Daughter Nicole joins Dad in reading the Greeley Tribune. Across my career, I wrote many personal columns about my family, including this one, published in the Victoria Advocate after she graduated from the University of Texas-Austin with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Look below for her Father's Day column about having an editor Dad.
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Daughter is not the enemy of the peopleGood Journalism Makes Better Neighbors
Good Journalism Makes Better Neighbors
Journalists should be that close friend who cheers your successes, cries over your losses, and pushes you to be better than you ever thought possible. We're all family, after all. At two different newspapers, we did this and were named the best in the country for our size and, at one, received the Robert McGruder Award for Diversity Leadership, the most prestigious national award for all newspapers working on this critical cause of connecting our communities through trusted local news and information. Across almost 45 years in journalism, I worked to build newsrooms that earn trust, strengthen communities and help people be better neighbors. During much of 2026, I've focused on family as my two aging parents battled health problems together. How they lived — and died — inspires me to keep serving on this next step in my journey.
Work experience
February 2021 - April 2026Work experience
CEO, Editor & Publisher
July 2020 - January 2021
Contract work, Texas Press Association, National Freedom of Information Coalition
Capitol Highlights columnist at TPA; outreach manager at NFOIC
April 2007 - June 2020
Editor & Publisher (started as editor)
Interactive Division Publisher, Digital First Lead
August 2005 - June 2006
Nieman Fellow
Editor
September 1993 - October 1995
Managing Editor
September 1987 - September 1993
Assistant managing editor, city editor, news editor
September 1983 - September 1985
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Reporter
June 1982 - September 1983
Reporter
Education
Education
August 2005 - June 2006
Harvard University, Nieman Fellowship
University of Kansas, bachelor's in journalism
1978 - 1980
When portfolio articles appear behind a paywall, I try to also link to a Google Drive archival copy. Here is the link for the story about the remarkable ALS documentary. And here is the link for my column about "fake news, hate speech." Of course, you always should support your local news organizations with your subscriptions or donations. Trusted local news should be free to read, but it's not free to produce.
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