Category: 1980s

CATEGORIES: 1980s, Alumni Profiles, Journalism and Mass Communication

David Kurns ’82

Class: 1982; Journalism and Mass Communication Then: Iowa State Daily (sports and news reporter) Now: Editorial Content Director, Meredith Agrimedia In his own words: After graduation, I started as the Nevada Bureau Chief for the Ames Tribune. I left in June 1982 for the Quad-City Times. In 1989, I joined Meredith Corporation, copy editing Better Homes … Continue reading David Kurns ’82

CATEGORIES: 1980s, Alumni Profiles, Greenlee Glimpse 2014, Journalism and Mass Communication

Rick Montgomery ‘82

As you enter the Kansas City Star’s newsroom, take a right past the Octagon of Knowledge, (employees call it the “Ook,”) and through a maze of cubicles to find Rick Montgomery among 3-foot piles of notes and letters. Montgomery, a Star feature writer, is a traditional journalist. There are a couple coffee-stained reporter’s notebooks all … Continue reading Rick Montgomery ‘82