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Favre Distinguished Fellow gfavre@poynter.org Gregory Favre is a distinguished fellow of journalism values at The Poynter Institute. He was born in New Orleans and grew up working on the family newspaper in Mississippi. He was assistant sports editor at the Atlanta Journal; managing editor at the Dayton Daily News; editor of the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post; news director at WPLG-TV in Miami; editor of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times; managing editor of the Chicago Daily News; and managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. He served as executive editor of The Sacramento Bee from 1984 to 1998. Favre was appointed vice president of news of The McClatchy Company in 1989 and retired from there this year before coming to Poynter. He is a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, past chairman of the Program committee, the Readership committee, the Journalism Education committee, and the Future of Newspapers committee. In 1992 he was named News Executive of the Year by the California Press Association. He is a recipient of the Silver Em Award from the University of Mississippi, 1996, and The 1997 National Association of Minority Media Executives Catalyst award for leadership in advocating and advancing diversity. He is Chairman of the Foundation for American Communications, on the Board of Directors of the Inter American Press Association, and the National Campaign Against Youth Violence. Favre serves on the Board of Visitors for the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, for the University of California, Berkeley, School of Journalism; for the University of California, Davis, Medical School; and is past president of the California Society of Newspaper Editors. He is on the Board of Advisors for the University of Southern California Journalism School, National Co-chair of the Maynard Circle, and member of the Advisory Committee for The Lutheran magazine. His wife, Beatrice, is a clinical psychologist and they have two adult children, Monica Kauppinen and Jeff Favre and one grandchild, Melitta Kauppinen. |
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