Agenda

MPA’s 143nd Annual Convention
Beau Rivage Resort, Biloxi, MS
June 18-20, 2009

Thursday, June 18
12 Noon – MPA-MPS Board Meetings
3pm – MPAEF Board Meeting
3pm – MCFOI Board Meeting
6pm – Sunset Reception poolside at the Beau Rivage

Dinner on your own

Friday, June 19
8am – MPA Breakfast Membership Meeting – Presiding: MPA President Randy Ponder, The Sea Coast Echo
9am – General Session

  • Journalism at Home and Beyond: Practice and Principles – Dr. Will Norton Jr., Dean, School of Journalism, University of Nebraska

945am – Q&A with Gov. Haley Barbour. Introduced by Ricky Mathews, president and publisher of Sun Herald Multimedia
1045am – Q&A with State Auditor Stacey Pickering

12 noon – Afternoon activities

  • Golf tournament – Fallen Oak Golf Club
  • Tennis tournament – Bayou Bluff Tennis Club
  • MPA Cabana – Poolside at the Beau Rivage

6pm – President’s Reception
7pm – President’s Banquet & Hall of Fame Presentation
9pm – Music & Hospitality til Midnight

Saturday, June 20
8am – Concurrent Sessions until noon

  • Ethics in the Digital Age – Steve Buttry, American Press Institute
  • Design for the 21st Century – Ed Henninger, Henninger Consulting
  • Reporting Across Platforms – Dr. Samir Husni, University of Mississippi

1215pm – MPA Better Newspaper Contest Awards Luncheon – Editorial Division; moderated by Julie Johnson, The Columbian-Progress, and Mark Williams, The Bolivar Commercial.
2pm – Adjourn
6pm – Post-Convention Sunset Schooner Cruise