In memoriam.Sonja Hillgren, Sr. VP, Editorial, for Farm Journal Media, died after battling brain cancer. Originally from Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, city (1990 pop. 100,814), seat of Minnehaha co., SE S.Dak., on the Big Sioux River; settled 1856, inc. as a village 1877, as a city 1883. Settlers abandoned the site in 1862 because of Native American raids, but with the establishment (1865) of Fort , SD, she received a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Missouri Missouri, state, United States Missouri (mĭz  r`ē, –ə), one of the midwestern states of the United States. and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college.
Harvard CollegeHarvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. . During her career, she worked as the ag reporter for Knight-Ridder and UPI UPI abbr. United Press International before joining Farm Journal as its Washington D.C. Bureau Chief in 1990. From 1995 through 2004, she served as Editor of the magazine before her promotion to Sr. VP. Under her leadership, the Farm Journal editors have won numerous awards and honors for their coverage of the agricultural industry. In 1996, she was elected and served as Pres of the National Press Club--the only ag communicator to have done so. |
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