158th Annual MPA Convention & Trade Show
Early Bird Special! Save $20-$50 on Base Registration – Deadline August 20
To reserve a room at the MPA special rate of $169, please contact group manager Debra Yokum, at sales@hotelvandivort.com or call 417-851-5209 by August 19
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Tentative Schedule:
THURSDAY, September 19
11AM | Registration Open
Noon | MPF Board Meeting | Cornerstone Room
2PM | MPA/MPS Board Meeting | Ballroom
6:30-9PM | Foundation Fundraiser
Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar
FRIDAY, September 20
7:30AM-6:30PM | Registration and Better Newspaper Contest Photo Displays | Living Room
8AM-4PM | Trade Show Open | Living Room
8:15AM | Breakfast Program and Welcome | Ballroom| Making Your Own Swift Beat | Bryan West, Gannett’s Taylor Swift Reporter
9AM | General Session | Ballroom | Tent. Appealing to Young Readers Panel
9:45AM | Break Tradeshow Area | Living Room
10:15AM | General Session | Ballroom | Using AI in Ads: Mortality, Machines, and Magic Words | Gabriel Cassady, 2 Oddballs Marketing
11:15AM | General Session | Ballroom| Earn Your Ad & Press Pass | Joey and Lindsey Young
Noon | Lunch
12:15PM | Lunch Program | Ballroom | From Missouri to Outer Space! | Astronaut Dr. Linda Godwin
1PM | Business Meeting | Ballroom
1:15-1:40PM | Sundae Break | Living Room
2PM | Political Forums | Fox Theater
157 Park Central Square
2PM |Gubernatorial
3:20PM | Senate
6PM | Hall of Fame Reception | Ballroom
6:20PM | Silent Auction Ends | Ballroom | Last Call for Bids!
6:30PM | Hall of Fame Dinner | Ballroom
Est. 8:30PM | Hospitality Room Open | Master Suite
SATURDAY, September 21
7:30AM-Noon | Registration and Better Newspaper
Contest Photo Displays | Living Room
8:30AM | Breakfast Program| Ballroom | Susan Croce Kelly, “Newspaper Women of the Ozarks”
9:15-9:30AM | Break | Living Room
9:30-10:15AM | General Session | Cornerstone Room | Nick Mathews, University of MO
Facebook vs. Smalltown Newspapers
10:15-11:15AM | General Session | Cornerstone Room | Free Press? The Marion Co. Record Raid, Emily Bradbury
11:30AM | Better Newspaper Contest Lunch | Ballroom
