Missouri Press Association

10/23/2025

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You're Invited
Gary Kremer Retirement Open House
Thursday, October 30, 2025
4-6 p.m.
Center for Missouri Studies, 605 Elm Street, Columbia, Missouri
Free and Open to the Public
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Please join us for an open house reception at the Center for Missouri Studies as we honor executive director Gary Kremer for his 21 years of preserving Missouri's past and leading with vision at the State Historical Society of Missouri. Help us celebrate Gary's remarkable legacy and wish him well in his retirement!
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10/19/2025

Ten years ago today, MPA hired an outspoken young man working at the Bolivar Herald-Free Press to be editor of Missouri Press News and the weekly eBulletin. Matthew Barba has gone on to become an indispensable member of the MPA team, serving as our photographer, webmaster, tech guy, co-administrator of the annual Better Newspaper Contest, and cheerleader. Happy 10th anniversary, Matthew!

10/18/2025

MPA President Peggy Scott, Advertising Director Ted Lawrence, and Executive Director Chad Stebbins had a busy day on Friday, visiting the Springfield Business Journal, Springfield Daily Citizen, and the Springfield News-Leader. Here, they are with SBJ Executive Editor Christine Temple (far left) and SBJ Publisher Marty Goodnight (far right).

10/10/2025

MPA on the road: Chad Stebbins and Ted Lawrence visited the Lamar Democrat and the Nevada Daily Mail (pictured) on Thursday. The Daily Mail publishes four issues per week and has a staff of 17 full- and part-time employees. It is one of 12 newspaper printing plant operations remaining in the state and also has a digital print shop for smaller jobs. Publisher Lorie Harter has been with the paper for 22 years. From left to right: Stebbins, Mike Jones, Harter, editor Tammy Helm, Andy LaSota, Renee Ast, and Lawrence.

10/03/2025

MPA on the road: Ted Lawrence and Chad Stebbins had a great visit to the Lawrence County Record in Mount Vernon this morning. From left to right: Ethan Gray, Tish McBride, Lawrence, Stebbins, Ryan Squibb, Morgan Squibb, Lizy Bailey, and LeeAnna Garringer. Ryan, the editor and publisher, has a fantastic staff and a robust operation, including some job printing.

10/02/2025

Main Street Media (MSM) is selling its four remaining Missouri newspapers, after having sold the Glasgow Missourian in September.

Frank Mercer, publisher of MSM, recently penned an announcement to readers of the company’s other newspapers, announcing MSM was placing its entire Missouri newspaper division up for sale. Publications included are The Carrollton Democrat, Higginsville Advance, Lexington News and Santa Fe Times, Alma.

09/23/2025

09/17/2025

Echo Menges, editor of the Edina Sentinel, represented MPA today at a Presiding Judges’ Education Committee meeting in Branson. The focus was on cameras in the court and reporters in the courtroom. Thank you, Echo, for making the long trip from northeast to southwest Missouri and sharing your expertise.

09/15/2025

Managing Editor Andale Gross was appointed Sept. 9 as The Kansas City Star’s next executive editor, He makes history as the first Black editor to lead the 145-year-old organization. Andale replaces Greg Farmer, who recently was named executive vice president at McClatchy Media. He has spent the past two-plus years as The Star’s managing editor. Before returning to Kansas City, Andale was the race and ethnicity editor at The Associated Press, based in Chicago. But his Missouri roots run deep. He grew up about 35 miles north of Columbia in Moberly, where he met Lisa, his high school sweetheart. Now married, they have two adult sons, Aja and Avery. Andale graduated from the University of Missouri journalism school, and his first job out of college was at The Star as a suburban reporter.

09/13/2025

Winners of the 2025 Missouri Press Better Newspaper Contest were announced Saturday afternoon, Sept. 13, in Wildwood as Missouri Press Association’s 159th Annual Convention concluded.

CONTEST WINNERS and JUDGES COMMENTS can be found on the Better Newspaper Contest page of www.mopress.com.

PHOTOS of contest winners will be available via Dropbox and a link can be found on the Association's website, www.mopress.com.

09/13/2025

We start this morning with a presentation by Don Corrigan and how newspaper people can use their reporting skills to write books on different topics.