The Joplin tornado eventually claimed 161 lives, as several people died of their injuries in the days and weeks after the storm. That will be followed by a reception for all attending. After the film, members of The Globe staff will answer questions from the audience. Tickets cost $10 per person.Ī silent auction in the theater lobby to raise funds for Joplin will begin at 6 p.m. in the Missouri Theatre, Ninth and Locust streets in downtown Columbia. “Deadline in Disaster,” produced by the Missouri Press Foundation, will be shown at 7 p.m. The story of how The Globe carried out that mission has been told in a film that will premiere on Thursday, May 3. That duty became a mission for the newspaper, a mission to tell the stories about all of the tragedies and miracles, the victims and the heroes, the responses of neighbors and the world. Then began The Globe’s duty to report on the storm and its impact on the community and the entire region. Both were damaged beyond repair as a third of the city, in a swath nearly a mile wide, blew apart when the massive vortex chewed through its center. Joplin Globe Front Page from May 23, 2011Īmong the buildings squarely in the storm’s 13-mile-long furrow were the high school and the city’s main hospital. An EF-5 tornado, the most violent kind, made a direct hit on the community of 50,000 in the southwest corner of Missouri. Moments after The Globe covered the graduation program for local high school seniors on Sunday, May 22, the lives of Joplin residents changed forever. (March 7, 2012) - The Missouri School of Journalism is helping to organize the premiere of a film about The Joplin (Mo.) Globe‘s response to a devastating tornado that hit the town in 2011 as well as a silent auction to benefit Joplin. Proceeds of Silent Auction Will Benefit Memorial to Victims and SurvivorsĬolumbia, Mo. Missouri Statehouse Reporting Program Expand.Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) Expand Murray Center for Documentary Journalism Expand Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk Expand.McDougall Center for Photojournalism Studies Expand.Frank Lee Martin Journalism Library Expand.Resources for High School Teachers Expand.
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