Steve Buttry in Cedar Rapids, IA | Texas Christian University

Steve Buttry

Male, 65 years old

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I lead efforts to transform the working and thinking of newsrooms of Digital First Media, including their work with community engagement and social media. I was previously Director of Community Engagement for TBD.com. I spent nearly two years at Gazette Communications, serving as Editor and C Innovation Coach. I was named Editor of the Year in by Editor Publisher magazine. I spent three years at the American Press Institute, mostly working in the teaching and research of the Newspaper Next project. I have worked as an editor, reporter and writing coach for the Evening Sentinel in Shenandoah, Iowa Des Moines Register Kansas City Star and Times, Minot (ND) Daily News and Omaha World-Herald. I have trained and consulted with journalists and news media executives in states and nine Canadian provinces in addition to Washington, D.C., Mexico, Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador and Russia. My training materials and articles about our business have been used by journalists, students and newspaper executives around the world and translated into at least eight languages. Specialties community engagement, social media, digital-first journalism, innovation, leadership, management, writing, reporting, editing, ethics read more ...