Award Category: Print & Online
William S. McNamee
William Scott McNamee, a University of Missouri journalism graduate, has built a chain of weekly farm publications with coverage stretching across the sunbelt from California to Delaware. McNamee is president and sole stockholder of Arm Press Publications, Inc., based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His publications, Delta Farm Press, Southeast Farm Press, Southwest Farm Press and California … Continued
William Woo
Woo, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has worked as a columnist, feature writer, special projects writer, foreign correspondent, editorial writer and Washington-based editorial writer during his 19 years at the newspaper. Prior to working for the Post-Dispatch, Woo was a general assignment reporter at The Kansas City Star for five years. He was also … Continued
Wes Gallagher
Wes Gallagher, president of the Associated Press, earned his journalism spurs as a foreign correspondent. His by-lined dispatches from Europe and North Africa during World War II and his coverage of historic postwar events won him many honors. AP recalled him to New York in 1951 to become general executive in charge of the association’s … Continued