Jack Shelley is a pioneer of broadcast journalism. During World War II, he covered the Battle of the Bulge and the surrender of the Japanese on the battleship Missouri for WHO Radio in Des Moines.
John Madson (1951) is considered the father of the modern prairie restoration movement. He wrote about the natural history and resource conservation of rivers, prairies, plains, and deserts.
Geneva Overholser began reporting at the Colorado Springs Sun before freelancing from Africa and Europe for five years. She then joined the editorial page of the Des Moines Register, moved to The New York Times editorial staff, and returned to Des Moines as editor of the Register in 1988.
Don Arends (1952) worked as an advertising writer, advertising coordinator and corporate communications director before founding his own marketing firm in 1958. Arends, Inc. is based near Chicago and serves local, regional, national and multi-national corporate clients.
Robert Kowalski (1966, 1977) was trained as a medical journalist and has written award-winning television public service announcements, patient-education materials, and for a variety of health publications for over three decades.
Leo Mores (1938) started his newspaper career as a carrier for the Des Moines Register in the eighth grade and continued through high school at the Seymour Herald. After college, he worked as advertising manager at the Rockwell City Advocate.
Terry Anderson (1974) joined the Associated Press and worked in Asia and Africa before being assigned to Lebanon as the chief Mideast correspondent in 1982.
William E. Ames (1952) is the author of The History of the National Intelligencer, a definitive history of the first and most influential newspaper in Washington D.C. until 1869.
Roy Reiman (1957) joined Capper’s Farmer magazine and became managing editor at the age of 23. In 1964, he launched his own company, Reiman Publications, in the basement of his home.
Tom Knudson (1980) won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1985 for his series of Des Moines Register articles examining the occupational dangers of farming.