Dean Stone Selects
Each spring the School of Journalism celebrates its founder, Dean Arthur Stone, and its current Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ with an annual lecture and scholarship and awards banquet.
In 2024, Dean Stone events will span April 4-5.
On Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. in the UC Theater, join the J-School in welcoming Michael Duffy, the opinions editor at large of the Washington Post, who will deliver the annual Dean Stone Lecture.
On Friday, April 5, from 5-9 at the Holiday Inn Downtown, we will host the Dean Stone Awards Banquet to honor Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ and their outstanding work. For more information and to get tickets, contact the main office: 406-243-4001 or email - robyn.berg@mso.umt.edu
Thanks to generous endowments and donor contributions, the school awarded more than $325,000 in scholarships at last year's banquet.
In addition to the banquet, we feature a special public lecture in the week running up to the banquet.
Previous Dean Stone speakers have included Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times; former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw; Judy Woodruff of PBS Newshour; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eli Sanders;The New Yorker magazine writer Adam Entous; New York Times staff writer and National Magazine Award-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones; and Chris Jones, editor-in-chief of National Geographic magazine.