January 2009

For months now, Alexandra Wharton and students in her global online marketing course at the Missouri School of Journalism have been sowing the Internet with chat and commentary contrived to draw users to a new online video news service, Newsy.com.

Who knew that tucked away in a strip mall on Bernadette Drive in Columbia is one of the major players in the soccer retailing business: SoccerPro, which is attracting customers from New Jersey to New Zealand.

University of Missouri system president Gary Forsee’s presence at U.S. Sen. Kit Bond’s retirement announcement could be seen as an example of the symbiotic relationship between the state’s senior senator and Missouri’s flagship campus. After Bond took a few questions from reporters at the Jan. 8 gathering, the four-term lawmaker cajoled Forsee to come up

When it comes to selecting a new chief of police for the city, why go outside Columbia and make a selection from a group of four unknowns when the best candidate is already on the job? Let’s strip the word “interim” from Tom Dresner’s title and make him our new police chief. On the job

Late last year, some friends of mine convinced me that I needed to create a profile on Facebook and another one on LinkedIn, which is supposed to be like a Facebook for business people. “This is not for me,” I thought. “No one needs to know about me or what I do in my spare