A professor at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin has been named the next Executive Director of Missouri Press Association.
Chad Stebbins will become Missouri Press Association’s next executive director after the Board of Directors met during the 158th Annual Convention to interview finalist candidates for the role.
Stebbins is currently a professor of communications at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, where he is also the director of the Institute of International Studies. He has served as executive director of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) since 1999.
Stebbins received the Walter Williams Award from the Missouri Writers Guild in 2022 for writing “Joplin’s Connor Hotel,” published by The History Press. His biography of Arthur Aull, the longtime editor and publisher of the Lamar Democrat, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 1998.
He was also the advisor for MSSU’s student newspaper, The Chart, for 15 years. Stebbins officially begins duties with the Association Jan. 6, and succeeds Mark Maassen, who is retiring in February.
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