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Looks at journalism and the press in Missouri's last 200 years. Remembers such journalists as Joseph Charless, Mark Twain, Eugene Field, Joseph Pulitzer, Ernest Hemingway, Walter Williams, and others. Describes the Missouri Press Association's role in founding the State Historical Society of Missouri

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Looks at journalism and the press in Missouri's last 200 years. Remembers such journalists as Joseph Charless, Mark Twain, Eugene Field, Joseph Pulitzer, Ernest Hemingway, Walter Williams, and others. Describes the Missouri Press Association's role in founding the State Historical Society of Missouri in 1898 and the Missouri School of Journalism in 1998. Long-time publishers and editors of Missouri newspapers tell stories of their careers, from the days of newspaper carriers on street corners to the emergence of newspapers on the Internet. At the end of the program, Ron Powers, an award-winning journalist from Hannibal, Mo. and graduate of the Universitiy of Missouri, reads the Journalist's creed (written by Walter Williams, Boonville, Mo.) to honor his school and his profession.

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Title: Trustees for the public
200 years of Missouri newspapers
[videorecording]

Publisher: Missouri Press Association , Distributed by the State Historical Society of Missouri

Alternate Title: History of Missouri newspapers [videorecording]
Journalist's creed
Two hundred years of Missouri newspapers [videorecording]
Journalist's creed [videorecording]
200 years of Missouri newspapers [videorecording]

Additional Contributors: Pike, Beth
Hudnell, Stephen
Ruffin, Clyde
Powers, Ron

Imprint: Columbia, Mo. : - Missouri Press Association , Distributed by the State Historical Society of Missouri

Pages: 58

Language: English

Credits: Executive producer, Missouri Press Association; Doug Crews, executive director; directed by Beth Pike and Stephen Hudnell; music by Sandra M. Levy Smith.

Performers: Narrator, Clyde Ruffin ; voices, Peter Belger, Scott Charton, Dalton C. Wright, Beth Pike.

Notes: DVD format. Standard presentation.

Statement of responsibility: directed by Beth Pike & Stephen Hudnell ; producer/writer, Beth Pike

Characteristics: 1 videodisc (58 min.) :,sd., col. with b&w sequences ;,4 3/4 in.

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