Speakers and Presentations

Watch a live broadcast of KBIA’s "Intersection" program, tackling the topic of "The Future of Public Media."

With Juan Williams-gate, the controversial resignation of NPR’s president, and legislators threatening to pull funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the heat is on for public media. The question is: Can public media survive and thrive? We will tackle the question head on, with help from our panelists and input from the live audience.

Monday: Center for the Digital Globe Conference

Tuesday: Digital Publishing Alliance Meeting/Symposium

Wednesday & Thursday: Opportunites and early lessons --  from the Reynolds Fellows

Thursday & Friday: Fellows Research and Reunion

In honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day Global Journalist invited the public to a live taping of its March 10 program.

The event, which was co-sponsored by Workforce of Women, took place in the Fred W. Smith Forum at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. A moderated conversation among in-studio panelists and call-in guests regarding the status of female journalists was be broadcasted live on KBIA, and a reception followed the event.

Join the most innovative magazine pros in the U.S. as they reveal how they create content for the iPad.

iPads and the clones that are hitting the market are a game changer for magazines - and the entire publishing industry. In the midst of this digital upheaval, iPads: The Creative Process In Process will bring together editors, designers, tech and visual thinkers for a day-long conference that will explore how to adapt and generate original content for this ground-breaking device.

If a newspaper goes out of business, what happens to its archives?
If a newspaper becomes available only online, what happens to yesterday's (or last year's) news?
Why should we care?

How are tablets changing the game for publishers?

A cadre of advertising industry leaders visited RJI on October 14 to interact with professors and students at the Missouri School of Journalism and to discuss the importance of advertising ethics at a forum sponsored by AOL.

An interactive forum bringing together folks from the frontlines of the food and fuel industries in America, to discuss how the issues are portrayed by the media and others. Look for discussions on: food, biofuels, sustainability, farming today, immigration, labor- how all of these topics affect the changing landscape of agribusiness, and how they get covered in the media and elsewhere.