313 Lee Hills Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200
Phone: 573-884-6149
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MARGARET WALTER joined the MU faculty in August 2003 as an assistant professor/news editor at the Columbia Missourian. She also serves as Taste editor for the Missourian. Previously she had been features editor at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.
She is a graduate of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., with a bachelor of science and master of arts degrees in journalism. She has served as wire editor, news editor, business editor, assistant Sunday editor and Sunday editor at The Telegraph/The Sunday Telegraph in Nashua, N.H.; city government, business and economic development reporter at The Anderson (Ind.) Bulletin; features reporter at The Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune; and stints as editor at two weekly newspapers. She is a former president of the New Hampshire Press Association and of the New England Associated Press News Executives Association. She is a member of the Society for News Design and the Society of Professional Journalists.
