Mizzou journalism school honors Russ Mitchell
CBS News reporter/anchor Russ Mitchell will pick up the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in Columbia on Friday. The award, which dates to 1930, is billed as one of journalism’s most prestigious. Mitchell got his bachelor’s in journalism from Mizzou in 1982. He actually received the medal in 2007 but couldn’t make it to campus at the time.
This also from CBS News:
Mitchell will present a master class, “The New Real World of TV News.” It will be streamed live from 11 to 11:50 a.m. (Friday) as he speaks to students in the Fred W. Smith Forum at the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI). His talk also will be featured on the plasma screens inside RJI.
After working at Channels 2 and 4 in St. Louis, Mitchell joined CBS in 1992. He graduated from Webster Groves High School in 1978.
Russ does great work. Miss him on the Saturday early morn. show, but am glad he got promoted. Keep it up! You do St. Louis and Mizzou proud, Russ.
I knew of Russ Mitchell as a local reporter for Channel 4 news.He’s always a real professinal who did the best to uphold the intergaty of his trade.(Please take note,you clowns at Fox-2 news who claimed to be real newspeople)