Earnest Perry
Associate Professor, Chair, Journalism Studies
Earnest Perry is an associate professor and chair of the journalism studies emphasis area at the Missouri School of Journalism. After earning his bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University, he joined the staff of the Columbia Missourian as a city editor. While working full time at the Missourian, Perry earned master’s and doctorate degrees from the School. He has published articles on history and management in several journals including American Journalism, Journalism History and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Bob Allen
Robert (Bob) Allen is a professor at Drexel University. His recent research has focused on developing techniques to improve access to digital history. In particular, Dr. Allen has developed several novel interactive graphical timelines. He has also developed techniques for text processing and indexing of digitized historical newspapers.
Bernard F. Reilly
Bernard F. Reilly is President of the Center for Research Libraries, a consortium of 250 university, college and independent research libraries in the U.S., Canada and Hong Kong.
Chris Cowan
Chris Cowan is Vice President, Publishing for ProQuest, LLC. Over the past 10 years, he has been responsible for overseeing the creation and development of ProQuest’s Historical Newspaper product line and managing ProQuest Genealogy businesses, Microfilm publishing, Student Research publishing, and Archival E-commerce services for major newspaper publishers.
Patrick Cox
Patrick Cox is the associate director with The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas of Austin.
