Citizens of Moberly, Mo., are using an online poll to both reward and help properties in the area.
President Obama declared the H1N1 flu pandemic a national emergency, yet availability of H1N1 vaccine remains locally limited to high-risk priority groups.
Project aims to archive the art and music of the Central Missouri River Region for both present and future audiences.
Safer business practices help keep Missouri banks in the black.
Across the country, book sellers and libraries are trying to sort out how to make their inventories compatible with new, controversial regulations on the amount of lead allowable in products.
Chuck DeCourley, an experienced emu egg-carver from Hallsville, Mo., has carved intricate scenes, ranging from roses to the John Deere logo, on more than 30 emu eggs.
Without the proper propagation methods, the Missouri Department of Conservation reports the endangered Hellbender will be gone by 2020.
If Columbia earned the highly competitive bid for Google Fiber, it would put the city on the map as a technology hub, attracting tech savvy minds to join in on the Internet experiment.
Around-the-clock tweet, blog and video coverage from from the MU Graduate Theatre Organization’s play writing festival.
You’ve heard of the gift that keeps on giving. MU’s College of Engineering may have received the gift that keeps on taking.
The U.S. Attorney General recently announced new federal guidelines deeming it an unnecessary use of time and money to federally prosecute medical marijuana users who abide by state laws.
The state of Missouri, home to an estimated six million people, lies atop the New Madrid earthquake zone.
A $50,000 grant from the EPA will extend the pesticide reduction efforts of MU Extension by educating Amish and Mennonite farmers in central and northern Missouri.
State lawmakers are working to pass a bill that could make children across the state feel like they’re on “Dancing With the Stars.”
As the auto industry continues to erode, three of Columbia’s four auto parts manufacturers have been forced to cut costs.
From 1992 – 2003, the number of Missourians diagnosed with autism increased 693 percent. It is possible that as many as one in 100 children are born with some form of Autism.
In 2007, Columbia had just one Myanmar refugee. That number rose to 62 in 2008. Now, there are 218.
First zebra mussels threatened the Lake of the Ozarks and now Chinese mystery snails? Click the pictures to go to the full report.
Car breathalyzers, known as Ignition Interlock Devices, are now required in all registered vehicles for second time DUI offenders. The Ignition Interlock Devices are expected to reduce drunk driving for repeated offenders.
When Columbia’s City Council approved a plan to implement back-in angle parking, it put into place a parking setup that GetAboutColumbia hoped would make the city safer for bicyclists.
Three businesses in Columbia are serving alcohol, but they’re not in the restaurant, bar or convenience store categories.
Tourists traveling along Route 66 seldom had reason to stop in Cuba, Missouri until 2007, when a project created 12 new murals along the way. Click on the picture for the full report.
Columbia has increased police patrols downtown and proposed surveillance cameras, while businesses and residential areas outside The District have seen a 37 percent increase in aggravated assaults since 2008.
by Matthew Busch and Eva Dou
Audio: When it comes to the Missouri River, there’s not always enough
by Garrett Bergquist & Eva Dou
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Social security numbers in online county records could raise identity theft risks
by Eva Dou, Chris Spurlock and Joey Soto
Audio: Brine Shrimp key element in MU Professor’s Biofuel Research
Section A – Bea Wallace
Section B – Rick Agran
Section C – Stepnanie Veto
Section E – Stepnanie Veto
Section D – Rick Agran
Section F – Bea Wallace
Television News-Style Video Assignment
You will learn about writing for the ear and have learned about referencing video. Now it’s time to produce your first video in a television news-style package.
For this assignment your finished video will be between 1:30-2:00, have a script you have written and voiced, interviews with at least two people, natural sound and b-roll. You do may not need to appear on camera for this assignment, you can just add your voice to the video if that’s all your instructor requires.
An important part of this video is your …
Short Video Assignment
For the video assignment, take what you learned in your three pictures, audio assignment and audio slide show and apply those lessons to creating a short video that uses a 5-shot sequence and a 15-second interview.
In the three pictures you learned to set the scene, take a portrait (the portrait becomes the interview in your video) and a detail, and in the audio assignment you learned to record an interview and gather ambient sound. The audio slideshow taught you to use audio and to sync your audio with …
