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The University of Mississippi Meek School of Journalism and New Media has awarded the Samuel S. Talbert Silver Em Award, the highest award given to journalists by the university, to Patsy Brumfield.
Brumfield, a Mississippi native and Ole Miss graduate, said she is honored.
“I was really surprised and pleased and really excited,” she said. “It was something I had always hoped would happen.”

Since 2006 when Felipe Calderon became leader of Mexico, an estimated 40,000 people have been killed as a result of drug violence along the United States-Mexico border. 

In a recent bout of violence, a journalist was beheaded for the remarks she made on her weekly blog.

Every September RAINN, or Rape Abuse Incest National Network, goes out to different big cities and campuses to promote protection from sexual assault.
Elwyn Lopez directed the “RAINN Day” event at Ole Miss this year.
“As a journalist, I believe you should shine light on issues that are unspoken and that most people don’t really talk about,” Lopez, a journalism senior, said.
This year was Lopez’s first time working with RAINN, but it was not her first charity work.

It’s here again — the political candidates campaigning like mad people in lieu of the upcoming August primaries. Every other commercial on local television is a political advertisement that begs for your vote. The advertisements can be clean, but most are not. The mud-slinging political campaigning is at an all-time high, but that is nothing new. It is the way American politics has been for the last 200 years. 

Not many businesses have survived long enough to celebrate their centennial anniversary. The Daily Mississippian has lasted through 18 presidents and six wars, and is one of the oldest and largest student newspapers in the United States.

Those young journalists have gone on to do great things, with many working for newspapers, magazines and other media around the world.

I never thought that after spending five years working as a journalist in one form or another, I would ever bring up a challenge to free speech. Then on March 23, last Tuesday, a large truck came rolling through campus bearing an approximately seven-foot tall image of an aborted fetus.

Each time the truck drove past the windows of my classroom, I tried not to look. To ensure they were not being ignored, the anti-abortionists repeatedly used a loudspeaker to continue drawing attention to their truck.

Having an open mind is a good practice. Keeping the portal accessible to different ideas and varying opinions helps one see the broader picture, the horizon beyond the obvious.

At least, so I’ve been told.

At the 25th annual Southeastern Journalism Conference, University of Mississippi students took home a total of 17 awards in Troy, Ala., over the weekend. Alex McDaniel won as College Journalist of the Year.

Judges selected McDaniel for the top award, which was accompanied by a $1,000 prize, based on an essay about commitment and responsibility, three articles she wrote for The Daily Mississippian in her senior year and letters of recommendation.

The Ole Miss International Justice Mission is showing “The Dark Side of Chocolate,” a documentary that exposes the use of child slavery in the chocolate industry.

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