February 12, 2013

Sandra Duerr, Exec.Ed. of The Tribune to speak

Next meeting:  Saturday, February 16, 2013
IHOP Restaurant
Madonna Road
San Luis Obispo, CA


Sandra Duerr, executive editor of The Tribune since 1998, has nearly 40 years experience as a reporter and editor in California, Kentucky, New Jersey and Wisconsin.  Under her leadership The Tribune has won more than 200 state and national awards.  Duerr holds a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and journalism and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.  She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1989-90 and was president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 1991-92.  She was given the Knight Ridder General Excellence Award in 2000 for her accomplishments at The Tribune. She has been a Pulitzer Prize juror three times and is a member of the Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa and the Cal Poly Journalism Advisory Board.  Duerr lives in San Luis Obispo with her children, Alex, who attends Cal Poly, and Jackie, who is a senior at San Luis Obispo High School.

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