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Our IN THE NOW
St. Louis Press Club's online initiative, featuring conversations with St. Louis-area professional communicators, continues.
Looking Back. Imagining the Future.
Communications colleagues speak with St. Louis Press Club board member, Jessica Z. Brown Billhymer, on work and life during a pandemic, protests, economic stress and a community facing frank and varied discussions about racism.
In early 2020, it became clear to the St. Louis Press Club (STLPC) pivoting to a new way of connecting with community was a must, with the usual and varied local on-the-ground programming having to take on a new fa... READ MORE.
There are four takeaways from these conversations:
1. Media communicators are adept at pivoting to new solutions in the face of disruption.
2. Technology's role as a star and integral player, in our society and in the communications business, is dynamic and key to connecting all stakeholders, and is invaluable in facilitating collaborative team energy to meet deadlines and provide uninterrupted public service.
3. Media institutions and individuals seriously take safety of others as a primary concern during a pandemic and civil unrest.
4. Communicators reveal honest, inspirational feelings of wins, losses and amazement regarding their and colleagues' communications journey. And, we learn from these professionals what it takes to do their jobs in these times, and what it means to carry on, no matter what.
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St. Louis Press Club's Our IN THE NOW with Don Corrigan, Emeritus Editor, Webster-Kirkwood Times, Emeritus Journalism Professor, Webster University, recorded December, 30, 2020, running time 38:09. Regarding the pandemic and Webster-Kirkwood Times ceasing publication, "It's been a pretty horrible year; there are so many commentaries out there about what happens to democracy when you don't have news to tell people what's going on." On the slow reaction to the pandemic: "This makes me angry because the information was there; we knew what could happen, and I can pretty much say, "I lost my business." On audience reaction to the demise of the Webster-Kirkwood Times that is now back in publication: "It's a pretty unique community that continues to want its print edition." |
St. Louis Press Club's Our IN THE NOW with Alvin Reid, Editor, St. Louis American; panelist, Donnybrook, NinePBS, recorded July 21, 2020, running time: 38:42 On pivoting to the ZOOM platform for Donnybrook broadcasts: "I had my ZOOM worries.....but after we did one show I was comfortable with it.....I'm certainly looking forward to being back in the studio, but I think we found a way to bring the show to people, and people have really acknowledged it, and really, really like it." On his many years as a journalist on various platforms: "I still like to think of myself as a print journalist; I still see things through a print journalist's eye."
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Press Club Welcomes Gilbert Bailon to Board of Directors
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Gilbert Bailon, editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has been elected to the board of the St. Louis Press Club. Bailon won the Benjamin C. Bradlee 2014 Editor of the Year Award from the National Press Foundation for the Post’s coverage of a police shooting and social unrest in Ferguson that gained national attention. The newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for photography the next year and was a Pulitzer finalist for editorial writing. Joan Lee Berkman, president of St. Louis Press Club, said that Bailon’s knowledge of local and national journalism would be a great asset to the Press Club. “Gilbert's impressive journalistic background and leadership experience will be instrumental to Press Club's growing program of work,” Berkman said. “We are thrilled to welcome him to the board.” Before coming to St. Louis, Bailon worked at the Dallas Morning News and rose through the ranks from nightside reporter to deputy managing editor to vice president and executive editor. In 2003, he was named founding president and editor and then publisher of Al Dia, the newspaper’s Spanish-language daily subsidiary. AlDiaTx.com won a national Edward R. Murrow Award. Bailon has won numerous other awards for his work. A past president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, he was inducted into the NAHJ Hall of Fame. He is president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis foundation board and participates in other local Hispanic civic organizations. He’s also a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and has served on nominating juries for the Pulitzer Prizes. A native of Arizona, he was educated in journalism at the University of Arizona and earned a master’s degree in American History from the University of Texas at Arlington. |
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