourian has been covering local news for 114 years while training students to become journalists. The Missouri Method gives students opportunities to report, photograph and edit in a deadline-driven, professional newsroom.
Who We Are
The Missourian is managed by nine faculty editors who bring years of experience in newsrooms around the country to the newsroom to serve the community and teach students. Missouri School of Journalism students come to the Missourian as part of their coursework to gain hands-on experience in reporting, copy editing, photography, multimedia, copy editing, photo editing, audience strategy, page design and information graphics.
Third-year student Amy Schaffer, who's studying photo and documentary journalism, shoots action at the Mizzou men's basketball home opener Nov. 7, 2022, at Mizzou Arena.
While our student staff changes each semester, the faculty editors are rooted in the community and work year-round to cover the stories of Columbia. Feel free to reach out to us at anytime.
Meet the staff
The Missourian works in close collaboration and shares newsroom space with the other professional news outlets at the Missouri School of Journalism — KBIA, KOMU 8, Missouri Business Alert and Vox Magazine. We often collaborate on projects and share stories across newsrooms. You might find a Missourian story on KOMU 8 or a KBIA story in the Missourian, for example. The collaboration with our partners expands our coverage and opportunities for stories.
The Missourian is a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News, LION Publishers and the Missouri Press Association.
How we’re funded
The Missourian operates as a 501(c)3, which is overseen by the Missourian Publishing Association. The Missourian Publishing Association board of directors are: Major Garrett, Kia Breaux, Tricia Miller, Karen Miller Pensiero, Mark Russell, Katie Yaeger, Mark Horvit, Kevin Jones, Louis Diuguid, Don Etling, Ben Holden, Veronica Toney, Emily Younker and Jon Stemmle.
The Missourian is funded through subscriptions, ad sales, the Missourian endowment, direct donations and lab fees from the University of Missouri.
Read more about our Conflict of Interest Policy and Editorial Independence Policy.
The Missourian accepts donations to its endowment to support the operations of the Missourian. The Missourian accepts anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization and in compliance with INN’s Membership Standards.
Missourian Donor Transparency Policy
Find the list of Missourian donors who donated more than $5,000 in a year. Anonymous donations in the last five years totaled less than 0.5% of revenue during the last five years.
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The Journalist's Creed
The Journalist’s Creed was written by the first dean of the Missouri School of Journalism, Walter Williams. More than one century later, his declaration remains one of the clearest statements of the principles, values and standards of journalists throughout the world. Plaques bearing the creed are on display at the School, the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (since 1958), and many other locations around the world.
Dean David Kurpius and Todd Lorenz, MU extension field specialist, mount a plaque featuring the Journalist's Creed on a column in the #OneNewsroom on Nov. 11, 2022.
I believe in the profession of journalism.
I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of a lesser service than the public service is betrayal of this trust.
I believe that clear thinking and clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism.
I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.
I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible.
I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one’s own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another’s instructions or another’s dividends.
I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that the supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.
I believe that the journalism which succeeds best – and best deserves success – fears God and honors Man; is stoutly independent, unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power, constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always respectful of its readers but always unafraid, is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance and, as far as law and honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an equal chance; is profoundly patriotic while sincerely promoting international good will and cementing world-comradeship; is a journalism of humanity, of and for today’s world.