Then and Now: Learning and Doing Journalism as an African American in Mid-Missouri [Print This Page]
- Time: 9:00-10:15 a.m.
- Date: Thursday, Sept. 11
- Place: 200-A Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Missouri Journalism students gain real-world experience working as reporters in the mid-Missouri area. Beyond the challenges all have faced in learning how to cover stories, some African-American students also have encountered discrimination and faced negative situations while on the job. In this session, alumni will reflect on their college days and share some of their triumphs and frustrations as they interacted with citizens in the relatively diverse cities of Columbia and Jefferson City as well as those in the more homogeneous rural communities. The session will include voices from respected African-American alumni from the past, including Gerald Boyd, BJ '73 (1950-2006).
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Moderator: Holly Edgell
Assistant Professor
Missouri School of Journalism
Holly Edgell is an assistant professor of journalism and serves as executive producer in the newsroom at KOMU-TV, a teaching lab for the School's radio-television and convergence journalism majors. She previously worked as a newscast and special projects producer in Youngstown, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit. She joined the Missouri faculty in 2006, after more than four years as an assistant professor of journalism at Florida A&M University. Edgell holds a master's degree in journalism from Kent State University and a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University. She is an active member of National Association of Black Journalists, Society of Professional Journalists and Radio-Television News Directors Association.
Discussion Leaders:
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Gail F. Baker
Dean of the College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Gail F. Baker, PhD '91, APR, is dean of the College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, a merging of the university's School of Communication with its College of Fine Arts. Baker, a Fellow of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), began her career as a reporter and editor for the Chicago Daily Defender in the 1970s. She later worked as a public relations professional for IBM before being recruited to teach at the Missouri School of Journalism. During her tenure from 1983-1995, Baker served as chair of the advertising department as well as director of the School's Knight Foundation Office of Minority Recruiting and Retention. In 1995, she joined the University of Florida, where she took on various roles during her 11 years there, including vice president for public relations, director of communications and chair of the public relations department in the College of Journalism and Communications. Baker’s work as an educator has been honored with the William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Missouri and a Top Three Faculty Paper citation from PRSA for her research on the impact of race on crisis communication management, among other awards. She has authored two books, Advertising and Marketing to the New Majority and Exploding Stereotypes: Milestones in Black Newspaper Research. Recently, she collaborated on the Emmy Award-winning documentary Paper Trail: 100 Years of the Chicago Defender. In addition to her doctorate from Missouri, Baker earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1976 and went on to complete a Master of Science in marketing communications from Roosevelt University in 1980.
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Kia Breaux
Acting Bureau Chief for Missouri and Kansas
The Associated Press
Kia Breaux, BJ '96, is the acting bureau chief for The Associated Press in Missouri and Kansas. As bureau chief, Breaux oversees news and business operations in the two states. Her responsibilities include the management and training of a staff of 32 in seven offices across the territory. She joined AP in 1997 as a reporter in the Kansas City bureau. She's also served as a correspondent in the AP's Roanoke, Va., office and as the news editor for Nebraska. Breaux also holds a Master of Science in management and human resources management from Baker University. She is president of the Kansas City Association of Black Journalists and serves as a member of both the Communications Committee of the Mizzou Alumni Association and of the National Association of Black Journalists.
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Corrice W. F. Collins
Station Operations Manager
WBBM-TV, Chicago
Corrice W. F. Collins, BJ '76, has more than 30 years of broadcast experience. From 1997-2005, he served as the stations operations manager for WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he supervised up to 300 production and operations staff and oversaw an annual budget of more than $5 million. From 1987-1997 Collins served as the assistant news director and assignments editor of WLBT-TV3 in Jackson, Miss. From 1977-1983 he was an anchor and reporter at KMBC-TV9 in Kansas City, Mo. Earlier in Collins' career, he worked at KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kan., KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo., and WLBT-TV3 in Jackson, Miss.
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Art Holliday
Co-Anchor and Executive Producer
KSDK-TV, St. Louis
Art Holliday, BJ '76, is co-anchor and executive producer of the "Today in St. Louis" morning show and "NewsChannel5 at Noon" at KSDK-TV in St. Louis. With a distinguished career spanning 28 years, Holliday has received numerous recognitions for his professional achievements. These include the prestigious Faculty-Alumni Award from the University of Missouri in 2003 and the St. Louis Chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Annual Media Award in 2002. Holliday was inducted into the Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Mark E. Russell
Managing Editor
Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel
Mark E. Russell, BJ '84, is the managing editor of the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel. Russell leads a newsroom of 200 journalists covering national, foreign, metro, sports and business news for the central Florida newspaper, in addition to features, special projects and the production of El Sentinel, the company's weekly Spanish-language newspaper. Previously, he worked in management and reporting positions at The Cleveland Plain Dealer, the largest newspaper in Ohio, and The Wall Street Journal. Russell is president of the Missourian Publishing Association Board of Directors.
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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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