Knight Award
The Knight Award is given to a person, or people, who have provided outstanding service to scholastic or minority journalism and/or who have furthered student freedom of expression in Missouri.
Please consider nominating a deserving individual or group for this honor by completing this online nomination form by Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025.
The honoree and/or the nominator will be invited to prepare a 30-second acceptance video to run at the spring JDay on the MU campus.
Past honorees include:
- 1992 – Mark Goodman, Director, SPLC
- 1993 – Bill Hankins, Oak Park High School
- 1994 – Lorena Tinker
- 1995 – Lisa Scroggs and staff, Jefferson City High School
- 1996 – Rep. Joan Bray
- 1997 – Franklin McCallie, Kirkwood High School
- 1998 – Lucile Bluford, Kansas City Call
- 1999 – Jon David, Kandace Callwell, Matt Sevart and Rick Raven, Blue Springs School District
- 2000 – Anna Romero, Executive Director, MIPA
- 2002 – Missouri Press Association and Doug Crews, Executive Director
- 2005 – Yvette Walker, Kansas City Star
- 2008 – Stacey Woefel, KOMU-TV8
- 2012 – Matt Schott, Francis Howell Central High School
- 2013 – Brian Brooks, Missouri School of Journalism
- 2014 – R. Dean Mills, Missouri School of Journalism
- 2015 – Stephanie Green, Past President, MIPA
- 2016 – Anna Romero, Executive Director, MIPA
- 2017 – Christina Geabhart, Oak Park High School
- 2018 – Missouri State House Rep. Kevin Corlew
- 2019 – Paul Aubrey, North Kansas City High School
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- 2021 – —-
- 2022 – Michelle Turner, retired teacher of Blue Jay Journal TV, Washington High School
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- 2024 – —-