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Albright, Ryon compete for secretary position.


SUSAN ALBRIGHT JOINED the Star Tribune For the Wyoming newspaper, see .

The Star Tribune (also Star trib or Strib, as it is often referred to) is the largest newspaper in the U.S.
 in Minneapolis in February as editor of its editorial pages. She has been a member of NCEW NCEW National Conference of Editorial Writers  since 1986, just after she became editorial page editor of The Arizona Daily Star The Arizona Daily Star is the major morning daily newspaper that serves Tucson, Arizona, and Southern Arizona. It is currently owned by Lee Enterprises.

The Star is in a joint operating agreement with the Tucson Citizen
 in Tucson.

Since then, Albright has served NCEW in a number of capacities. She is completing a term on the NCEW board, has served on the Nominating Committee A nominating committee is a group formed usually from inside the membership of an organization for the purpose of nominating candidates for office within the organization. It works similarly to an electoral college, the main difference being that the available candidates, either , and was chair of the Outreach Committee for three years. She has written articles for The Masthead mast·head  
n.
1. Nautical The top of a mast.

2. The listing in a newspaper or periodical of information about its staff, operation, and circulation.

3.
 and currently is heading a task force exploring the role opinion pages play in affecting newspaper readership.

Earlier in her career, Albright held a variety of editing posts at The Arizona Daily Star, the Louisville Times and the Syracuse Herald-Journal The Syracuse Herald-Journal was an evening newspaper in Syracuse, New York from 1939 until Sep 29 2001, with roots back to 1839. The name came from the merger of the Syracuse Herald and the Syracuse Journal. . She has a master's degree master's degree
n.
An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree.

Noun 1.
 from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications and a bachelor's degree in English from Kent State University.

Albright wants to help NCEW continue to be strong in two major ways: in its role as an advocate for forceful, principled opinion functions in North American North American

named after North America.


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 newspapers and broadcast media, and in its role as a supportive catalyst for continuous improvement among editorialists. She supports NCEW's current efforts in finding common interests and coordinating its efforts with other journalism organizations.

Sue Ryon is assistant editorial page editor of The Milwaukee Journal. She has worked for the Journal for 17 years, the past nine as an editorial writer specializing in health care and other social issues.

Ryon also has been a copy editor and copy desk chief for the Journal, and worked briefly in Madison, Wis., as a copy editor for The Capital Times.

She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and English from Indiana University. Her editorials have won numerous awards, both in state and local contests and in national competition sponsored by the Education Writers Association.

A member of NCEW since 1986, Ryon is completing her third year as editor of The Masthead. Prior to that she served as deputy editor. Ryon also has chaired the Nominating Committee and been a member of the Minority Affairs Committee.

Much of her work in NCEW has focused on making the organization more inclusive and broadening its range of voices. She would like to see NCEW work even harder to reach out to those opinion writers who feel excluded by traditional journalism organizations even as it strives to become ever more relevant to its longtime, devoted members.
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Title Annotation:Convention '93; 'Star Tribune' editor Susan Albright; 'Milwaukee Journal' editor Sue Ryon; National Conference of Editorial Writers secretary
Publication:The Masthead
Date:Sep 22, 1993
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