Jean Maneke had a career that affected almost every newspaper in Missouri as the press association’s first legal hotline attorney. Her newspaper roots began much earlier, when she was editor …
Ken Newton earned his bachelor’s degree in English and journalism from Southeast Missouri State University. He joined the newspaper profession in 1980 at the former Bulletin-Journal in Cape …
Linda Geist started in the news business as a 16-year-old at her hometown newspaper, The Monroe City News , where she made $1 an hour. As a teenager, she produced her first special edition, and …
Mará Rose Williams has been with The Kansas City Star since 1998, but her extensive career and portfolio of impressive work goes back to her start fresh out of Ohio University E.W. Scripps …
Mark Maassen was the former advertising director for The Kansas City Star and former executive director of MPA. While with The Star, he also served as MPA president in 2013. Attending the …
Missouri Press' Trustees for the Public looks back on 200 years of Missouri newspapers from the state's first wilderness newspaper to the founding of the world's first school of journalism and much more.
Join Dr. William H. Taft, professor emeritus at the Missouri School of Journalism, for a tour of the world's first journalism school and the history behind the Missouri Method.
Out of Missouri’s storied newspaper history evolved two forces that would shape the future of journalism: Walter Williams (1864-1935) and the Missouri Press Association (est. 1867).
The Editor is Absent: Tribulation & Triumph in Missouri’s Pioneer Press. Presented by The State Historical Society of Missouri’s MoHiP Theatre. Sponsored by Missouri Press Association.
Joplin, Missouri changed forever on May 22, 2011. An EF-5 tornado ripped apart the Southwest Missouri town of 50,000 residents. 161 people died. Thousands of homes and businesses, including a hospital were destroyed. Ten schools crumbled ...
The Missouri Newspaper Hall of Fame’s ranks have grown by four with the induction of the 35th class of honorees during Missouri Press Association’s 159th Annual Convention and Trade Show …
Missouri’s Sunshine Law is vital to ensuring that government works for all citizens, at every level. A healthy democracy relies on an engaged citizenry and transparency by government officials is essential to that democracy.
