Interview

We will have the opportunity to interview Dennis Ellsworth. Please write some questions in your journal that you would like to ask him.

Here is a bio of Dennis...

As executive editor of the News-Press, Dennis Ellsworth directs a newsroom of about 45 employees, including responsibilities for recruitment, staff development and overall supervision. He also leads daily selections of stories for section fronts and discussions of how stories and photographs should be presented, and directs the opinion pages.A native of rural eastern Kansas, he joined the News-Press in 2000 after being an editor and assistant editor for newspapers in Kansas and Texas.Dennis earned his bachelor of science in journalism from the University of Kansas in 1976.He has served as a chairman of the Missouri Associated Press Managing Editors and twice as president of the Northwest Missouri Press Association. He also was a Knight Ridder Fellow in the Visiting Journalists Program at Duke University."My interest in journalism took hold during a turbulent news era for the country, including the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal," he said. "As a college student with an interest in political science, I was drawn to the profession and became swept up in the campus coverage of events. Over time, I became deeply committed to journalism as a force for good in society." **Contact Dennis :** //(816)271-8550; dennis.ellsworth@newspressnow.com//