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The news was much more positive, and the attendance higher than in recent years for the annual news industry event.

Could mobile apps replace the evening newscast or even jeopardize the whole broadcast model? And is there opportunity in covering just one single topic?

Molly Bingham found herself being held prisoner in Iraq by men who thought she was a spy. The experience helped inspire her to find a way to present “the true global perspective currently missing in journalism.”

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News organizations need to be in the hands of journalists who are willing to actively listen to and hear feedback, says Joy Mayer, director of community outreach at the Columbia Missourian newspaper.

Is covering climate change going to be ultimate test of the value of journalism?

“People challenging my views on Twitter makes me a better journalist,” CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper told an audience of professionals, educators and students at the 2013 Hurley Symposium.

A senior researcher for the Pew Research Center said about 20 percent of social media users have defriended or blocked someone whose partisan posts became a little too much.

Moderator Barbara Cochran, Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Journalism began the panel discussion with a startling statistic: 80 percent of television viewers use another device while watching TV.

Panelists at the Curtis B. Hurley Symposium at the National Press Club said Twitter had a profound impact on their daily job requirements, speeding up the news cycle and increasingly shifting the conversation from pundits to the public.

Many participants and audience members of the 2013 Curtis B. Hurley Symposium tweeted about the statements they found most compelling from the day's events.

What is your audience doing on their smartphones while watching news on TV? And are you capitalizing on all those mobile devices in their hands?

One of my journalism professors at Mizzou would often pound into us that journalism was not only about “who, what, when, where, why and how” but also “so what?” and “who cares?”

How can journalists use social media to dig deeper into issues to make stories richer and audiences bigger?

At the Columbia Missourian, every department in the newsroom geared up to cover Tigers football during its SEC-inaugural year like never before. Could we pull it off? Happily, the answer was yes.

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