Mary Kimbrough, 1992 St. Louis Media Person of the Year and the first woman to receive the honor, began her career at the Tulsa Tribune after doing graduate work at the University of Oklahoma. In the early 1940s, she went to work for the St. Louis Star times and Eventually became its women’s page editor. … Continued

Mark Russell, BJ ’84, is the editor of the Orlando Sentinel. He joined the central Florida newsroom in 2004 and served as managing editor and print news editor before taking the top newsroom job in October 2010. Previously Russell was at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, the largest newspaper in Ohio. He joined The Plain … Continued

Margaret Wolf Freivogel is the founding editor of the St. Louis Beacon, a non-profit regional news organization that is known for combining journalistic excellence with innovation in community engagement and business strategy. The Beacon provides news that matters for St. Louis-area residents, with emphasis on politics, the economy, health, education, race and the arts. Beacon … Continued

Malvina Lindsay was a graduate of the School of Journalism in 1913. She has worked on the Kansas City Post and Journal-Post since 1913. She has been a reporter, staff features correspondent, connected with the Universal Service, and a contributor to magazines such as The American Mercury, The Nation, and The Survey-Graphic.

Chief of the Washington bureau of the United Press Association and alumnus of the School of Journalism

Lucile Bluford, editor and publisher is an active journalist in a number of ways. Bluford began expressing her views in 1938, when she sued the University of Missouri School of Journalism for denying her admittance to the graduate program because of her race. She lost the case because of the “separate but equal” policy. Bluford … Continued

Linda Deutsch, an Associated Press special correspondent and graduate of Monmouth college, is considered to be one of the nation’s best legal reporters. She covered the trials of Sirhan Sirhan, Charles Manson, Patricia Hearst, John DeLorean and Exxon Valdez Capt. Joseph Hazelwood. More recently, she covered the trials of William Kennedy Smith and the four … Continued