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Pam Johnson
Leadership & Management faculty
pjohnson@poynter.org

Pam Johnson recently joined the leadership faculty at The Poynter Institute. She previously was with Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. for 12 years, beginning as managing editor of The Phoenix Gazette in 1989. After four years, she became managing editor of The Arizona Republic. In September 1996, she was named as senior vice president/news and executive editor of The Republic. Prior to joining Phoenix Newspapers she was assistant managing editor at the Kansas City Star, where she worked for 13 years. Pam is a past president of the Associated Press Managing Editors and is a founder of the Journalism and Women's Symposium, which sponsors a weekend retreat once a year for women in newspapers. She is also a board member of ASNE and is affiliated with IRE, SPJ, the Foundation for American Communications (FACS), and the Missourian Publishing Association. She recently received The Missouri School of Journalism Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, the highest honor bestowed by the School of Journalism, which is where she received her bachelor's degree. Pam has worked for the Joplin, Mo. Globe; The Evening Press in Binghamton, N.Y., and the Kansas City Times. She has judged many journalism contests, including the Pulitzers four times and the ASNE Writing Awards for three years. She shared in the staff Pulitzer that honored The Kansas City Star for its coverage of the Hyatt Skywalk collapse.