The APME conference of 2009 was held at the Hyatt Hotel, St. Louis.  The conference lasted for three days.  On its first day, eager participants were welcomed at St. Louis’ City Museum.  There was an elegant reception and silent auction.  The said gathering was followed by discussions and workshops at the Hyatt hotel function rooms.  For details description of the events, please go to Opening Reception, New Directions for News, Losing Focus, and Workshop pages.

The second day of APME 2009 conference was initialized by a talk by Eric Berger about online credibility of news, followed by the proposed stimulus plan, there was also a brief convocation about the developments at the Associated Press and several awards were given during lunch.  There was a concurrent workshop and photomanagers.  The day was capped off by a workshop.

Time flew so fast.  It was sad but the conference had to come to an end.  The third day started with the Innovator of the Year Award.  There was also a session about Social Media at 10 AM which was followed by award giving by lunch.  There was a photjournalism presentation by Eric Berger.