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Upcoming Symposium to Discuss "New Media, Enduring Values"

Four Projects Studying Related Journalism Principles to Be Announced

Pam Johnson Institute Executive Director Bill Kovach Journalism Studies Faculty Dean Mills Convergence Journalism Dean Geneva Overholser Journalism Studies Faculty Tom Rosenstiel Journalism Studies Faculty Esther Thorson Strategic Communication Acting Dean

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Columbia, Mo. (Sept. 26, 2006) -- The Missouri School of Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists will commemorate their alliance at an upcoming symposium at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The theme of the event - the 2006 Curtis B. Hurley Symposium - will be "New Media, Enduring Values." It will be held from 9-11 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 17, with a continental breakfast served at 8:30 a.m.

The new partners - the world's first journalism school and a coalition of more than 9,000 journalists worldwide - will announce projects that exhibit the kind of work their partnership makes possible. All are designed to point toward promising ways in which journalism's most important values can be translated, and made even more effective, in the digital world.

"All these projects are aimed at answering the difficult question on so many minds today: How do we ensure that those principles that make journalism indispensable will survive and even thrive in the digital world?" said Geneva Overholser, who holds the Hurley chair at the School.

Three of the four projects bring alive principles drawn from the book, Elements of Journalism, by CCJ's Bill Kovach, the founding director and chairman, and Tom Rosenstiel, vice chairman.

Findings from the four studies will be presented at a future symposium.

Others who will participate in the symposium discussion include:

The CCJ-Missouri Journalism alliance was announced in October 2005 when the Knight Foundation awarded a $2.28 million grant to the School and CCJ. The funds will allow CCJ to update and expand its training activities using the School's nationally recognized research capabilities. The Reynolds Journalism Institute is an emerging center at the School that will be a nucleus of collaborative innovation, research and demonstration of new technologies and processes that improve journalism. The Institute was made possible by a $31 million gift from the Las Vegas-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, the largest private donation ever to the University of Missouri.

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