129 Neff Annex
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200
Phone: 573-882-4021
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BRIAN STEFFENS, the former senior vice president and editor of the Editor & Publisher Co., is executive director of the National Newspaper Association and adjunct associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. NNA, representing nearly 3,000 community newspapers nationwide, moved its headquarters to the Missouri School of Journalism in 2002.
He has also been editor of Quill magazine and held newsroom leadership positions at several newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union, Orange County Register, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Miami Herald and Detroit News.
Steffens has been keynote speaker, conducted workshops or consulted with journalists and publishers in Qatar, Bahrain, China, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Antigua, Dominica, Barbados, Italy, Argentina, Switzerland and France.
He has been a guest lecturer at San Francisco State University; Universidad Astral in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Ohio University in Athens, Ohio; Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio; University of Dayton; Miami University at Oxford, Ohio; California State University at Long Beach, California State University at Fullerton; and Colorado State University at Ft. Collins.
Steffens has worked with the American Press Institute, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, New Directions for News, Society for Professional Journalists, Society for News Design, National Press Photographers Association, Freedom Forum and its First Amendment Center, Field Newspaper Syndicate, and the Kettering Foundation.
