Scott Swafford
2013-2014 Reynolds Fellow
University fellow
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Associate Professor
Missouri School of Journalism
Senior City Editor
Columbia Missourian
Columbia, Missouri
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About Scott Swafford
Scott Swafford is an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and senior city editor at the Columbia Missourian newspaper. He worked as a reporter and editor at Missouri newspapers for 19 years, including 13 years at the Columbia Daily Tribune, before coming to the Missouri School of Journalism as a professor in 2003.
He received a master’s degree in journalism in 2012 from the Missouri School of Journalism. He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology at Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University), graduating in 1984.
When Swafford is not mentoring students in the classroom or editing articles in the newsroom, he enjoys spending time with his family, whitewater canoeing and racing, deer hunting, as well as playing slow-pitch softball.
He lives in Columbia with his wife, Lisa Swafford. The couple have two children Quentin and Jacob.
Scott Swafford is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and senior city editor at the Columbia Missourian newspaper. He was a 2013-2014 RJI Fellow.
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How small newspapers can cover local elections well
October 8, 2014Futures Lab Update
Futures Lab update #19: Reporting apps, GitHub, and election coverage
July 22, 2013
Strengthening newsrooms to reconnect citizen and government
Scott Swafford's project was designed to instill the importance of local election news coverage through a workshop curriculum offered to small town newsrooms in Missouri. A two-day workshop at the Reynolds Journalism Institute provided journalists with advice, tools and resources needed to more adequately cover local elections.
The ultimate goal of the workshops and Swafford's research was to have newsroom leaders implement suggestions for better and more thorough election coverage that are designed to help voters make informed decisions. Swafford also wanted to learn whether better election reporting helps build social capital in small communities and whether it is profitable for newspapers.
Down-home Democracy
RJI survey reveals residents’ attitudes toward municipal elections, newspapers’ coverage of them
February 6, 2014Improving election coverage isn’t such a radical idea
December 18, 2013
Donald W. Reynolds