Red Smith, a legendary sports columnist for the New York Times, broke into newspapering in 1927 as a general assignment reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel soon after graduating from Notre Dame. In 1928 he joined the St. Louis Star as a copyreader and soon went to sports. Smith headed east to the Philadelphia Record in … Continued

Victor A. Gierke has been publisher of the Press-Journal, a semi-weekly in Louisiana, Mo., since 1949. He started at the paper as managing editor and over the years has bought stock in the paper so it is now family-owned. Gierke is past president of both the Missouri Press Association and the Northeast Missouri Press Association. … Continued