A Preview of the Angus and Betty McDougall Center for Photojournalism Studies [Print This Page]
- Time: 2:00-3:15 p.m.
- Date: Thursday, Sept. 11
- Place: 110 Lee Hills Hall
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The Angus and Betty McDougall Center for Photojournalism Studies, named for the renowned photography innovator and educator and his wife, will preserve collections of photographs by newspaper, magazine and documentary photographers. The images will be available for archival, research, exhibition and educational use. This session will officially recognize this important resource, and former students will share comments about the impact of McDougall on their lives and work.
Presenters: (All former students of Angus McDougall)
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Rhonda Prast
Senior Editor
StarTribune.com
Rhonda Prast, MA '81, is a senior editor with StarTribune.com in Minneapolis and was the producer for "13 Seconds in August," an interactive presentation on the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, which won a National Headliner Award for Journalistic Innovation and an EPpy award for Best Special Feature on a Web site. In her nine years in Minnesota, Prast has served in leadership roles in both the features and design departments of the Star Tribune. Previously, she was the art director for Pacific Northwest magazine at the Seattle Times, where she was on a team that shared the Angus McDougall editing award in 1999 in the Pictures of the Year International competition. Prast was a member of the Miami Herald staff that won the 1993 Pulitzer gold medal for public service and the Society for News Design gold award for Best of Show for coverage of Hurricane Andrew. A former photographer and picture editor, Prast has been a faculty member of the Missouri Photo Workshop three times.
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Rita Reed
Associate Professor
Missouri School of Journalism
Associate Professor Rita Reed, MA '84, joined the photojournalism faculty at the Missouri School of Journalism in the fall of 2001 after 17 years as a working photojournalist. She began her newspaper career as a staff photographer at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1984 and moved to the Star Tribune in Minneapolis in 1987 to work as a staff photographer and frequent fill-in editor on the assignment, production and feature picture-editing desks. As a photojournalist, Reed has worked in Eastern Europe, South America, the Caribbean and Asia. Her photographic work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year, the World Press Photo Foundation, the Society of Newspaper Designers, the Associated Press Managing Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists. Reed has been a frequent contest judge and speaker for state, regional, national and international photojournalism competitions, conventions and seminars, as well as serving on the faculties of the Missouri Photo Workshop and the Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshops. Reed was the 1993 recipient of the Nikon Sabbatical Grant for Documentary Photography for her project on gay and lesbian teenagers. The resulting images and interviews were published in the book Growing Up Gay, the Sorrows and Joys of Gay and Lesbian Adolescence (W.W. Norton, 1997). In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Reed directs the College Photographer of the Year Competition and has developed and taught photojournalism workshops and convergence classes internationally in Macedonia, China and Russia. Most recently she has led and assisted 20 student photographers and three master's degree candidates in the shooting, editing and publishing of the 2008 Arrow Rock book - a revisit of one of the towns in Angus McDougall's original River Town Book Series.
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Ray Wong
Professor
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro
Ray Wong, MA '74, teaches in the media design concentration at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. His creative and research interests include news design, typography, photojournalism, information graphics and design/media technology. In his 30-plus years as a journalist, he worked at major newspapers, including The Tennessean in Nashville, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Toronto Star in Canada and The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss.; he also designed The City Paper in Nashville. Wong served as the visual instructor for design and photography for the Freedom Forum's Diversity Institute in Nashville. He is active in professional organizations, including the Society for News Design and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Visual Communication division. Wong also has served in various editor capacities with the Asian American Journalist Association's Voices and the UNITY News projects. Wong has been honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Award for "North Mississippi Justice" and is a multiple award winner in several of the National Press Photographers Association's Pictures of the Year competitions.
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About the Futures Forum
Top journalists, advertisers and thought leaders will lead numerous interactive sessions during the Sept. 11 Futures Forum, a day of cutting-edge discussions about the next century of journalism. Ethics, convergence and politics are just a few of the many hot topics that will be explored in this diverse program dedicated to challenging industry thinking and visualizing possibilities for the future. Sessions will be 75 minutes long and held concurrently with others on the schedule. Full schedules will be available during on-site check in during the Sept. 10-12 celebration.
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