Citizens' Forum
We are living through an information revolution as profound as the advent of the printing press. A panel of citizens and journalists discuss how this is affecting the public's ability to hold government accountable and what the press must do to be relevant and trustworthy.
The program at the Missouri History Museum is followed by a series of interviews in which veteran St. Louis broadcaster Donn Johnson asks panelists and journalism students for reactions to the lively discussion.
Following the forum veteran broadcaster Donn Johnson continued the discussion with one-on-one interviews with panelists and audience members.
Panelists:
Gilbert Bailón became editorial page editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in November 2007. Bailón started his journalism career as a reporter at the Dallas Morning News in 1986, and later held positions as assistant metro editor, day city editor, metro editor and assistant managing editor/metro. Bailón served as past president of American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) as well as the National Association of Hispanic journalists. He has also served on the boards of NAHJ and Unity Journalists of Color.
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Steve Ehlmann currently serves as County Executive in St. Charles County. Servers as County Executive in St. Charles County. Having served both in the Senate and house of Representatives, Ehlmann is known for his lawmaking and political background. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Missouri Historical Society and a former member of the St. Charles Rotary Club, the Boys and Girls Club of St. Charles County, Habitat for Humanity and several other organizations. More on Steve Ehlmann
Bill Freivogel is director of the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a professor at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. Previously Freivogel worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 34 years, serving as assistant Washington Bureau Chief and deputy editorial editor. He was won numerous national awards for reporting and editorial writing and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 2002.
Ray Hartmann, Deputy Web Editor, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Co-creator of Flash movie EPIC 2014
A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, Hartmann is an independent journalist and entrepreneur. He appears weekly as a panelist on the political talk show, “Donnybrook,” which is now in its 23rd season on KETC-TV Channel9. Currently he is the co-owner and CEO of St. Louis Magazine. Hartmann founded The Riverfront Times in 1977 at the age of 24, and under his leadership it became one of the 10 largest alternative newsweeklies in the nation. Hartmann served as president of the national Association of Alternative Newsweeklies among his 12 years on its board of directors.
Adam Hosp, Web developer and Internet entrepreneur, recently graduated from the University of Missouri earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology. As an undergraduate he and his team won the Reynolds journalism Institute Adobe AIR Student Composition and he is currently competing in the RJI iPhone Student Competition. Hosp is co-founder of Wallowr.com and the Adverse network.
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Donn Johnson, veteran broadcaster and St. Louis native, is the director of communications at the Missouri History Museum. Johnson’s award-winning broadcast career spans more than 30 years, including 22 years as a local television anchor/reporter with KTVI-TV and KMOV-TV and nearly ten years anchoring, hosting and reporting on local radio including KXLW, KADI, KWK, WIL and KTRS. He also has done a turn as a sports anchor at WIL and color commentator for professional basketball. Johnson left broadcasting in 2002 and that same year was named to his present position.
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