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| MU PR Professor Maria Len-Rios Photo Credit: Journalism.Missouri.edu |
Congratulations
to Maria Len-Rios, a Public Relations professor from the University of Missouri
that will join Grady College faculty in August 2014. She earned second place in
ComSHER’s 2014 Article of the Year Award. Her paper, written with colleagues
Amanda Hinnant and Rachel Young, “Journalistic Use of Exemplars to Humanize Health News” was published in Journalism
Studies earlier this year.
Her paper was one of 6 shortlisted
and judged by a panel of 7 judges consisting of past ComSHER heads, journal
editors, associate editors, and full professors. After review, the judges came to
the decision based on the article’s fine contribution to the field, quality of
writing, and innovation. The article will be formally acknowledged at the
ComSHER Division Business Meeting during the AEJMC Montreal conference on Thursday,
August 7.
ComSHER: Communicating Science,
Health, Environment and Risk is a Division of the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) at the University of Texas at Austin's Moody College of Journalism.
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