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1. Mid-America Press Institute & the Illinois Press 9 a.m: Welcome and Why we’re here. 1 p.m. Video Innovation Even With
Foundation present 9:05 a.m. From Gatekeepers to Info Your Tight Budget. Dave Morris,
Valets – The New Opportunity for video director, The
THE JOURNALISM Newspapers. Longtime journalist Bill Oklahoman/NewsOK.com (winner of
MANAGEMENT SUMMIT Densmore, Reynolds Journalism Institute. the APME Innovator of the Year).
Collectively, American newspapers The key to the future may be in
Innovation and probably still have more longtime paying-
account relationships with information-
finding ways to innovate with video on
your Web sites. But how can it be done
on a tight budget? Dave Morris, the face
managing hungry consumers than anyone -- with the
possible exception of the cable industry. and voice of NewsOK.com, will show you
ways to do it successfully.
change in the That's a huge opportunity. Densmore will
explain why -- and how. 2 p.m. Are Tweets Flying By You?
newsroom 9:45 a.m.: Densmore will lead you in a
discussion on those opportunities.
Social Networking for the Manager
in You. Steve Buttry, C3 Coach of
Gazette Communications.
If Steve Buttry is not the king of
You CAN lead the new media 10:15 a.m.: Break. journalistic social networking, he
landscape certainly is the royal prince. Learn from a
SATURDAY: longtime journalism trainer and news
10:30 p.m. The Sage and the Prophecy of manager how social networking changed
Feb. 13-14
Doom: Journalism Is FAR from his life and can change your entire
Millennium Hotel, St. Louis
Dead! John Foreman, publisher of The newsroom, too.
News-Gazette, Champaign, Ill.
The summit’s program: Psst … have you read his column? Those 2 p.m.: Break.
who are reporting about the demise of
Friday, Feb. 12: newspapers actually have a lot to gain by
8 p.m.: Reception for early arrivals, 3:15 p.m. My Newsroom’s Not the
fulfilling the prophecy. Learn why John Same Any More: Change
sponsored by MPI Board of Directors. Foreman thinks that newspapers will survive
Let’s discuss what’s happening at your Management 2010 and Beyond.
long past the predictions of doom and Mizell Stewart III, editor, Evansville
newspapers over drinks and snacks. survive successfully. (Ind.) Courier-Press
Saturday, Feb. 13: In newsroooms where younger
11:15 to noon: John and Meg Thilmony, journalists may know more about
social media director, The News- technology than you do, what can you do
THE SUMMIT’S FIRST MORNING: Gazette, will lead a discussion on what you’ve
BE INSPIRED! as a manager to balance their needs
found that will help in the counter-attack versus the needs of your longtime staff
against the prophecy of doom. members. Mizell will provide tips and
8 a.m.: Registration outside Field Room,
two floors below the hotel’s main lobby. then lead you on a discussion of the
Noon: Lunch. changing atmosphere of management.
Coffee, rolls and newspapers courtesy of
the St. Louis Post Dispatch. THE AFTERNOON SUMMIT: RAPID- 4:15 p.m. Ready, FIRE, Aim! WHAT?
FIRE LEARNING! Bill Densmore will lead on the
WHAT’S NEW:
path from moving ideas (ready) to

2. implementation (fire) and then watching MPI chair about how we can spread the journalists since the 1990s and formerly
the results and adjusting (aim). enthusiasm to our newsrooms and take them worked at the American Press Institute.
SURVIVE by taking what you’ve learned to the next level! (And maintain standards,
today, experimenting rapidly, firing and too!) Mizell Stewart III is editor of the
then analyzing your results. Evansville Courier & Press and
Noon: Take the rest of Sunday off on us. courierpress.com. He also hosts two
5 p.m. End of summit’s first day. _________________________
public affairs programs on WNIN-TV in
SUMMIT FINALE: YOUR TURN! The Faculty: Evansville, “Newsmakers” and
“Lawmakers.” Mizell has been an editor,
8 a.m.: Coffee, rolls and newspapers YOU: Your bio here. managing editor, local news assigning
courtesy of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. editor and award-winning reporter at
Bill Densmore is a consultant to the several newspapers. He helped lead the
SUNDAY: Reynolds Journalism Institute, the director team at The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss.
9 a.m. Innovations That Will Propel of The Media Giraffe Project at the University that won the 2006 Pulitzer Gold Medal
Us Into the New Decade. of Massachusetts and a co-founder of two
for Public Service for coverage of
Tracy Schmidt, editorial director Internet technology companies, including
Hurricane Katrina. Mizell is a board
of the Chicago Tribune's ChicagoNow, CircLabs Inc., a spinout of his Information
will lead a student panel on innovations Valet Project at RJI-Mizzou, in which Mizzou member of the American Society of News
that we as managers should be thinking has a significant interest. His earlier career Editors, the Mid-America Press Institute,
about in the future to appeal to a included stints with The Associated Press in the Evansville African American
younger generation of readers. You will Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Museum, WNIN public broadcasting and
be asked to become an active part of the Springfield, Ill., publishing weeklies in rural the Board of Visitors at the University of
discussion. Massachusetts, and advertising director for a Evansville.
small daily. He is also a principal of the
10 a.m. Let’s Innovate! Featuring Journalism That Matters collaborative. Margaret Holt, standards editor for
you. the Chicago Tribune, manages the
Workshop chairs Joe Hight, John Foreman is the editor, publisher and Tribune's accuracy program, which is a
Steve Buttry and Mizell Stewart III will president of The News-Gazette in leader in the news industry. She often
lead a spirited discussion with you on Champaign, Ill. represents the Tribune at training
innovations that you think might benefit sessions, community groups and
all of our futures. David Morris is video director of industry programs on the topic of
NewsOK.com. The Oklahoman/NewsOK.com accuracy, credibility and ethics. Also
11 a.m. Now WHAT? Even the Boss won the APME Innovator of the Year award chair of the board of directors of Mid-
Must Have Standards in the in 2009 for its total approach to video. America Press Institute, she works with
Multimedia Age. Margaret Holt, that board’s 27 editor-directors on
standards editor, Chicago Tribune. Steve Buttry is the C3 Innovation Coach at developing hands-on programming for
OK, you’re pumped! You’re Gazette Communications in Cedar Rapids, MPI.
ready to fire ideas to your newsroom! Iowa, but has a long career as a journalist at
You know you can lead your newsroom newspapers such as the Des Moines Register, Meg Thilmony is the social media
into a revolution that will change the Kansas City Star, Omaha World-Herald and director of The News-Gazette.
future of journalism. Let’s talk with our other newspapers. He has also trained

3. ________________________
Registration form for SEMINAR REGISTRATION: Mid-America Press Institute
presents
Innovation and Call it in: 217-581-2812
Email the information: jmryan@eiu.edu
THE NEWSROOM
managing change Mail the form:
John M. Ryan MANAGEMENT SUMMIT
in the newsroom Executive Director
Student Publications
an MPI Seminar
Innovation and
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Ave.
Feb. 13-14, 2010 Charleston, IL 61920
at the Millennium Hotel, St. Louis __________________________
managing
REGISTRATION FEE:
change in the
MPI Events Coming in 2010
MPI members — $50/$40
(1st/additional) March 26-27
Non-MPI members: $75/$65 Nimble leaders/Evolving Journalist,
an APME NewsTrain seminar newsroom
Newspaper The Daily Herald, Arlington Heights
Seminar will concentrate on management of the Feb. 13-14, 2010
_________________________________ evolving journalist and newsroom.
at the Millennium Hotel
Participants June 28-29 in St. Louis
Critical sports coverage
_________________________________ (w/Cardinals v. Diamondbacks game)
Millennium Hotel, St. Louis MPI has created
Workshop will center on new ideas for coverage this low-cost, two-day summit to help
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that will draw in more readers. you become the leader of the multimedia
_________________________________ age – or at least manage it in your
Sept. 25-26
Covering the 2010 census newsroom.
Address Millennium Hotel, St. Louis
This seminar will center on how to cover the
_________________________________ census, crunch the data and find the local stories. Other sponsors:
Scripps Howard Foundation
City ____________________________ October/November (tentative program) The Oklahoman/NewsOK.com
Newsroom management issues, an APME
State ________ Zip________________ NewsTrain seminar
Location TBA, Nashville, Tenn.
E-mail(s)________________________ Leadership and multimedia development.
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Phone __________________________