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- Time: 9:00-10:15 a.m.
- Date: Thursday, Sept. 11
- Place: 278 Gannett Hall
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Two opportunities based on "The Front Page," the award-winning Broadway comedic play about journalists, will challenge participants to think about the ethical issues reporters face.
In this morning session, cast members of Columbia's Maplewood Barn Theatre will perform scenes from "The Front Page" to highlight the ethical issues that speed, the scoop and Web-first content raise for journalists. Audience members will be encouraged to participate in the discussion.
Those attending the celebration can enjoy a full afternoon performance of the play at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, the city's cultural arts venue on Ninth Street. A free ticket to this event, which begins at 2 p.m. on Thursday, is included for all registered guests.
Discussion Leaders
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Jay Black
Professor Emeritus
University of South Florida
Jay Black, PhD '74, is a professor emeritus at the University of South Florida, where he was the first recipient of the Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy, a position he held until 2003. Black also chaired the university's Program for Ethics in Education and Community. In 1985, he co-founded the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, the country's leading academic journal in that discipline. Black is the author or co-author of ten books on media and society, media issues, and media ethics, including the books Doing Ethics in Journalism and Introduction to Media Communication. He has presented some 500 academic and public papers, seminars, and workshops and has been an expert witness in two-dozen media ethics cases. In 1997, he received the Freedom Forum's national journalism professor of the year award.
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Lee Wilkins
Professor
Missouri School of Journalism
Lee Wilkins is a professor of radio-television journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism and is a co-author of one of the country's best-selling college ethics texts, Media Ethics: Issues and Cases. Wilkins specializes in research on media ethics, media coverage of the environment and risk communication. She is the editor of The Journal of Mass Media Ethics, the country's leading academic journal in that discipline. Named a Page Legacy Scholar from the Arthur W. Page Center in 2005, Wilkins received a $10,000 grant to support the study, The Moral Media: How Public Relations Professionals Reason about Ethics. Her many honors include a Mizzou Alumni Association Faculty-Alumni Award, the William T. Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence and the O.O. McIntyre Distinguished Professorship. Wilkins has taught ethics as a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and she also holds a joint appointment with the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs at MU.
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The Maplewood Barn Community Theatre
Columbia, Mo.
The cast of The Front Page, a production of the historic Maplewood Barn Community Theatre, will be performing scenes from the show during this media ethics session. Those attending the celebration can enjoy a full Sept. 11 afternoon performance of the play at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, the city's cultural arts venue on Ninth Street. A free ticket to this event, which begins at 2 p.m., is included for all registered guests. MBCT is an established nonprofit outdoor theatre founded in 1973. The Barn's mission is to produce the highest quality outdoor theatre to the Mid-Missouri area, including a diverse range of plays from musicals to Shakespearean drama and more. [More]
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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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