MAP ANNUAL PUBLISHING SUMMIT 2007
SPEAKERS
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Jacqui Banaszynski
Associate Managing Editor, The Seattle Times, Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Jacqui Banaszynski holds the Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism and is an Editing Fellow at The Poynter Institute. She has worked as a reporter and editor for more than 30 years, most recently as associate managing editor of The Seattle Times, where she was in charge of special projects and staff development.
She spent 18 years as a beat and enterprise reporter, then worked as a projects editor at newspapers in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. While at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, her series “AIDS in the Heartland,” an intimate look at the life and death of a gay farm couple, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and a national SPJ Distinguished Service Award. She was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer in international reporting for coverage of the Ethiopian famine and won the national AP Sports Editors deadline writing contest with a story from the 1988 Summer Olympics. Her work has exposed a fraudulent developer, explored the plight of Kurdish refugees in Iraq and followed a dogsled expedition across Antarctica. She has edited several award-winning projects, including work that won the 1997 ASNE Best Feature Writing Award and the 2003 Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Writing. In 2004, she edited a four-part investigative series on the failure of public defense that was a finalist for the Goldsmith Award and for the Selden Ring Award. That same year, a series she edited on the global economy was a finalist for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for economic journalism. Banaszynski, a native of a Wisconsin farm village, is a 1974 graduate of Marquette University. She leads workshops for editors and reporters around the world, is a regular presenter at the Nieman Narrative Conference, APME NewsTrain and the National Writers Workshops, has taught at API, the University of Kansas and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, and has served as a Pulitzer juror. |
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Andrew Clay Barton
Andrew Clay Barton Communications
A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, Andrew is no stranger to publication design. He has served as creative leader for the magazines Diablo, Diablo Arts, St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles and to the trade. In addition, he has served as a creative consultant for Homes & Lifestyles Publishing and Missouri Life magazine. Andrew has received numerous design awards from the Folio: Ozzies, City and Regional Magazine Association, International and Regional Magazine Association, Western Publications Association and the Healthcare Advertising Association. Most recently, he was named to the Folio: magazine Dream Team as outstanding consumer art director. Andrew currently serves as creative team leader for Build-A-Bear Workshop and helps clients with specialized branding and redesign services through his design firm, Andrew Clay Barton Communications. |
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Cam Bishop
CEO, Ascend Media, Inc.
Cameron Bishop is President and CEO of Ascend Media, headquartered in Overland Park, Kan. He is one of the founders of the company, which was started in 2003 and financially backed by CCMP Capital (formerly J.P. Morgan Partners) and Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Prior to founding Ascend Media, Bishop served in a number of leadership positions with Intertec Publishing, the business publishing arm of Primedia, from 1977-2001, where he had the roles of president & CEO, group & division vice president, publisher and sales/marketing director at various times. He started his career as an advertising copywriter. During his time at Intertec, he helped build the business from a $7 million company with nine magazine titles to a $400 million business with nearly 100 magazines, 40 trade shows and conferences and more than 400 technical book titles. The company had EBITDA profits in excess of $100 million. He has extensive M&A experience within this industry sector, and has been involved with spearheading and integrating over 25 acquisitions during his career. He specializes in product turnarounds, acquisition integration and new product launches. At Ascend Media, he has been central to the March 2003 acquisitions of Atwood Publishing and GEM Communications, the 2004 acquisitions of SynerMed Communications and Exhibitor Visibility Worldwide, as well as the January 2005 acquisition of Medical World Communications, a publisher of 50 magazines and journals in the medical, healthcare, food, beverage and packaging industries. Ascend Media annual revenues now stand at approximately $150 million. Bishop graduated in 1977 from the Missouri School of Journalism. He has been active in numerous industry organizations, including the American Business Media, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors and also as the chairman of its Media Services Council, which oversees all of ABM's 20-plus committees. He has been recognized as one of the “Folio: 40 Most Influential People in Publishing.”
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Judy Bolch
Professor, Harte Chair in Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism
Judy Bolch, Harte Chair in Innovation, came to the Missouri School of Journalism in 1997 from The Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer where she was a managing editor. Her chair co-sponsors the Tomorrow's Newspaper Design Contest with the Society for News Design Foundation. She teaches writing using a multi-disciplinary approach. |
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John Fennell
Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
John Fennell has served as editor of Milwaukee Magazine, an award-winning monthly city magazine. The publication won some 160 awards during his 13-plus years tenure, including a nomination for the National Magazine Awards and two for the Gerald Loeb Award for Business and Financial Journalism. Fennell has just completed a book about the life of Harry V. Quadracci, the late founder of Quad/Graphics, the third largest printer in North America. John is a former newspaper reporter who worked as assistant to the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko. He was also editor of the international design journal, Step-By-Step Graphics. |
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Suzette Heiman
Associate Professor, Director of Planning and Communications, Missouri School of Journalism
Suzette Heiman is an associate professor and director of planning and communications for the Missouri School of Journalism. She oversees the school's Web site, publications and other marketing and media relations efforts. Heiman also is overseeing the activities to celebrate the centennial of the school and dedication of the Reynolds Journalism Institute in 2008, an event that is expected to attract thousands of alumni and friends. She is an accredited member of Public Relations Society of America, serves on the National Advertising Review Board and is a co-author of Public Relations: The Profession and the Practice. Heiman joined the school's faculty in 1989.
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Gregory Holman
417 Magazine
Gregory Holman is the editor of 417 Magazine, which covers Springfield, Mo., and the surrounding Ozarks region (aka 417-land, named for the telephone area code). He also serves as editorial director of all Whitaker Publishing magazines, including GO Magazine, Springfield’s biweekly tabloid of news, entertainment and culture; 417 Bride; 417 Home and 417 Encore! Before joining Whitaker Publishing in 2003, he was a freelance writer. Holman was also a junior editor at MH-18, the now-defunct teen version of Men’s Health magazine. He is a 2000 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, where he received a magazine-sequence BJ and an AB in French.
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Brant Houston
Executive Director, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., and Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Brant Houston is executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. He also is author of Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide and co-author of the fourth edition of The Investigative Reporter's Handbook. Before becoming executive director, he was managing director of the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting for two years and before that, a daily journalist for 17 years. He worked as an award-winning investigative reporter and database editor at The Hartford Courant and The Kansas City Star, where he also was part of its investigative team. He also worked for several news organizations in the Boston area. His career has included stints on the investigative and projects desk and many different beats, including city hall, courts, health, the statehouse, sports and general assignment.
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Larry Lannon
eMedia Director of Content, Ascend Media
Larry Lannon is eMedia Director of Content for Ascend Media. Lannon has been in the business-to-business media business since 1976. Previously, he was CEO of Corporate Legal Times, LLC. At CLT, Lannon worked on a turnaround and successful sale of a monthly legal services magazine and associated trade show. He was a vice president of Primedia Business Magazines & Media (now Prism, and formerly Intertec). As a Primedia VP, Lannon directed a division built around a core group of telecommunications and communications products. He was Group Publisher of Telephony and Global Telephony magazines and editor of Telephony magazine. Lannon began his career as a reporter on Telephony and subsequently was a feature writer, editor, senior editor, managing editor, features editor and columnist for Telephony. Lannon has a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a lifelong resident of Chicago , Ill. |
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Jack Miller
President, True Media
With more than 10 years of experience in radio and the print publishing business, Jack Miller knows the media business well. In addition to serving as a former broadcast media owner and market manager, he is a regular speaker on the subjects of media, advertising and long-term branding. Miller is co-founder of True Media, one of the fastest-growing media buying agencies in North America, and he serves as president of the company today. With offices in the United States and Canada, True Media specializes in helping local and national corporations determine appropriate media advertising strategies.
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Jennifer Moeller
Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Since fall of 1998, Jennifer Moeller has taught five magazine classes in the Missouri School of Journalism including Magazine Editing, Magazine Design, Advanced Magazine Design, Magazine Staff and Intermediate Writing. She also is editorial director of Vox, an award-winning weekly city magazine that appears in the Columbia Missourian newspaper and is distributed throughout Columbia.
In November 2006, Moeller helped launch an update to the Vox magazine Web site that includes a searchable database of area restaurants, bars and music venues.
She worked as communications coordinator and editor for an association in St. Louis from 1989 to 1996. Moeller also served as president of an association of editors during that time. She has a bachelor¹s and master¹s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. Moeller is a contributing editor for Italian Cooking and Living magazine as well as the Magazine of Cucina Italiana. Recent freelance writing projects have appeared in Elle, Real Simple and Missouri Life magazines. In 2004 she was a recipient of the Provost¹s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award.
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Fred Parry
Owner and Publisher, Inside Columbia Magazine
Fred Parry is the owner and publisher of Inside Columbia magazine. He has worked on newspapers in Chacago, Washington , D.C. and Pittsburgh, and spent three years on the advertising faculty at the Missouri School of Journalism. He worked as an advertising executive for the Gannett newspaper chain before he and his wife started their own publishing company, Parry Publishing, Inc., in 1994. In 1999, the Parrys merged their company¹s seven publications with the radio stations of the Premier Marketing Group. Parry hosted the KFRU Business Times radio program on Sunday mornings for six years before becoming the permanent co-host of the Morning Meeting in April 2001. Parry sold his remaining interests in Parry Publishing in January 2005 and started Inside Columbia. Parry is active in the community, serving as an elected member of the Board of Trustees for Boone Hospital Center, commissioner for the Columbia Housing Authority and former president of Columbia's Northwest Rotary Club. He also serves on the boards of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce and Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre. In June 2006, Parry was named the 2006 Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce.
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Don Ranly, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Missouri School of Journalism:
Don Ranly, professor emeritus of the Missouri School of Journalism, was head of the magazine sequence for 28 years. Dr. Ranly has worked as a newspaper reporter, a magazine editor, a weekly columnist and a radio host and television producer, director and host. He has conducted more than 1,000 communication seminars for corporations, associations, organizations and individual newspapers and magazines. He has been a featured speaker at The Folio: Show, a national magazine conference, for the past two decades. He has co-authored News Reporting and Writing; Beyond the Inverted Pyramid and Telling the Story: The Convergence of Print, Broadcast and Online Media and is author of Publication Editing. In 1995 Dr. Ranly received a University of Missouri-Columbia Faculty-Alumni Award and was named the O.O. McIntyre Distinguished Professor of Journalism for 1995-96. In 1998, he received a Gold Chalk Award for outstanding service in the training and mentoring of professional students. In June 2002, he was named a Fellow of the International Association of Business Communicators. In 2003, he won a William T. Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. In 2005 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Business Publications Editors. In 2004 he founded the Missouri Association of Publications.
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David Rees
Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
David Rees
is associate professor and chair of the photojournalism sequence at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he has taught since 1986. He also is co-director of the Missouri Photo Workshop and for six years was director of the Pictures of the Year International competition. Rees has participated in seminars for the Poynter Institute, Scripps Howard and National Press Photographers Association and in workshops on newspaper picture desk management and creating photo columns. He has worked as a newspaper and magazine photographer and maintains interest in grassroots photojournalism and in online publishing. |
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Reubin Stern
Columbia Missourian
Reuben Stern teaches at the Missouri School of Journalism and serves as the managing editor of the city's morning newspaper, the Columbia Missourian. Before coming to Missouri, Stern was the design editor for the Los Angeles Daily News, where he oversaw the design and launch of a new entertainment section that appeared concurrently in seven different newspapers. Prior to that he was the art director and later editor of The Budapest Sun, an English-language newspaper in Hungary, where he lived for five years. He also has spent several years working as a freelance editor and graphic designer. Stern graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism and started his career in the graphics department at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Steve
Weinberg
Professor of Magazine Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism
Steve Weinberg graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1970, returning later for a master's degree. He started in newspaper newsrooms, moved to magazines so he could write longer features, and then shifted to book writing with its immense word counts. Today, he supplements his book writing with freelance magazine features, newspaper op-ed pieces and book reviews. His books include a guide to journalism in Washington, D.C. (Trade Secrets of Washington Journalists, Acropolis, 1981), a biography of Armand Hammer (Little, Brown, 1989), a guide to reading and writing biography (Telling the Untold Story, University of Missouri Press, 1992), and The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques, published by St. Martin's Press and commissioned by Investigative Reporters and Editors, 1996. Weinberg currently is writing a biography of Ida Tarbell under contract to W.W. Norton and the centennial history of the Missouri School of Journalism, commissioned by Dean Mills and under contract to the University of Missouri Press. |
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Gary Whitaker
Owner, Publisher, 417 Magazine and President, Missouri Association of Publications
Gary Whitaker bought 417 Magazine, the monthly lifestyle magazine serving Springfield and southwest Missouri, in 2001 and made it the flagship title of a new firm called Whitaker Publishing. Since that time, 417 Magazine has grown from 44 side-stitched pages to a perfect-bound, 200-page magazine with more than 130,000 readers. In 2003 and 2004, the City and Regional Magazine Association ranked 417 Magazine number one, among all members, in percentage of increased ad pages. Along with 417 Magazine, the company now publishes the semiannual 417 Bride, the quarterly 417 Home, a luxury-lifestyle magazine for Baby Boomers called 417 Encore and a biweekly Springfield news and entertainment title, GO Magazine. Whitaker Publishing also takes on custom projects and publishes the Web sites www.417mag.com and www.springfieldgo.com. Gary is a 1975 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, with an emphasis in broadcasting. Prior to forming Whitaker Publishing, he spent 25 years in television news and management. His wife, Joan, is co-owner of Whitaker Publishing and serves as the company's general manager. |
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