Friday, Sept. 12

• Registration (8 a.m.-5 p.m., Neff Hall Student Lounge, First Floor)
• Tours (Free and Open to the Public)
• Exhibits and Related Activities (The Following Are Free and Open to the Public)
  • 1908-2008: 100 Years of Election Cartoons
  • Alley Oop: 75 Years of the Comic World of V.T. Hamlin
  • The Front Page
  • Early Issues of Historical Newspapers: Missouri Gazette and University Missourian
  • Front Pages, A Decade Apart
  • Missouri Through Lens and Palette (Presenting Images from Missouri Photo Workshop Archive)
  • The Missourian's First Issue
  • Newsy.com: A Digital Newsroom
  • Pictures of the Year International Showcase
  • Reflections on The Journalist's Creed
  • The World's Journalism School Historical Exhibit
• Missouri Journalism Authors Display

9 a.m. to Noon

Technology Summit (Multiple Locations) The Technology Summit is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. Leading technology experts and industry pioneers will preside over interactive presentations divided into three tracks: Digital Storytelling, Disruptive Technologies and Web 3.0 Economics. Guests will have the chance to see new technologies at work and visit with those who are shaping tomorrow's media. Ambient Content Creator to Display Innovative Product Offering New Ways to Reach Customers Join Marc Kempter, BJ '86, of CORE in St. Louis for a sneak preview of Ambient Content, a new form of media that offers a personal expression of design, taste and style on screens in your home and in hotels, bars and restaurants. The session, "Ambient Content: Soothing The Savage Beast of the Digital Masses," will be held during the Sept. 12 Technology Summit held as part of the School's centennial/dedication celebration. [More] Award-Winning Multimedia Specialist to Be Featured at Tech Summit Brian Storm, the president of MediaStorm, a multimedia production studio in New York City, will present a session at the Sept. 12 Technology Summit during the centennial/dedication celebration. MediaStorm's principal aim is to usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling by publishing social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism, interactivity, animation, audio and video. The Tech Summit is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Cable Television and New Media Expert to Present New Architecture for News Daylife, a new architecture for news, provides publishers a scalable solution to automatically generate content on any subject, according to founder Tom Tercek. Join Tercek to learn more about the product, which gathers, analyzes and organizes the world's news from thousands of mainstream services and blogs, during the Sept. 12 Technology Summit. The event is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism, held during the School's centennial/dedication celebration. [More] CincyMOMS.com Offers Inventive Ways to Connect with Community With about 158,000 unique visitors a month, cincyMOMS.com is the busiest of more than 60 "mom" sites owned by Gannett Co., whose strategy is to build social networks around motherhood in specific locales. At the Sept. 12 Technology Summit, Managing Editor Karen Gutiérrez will explain how the site - technically part of the Cincinnati Enquirer - became its own community. The Summit, part of the School's centennial/dedication celebration, is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] The Coca-Cola Company to Present Innovative Social Media Practices On Sept. 12, Adam Brown of The Coca-Cola Company will present some of the innovative ideas that the world's largest brand is doing in the social media space, and how those ideas demonstrate the intersecting disciplines of public relations and marketing. The session is part of the centennial/dedication Technology Summit, an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Community Knowledgebase Offers Reporters and Editors a Rich Archival Resource Lewis A. Friedland of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will present his next-generation software product, Community Knowledgebase, at the Sept. 12 Technology Summit. Community Knowledgebase uses the semantic Web to generate local community networks by "reading" a newspaper's own archives and finding deep links between people, places and events. The Tech Summit is part of the School's Sept. 10-12 centennial/dedication celebration. [More] Customer Engagement Innovator to Present "Connective Digital Healthcare" Can building a better healthcare operating system make us healthier? This session, part of the Sept. 12 Technology Summit, promises to show that it can with a presentation by Scott Danielson, founder of ANNA, the code-name for a technology and healthcare start-up. Participants will examine how the forces of technology, media, medical science and social demographics can come together as Health 2.0. The Tech Summit, part of the centennial/dedication celebration, is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Digital Agency Executive to Present Survival Guide for Digital Marketers Jon Cook, BJ '93, president of digital interactive agency VML, will present a Technology Summit session Sept. 12 designed to provide a global perspective for how top brands are taking back digital ground to rise above the Web clutter. Cook will present new techniques for inhabiting social networks and applications, consumer generated media, gaming, mobile marketing and portable content such as gadgets, widgets, audio and video. The Tech Summit, part of the School's centennial/dedication celebration, is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Digital Consultancy to Illustrate Transformational Capacities of Social Media Executives from Rocket Fuel, a digital media consultancy based in New York City, will use the Sept. 12 Technology Summit to show examples from two recent projects that illustrate how socially fueled experiences are transforming big media editorial and consumption. Rocket Fuel advises large media companies on overcoming issues related to the speed and disruption of the open Web via new approaches to digital strategy, research and content programming. The Tech Summit, part of the School's centennial/dedication celebration, is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Digital Newsbook Capabilities to be Explored by Technology Veteran Roger Fidler, program director for digital publishing at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, will present the capabilities of Digital Newsbooks during the Sept. 12 Technology Summit. These downloadable eBooks disseminate and archive enterprise/investigative journalism and provide a possible new source of revenue. The Tech Summit is a program of the School's Sept. 10-12 centennial/dedication celebration. [More] Discovery Network Technology to Help Deliver Timely Information, Brands to Consumers On Sept. 12, Aggregate Knowledge, provider of the Pique Discovery Network, will showcase its ability to help publishers and advertisers have their content and brand assets discovered by the right people at the right time rather than forcing people to search for it. The Pique Discovery Network is the Internet's first discovery network that emulates the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. The session is part of the centennial/dedication Technology Summit, an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Electronic Publishing Executive to Demonstrate New B-to-B Digital Magazine Platform Coverleaf.com, an electronic publication that brings an old-fashioned "newsstand" experience to life in digital form, will be presented by Cimarron Buser of Texterity, Inc., at the Sept. 12 Technology Summit. The system offers consumer and business-to-business magazine digital editions with full search across every issue of each magazine, viewing of individual pages and clipping and saving, as well as social networking and sharing features. The Tech Summit, part of the School's centennial/dedication celebration, is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Emmy Award-Winning Current TV Connects Young Adults with World Events Current TV, the Emmy Award-winning open-source news and information network for young adults founded by Al Gore, can be seen in more than 58 million households across the globe. Join Current TV's Amy Grill Sept. 12 as she shares the network’s unique storytelling approach, which includes viewer-created content (VC2) for news and advertising. Some of the 60 Missouri Journalism students who have been vlogging from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for Current will join the session, which is part of the centennial/dedication Technology Summit. [More] Entrepreneurs to Present Next-Generation Application for Discovering and Organizing Content How can media companies and their advertisers optimize their audiences' touch points? Bewiki, a next generation Internet application, approaches this challenge by organizing information around the individual reader or viewer. On Sept. 12, attendees of the Technology Summit will see how Bewiki retrieves information and learns along with the user. The Tech Summit, part of the Sept. 10-12 centennial/dedication celebration, is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Can Software Surface Media Bias? Disruptive technologies leader Todd Herman, the founder and chief creative officer of SpinSpotter, will discuss how software can surface the relative bias and inaccuracy of any news story at the Sept. 12 Technology Summit. You may feel uncomfortable with the notion but technologies like these may be important to the future of journalism. The Tech Summit, part of the centennial/dedication celebration, is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] iPhone Student Competition to be Unveiled In the fall of 2008, interdisciplinary teams at MU, including journalism students, will compete to create, test and market new iPhone applications specifically aimed at improving mobile news service and advertising delivery. Learn more about the program at "Designing the Next Generation of Mobile News," a session of the Sept. 12 Technology Summit held during the School's centennial/dedication celebration. [More] Lawrence Journal-World's Marketplace Helps Rebuild Local Advertising Base Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World General Manager Al Bonner will present the LJW's Marketplace project on Sept. 12 at the Technology Summit, a program of the School's centennial/dedication celebration. Local companies can manage and personalize their listings with photographs, videos, coupons and notices about upcoming special events using these innovative Marketplace sites, which are a means to regain control of an eroding local advertising base. [More] LiveAdMaker Founder to Demonstrate Solutions in Age of Local Advertising LiveAdMaker, an online application that simplifies creating ad campaigns in multiple media channels, has helped dozens of leading brands such as Google, Microsoft and The New York Times leverage the $320 billion local advertising market. Find out more Sept. 12 at "Branding in an Age of Local Advertising," a session of the daylong Technology Summit held during the School's centennial/dedication celebration. [More] LikeMe.net Connects Like-Minded People on the Web in Travel and Entertainment At the Sept. 12 Technology Summit, Jeff Giarraputo, chief executive officer of LikeMe.net, will demonstrate content discovery between like-minded individuals within a large membership base in the travel and entertainment sectors. LikeMe goes above and beyond current consumer-generated reviews of products, restaurants and hotels and entertainment by using innovative collaborative filtering. The Tech Summit is part of the School's centennial/dedication celebration. [More] Media Technology Leader to Present Multi-Perspective News Site Join Jim Spencer, MA '91, on Sept. 12 to learn how Newsy.com monitors, synthesizes and presents the world's news coverage by using an innovative combination of advanced technologies and human editorial perspective. "Newsy.com: Multi-Perspective Online Video News Service" is a session of the Technology Summit, an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. It will be held during the School's centennial/dedication celebration Sept. 10-12. [More] New Reynolds Fellow to Present a Look Back on Forward Thinking A Sept. 12 Technology Summit session will feature Matt Thompson, co-creator of the viral Flash video EPIC 2014 and the 2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellow. EPIC 2014, a vision of the last decade in media history -- set ten years in the future, found a massive viral audience online and garnered mentions in The New York Times, USA Today, the Atlantic Monthly, the Guardian and other worldwide news sources. Thompson will take a look back at those media technology predictions and preview his research as a Fellow of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. The Technology Summit, held during the School's centennial/dedication celebration, is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] New Reynolds Fellow to Present Web-Centric Journalism Network Jane Stevens, a 2008-2009 Fellow of the Reynolds Journalism Institute, will present a session Sept. 12 to introduce open-source news templates that have the potential to help solve health and science problems in communities. She is one of several inaugural Fellows who will present research at the Sept. 12 Technology Summit, part of the School's centennial/dedication celebration. [More] NewspaperDirect Executive to Propose New Paradigm for Newspaper and Magazine Industries NewspaperDirect, a leader in multi-channel newspaper and magazine content distribution and monetization, is offering a new paradigm and business model for the industry. Join Igor Smirnoff during the Sept. 12 Technology Summit for an introduction to NewspaperDirect, which publishers of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have called "the best-kept secret of the industry." The Tech Summit is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Publicis Groupe's Denuo Practice Executive to Talk New Media Tim Hanlon, executive vice president/ventures for Denuo, the futures consulting practice of advertising agency holding company Publicis Groupe, S.A., will bring his vision to the Sept. 12 Technology Summit at the School's centennial/dedication celebration. Hanlon will introduce attendees to promising new media firms that not only have potential to help journalism survive, but also flourish in the years ahead. The Tech Summit is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More] Private Label Video Channels Can Offer 100 Percent Revenue At the Sept. 12 Technology Summit, digital agency CEO Steve Hanson of Hanson Inc. will demonstrate a solution for media and advertisers to take part of the Web video revolution with a zero set-up cost, operating costs at under $100 a month and 100 percent of the revenue going to the media company. He will showcase the video channel of BackstageGallery.com, a Web business that is partnering with local and national media properties and advertisers for compelling video mini-documentary channels. The Technology Summit is a highlight of the School's centennial/dedication celebration. [More] RJI Fellow to Outline Shared-User Commercial Network It could be a dream-come-true for publishers, producers and artists: a shared-user commercial network of news and information. Join Bill Densmore, a 2008-2009 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, as he details his plans to define, document and rally public support for this shared-user network in "The Information Valet: Where News and Information Are Valued—and Paid For," a session of the Sept. 12 Technology Summit. [More] Scripps Networks Interactive Executive to Discuss "Disruptive Innovation" in Real Estate On Sept. 12, join Channing Dawson, senior adviser to Scripps Networks Interactive to learn how HGTV capitalized on the growth of social networks and Web applications in the real estate market. A new service called Front Door serves both the consumer and the broker/agent, all while garnering new audiences and revenue. The session is part of the Technology Summit, an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. [More]

1-2:30 p.m.

Business, Media and Academic Leaders to Discuss Communication for a Digital Globe Join leaders from academia, journalism and business for the Sept. 12 "President's Roundtable," a seminal discussion about how evolving communication tools, technologies and techniques are changing the business world - and how universities can supply the physical and intellectual capital needed to stay on top of communication in a digital globe. The session, hosted by University of Missouri System President Gary Forsee and moderated by CBS anchor Russ Mitchell, BJ '82, is part of the Missouri School of Journalism's Sept. 10-12 centennial/dedication programming. [More]

6 p.m.

Taste of Missouri to Showcase State Pride, Wrap Up Celebration On Friday, Sept. 12, guests can celebrate Missouri's heritage with the Taste of Missouri Mixer, a casual event featuring a hearty menu of local and regional products, from artisanal cheeses and local wines to farm-raised meats and seasonal produce. The evening will be an inspiring showcase of Missouri's finest products, followed by the celebration’s closing ceremonies. [More]

8 p.m.

Famed Russian Poet to Perform Poem for Centennial/Dedication Sept. 12 On Sept. 12, one of the best-known and most widely published poets in the world, Yevgeny Yevtushenko will perform "The Lead Honorarium," a commissioned poem he wrote in honor of the centennial of the Missouri School of Journalism and the dedication of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. The performance is one of several closing ceremony events for the Sept. 10-12 celebration. [More]