Steve Fairchild

Editor, Today's Farmer

Steve Fairchild has been covering Midwest agriculture in Missouri publications for the past 11 years. After graduating from the University of Missouri, Fairchild joined the Missouri Ruralist as a field editor in 1994. In 2001 he moved to Today's Farmer as an associate editor and became editor there in 2004.

Ron Fauss

Ron has been with MultiAd since November of 2006 as a Business Development Manager. His primary sales areas are working with magazine and book publishers as well as with colleges and universities on alumni magazines, admissions materials, athletic media guides and gameday programs. Prior to working for MultiAd, Fauss worked for Kelly Press in Columbia, MO from 2000 – ’06 as the national sales manager for sports printing. Fauss is a ’94 graduate of Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.

Jim McCarty

Editor, Rural Missouri magazine

Rural Missouri Jim McCarty joined the staff of Rural Missouri in November of 1985 and became editor in 1987. He oversees a staff of six who have won hundreds of awards for photography, writing and publications. Jim was the writer of the year for the Cooperative Communicators Association in 1994 and in 1995 won that group's Michael Graznak Young Communicators Award. Jim helped found the National Country Market advertising cooperative and is vice president of that organization’s board of directors. From 1997 to 2000 he was editor of The Anvil's Ring, an international quarterly blacksmithing magazine. He is past president of the National Electric Cooperative Statewide Editor’s Association. Jim is married to Gretchen and has three children, James, Daniel and Emily. He lives in Taos, Mo., and is a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. He coaches basketball, cross country and track for St. Francis Xavier School. In his spare time he operates The Father Helias Forge where he does blacksmithing and woodworking.

President/CEO, The Ovid Bell Press, Inc.

John O. Bell is the third generation of this family-owned publications printing company in business since 1924. Born and raised in Fulton, Mo., John Bell began working in the plant as a teenager and joined the business in 1973. He became President in l989 and worked along side his father, Ovid Bell, until he died in l998. During that time the press made dramatic technological strides and now boasts a fully digital prepress, on-line soft proofing, in support of heat-set web presses.

John Fennell

Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism

John Fennell has served as editor of Milwaukee Magazine, an award-winning monthly city magazine. The publication won some 160 awards during his 13-plus years tenure, including a nomination for the National Magazine Awards and two for the Gerald Loeb Award for Business and Financial Journalism. Fennell has just completed a book about the life of Harry V. Quadracci, the late founder of Quad/Graphics, the third largest printer in North America. John is a former newspaper reporter who worked as assistant to the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Mike Royko. He was also editor of the international design journal, Step-By-Step Graphics.

Barbara Gibbs Ostmann

Barbara Gibbs Ostmann is an award-winning journalist with 30 years of writing and editing experience in newspapers, magazines, cookbooks and newsletters. She was food writer for the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group from 1993-2005 and food editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1975-1990. She came to the University of Missouri-Columbia as an assistant professor and the coordinator of the Agricultural Journalism program from 1991-1993. In 1997, she returned to MU to teach part-time in the School of Journalism and the Agricultural Journalism program.

Ostmann has co-edited 12 cookbooks and is co-author of The Recipe Writer's Handbook. She has copyedited or contributed to 17 other books. Ostmann has addressed conferences in New Zealand , Australia , England and numerous groups in the U.S. She is treasurer of The Culinary Trust, the philanthropic arm of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). She served on the IACP Board of Directors from 2001-2005. She is past president of the Association of Food Journalists and founding president of the St. Louis Culinary Society. She is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier and Midwest Travel Writers Association. She serves on the Missouri Wine and Grape Board. She received the Quest Award for distinguished lifetime achievement in communication from the National Federation of Press Women-Missouri Affiliate in 2000. She also received the first Columbia College Professional Achievement Award in 1988, and the first Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Fellowship in 1989. Ostmann has bachelor's and master's degrees from the Missouri School of Journalism.

Mike Gude

Director of Publishing, Food Business News

Mike Gude is a veteran publishing professional with expertise in the food industry. His current position at Sosland Publishing Co. is Director of Publishing of Food Business News, the bi-weekly news magazine of the food industry, the monthly magazine Baking & Snack as well as the annual Baking/Snack Directory & Buyer's Guide, and Associate Publisher of the baking industry's news journals Milling & Baking News, and the weekly “Orange Sheet."  Gude began his grain-based foods industry career 23 years ago with Sosland Publishing as Secretary of The China Encounter, a breakthrough grain-based foods trade mission to the Peoples Republic of China .

Gude is a member of the American Society of Baking, the American Association of Cereal Chemists and the Allied Trades of the Baking Industry. He serves on the allied boards of the Biscuit & Cracker Manufacturers' Association and the Grain Foods Foundation. He also is the current Chairman of the board of BEMA, the baking industry suppliers association and President of the Allied Trades of the Baking Industry.

He has a bachelor's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism, and he lives in Kansas City with his wife Becky and their three children, Claire, Robert and Ellen.

Sherry Osburn

Osburn Public Relations

Sherry Osburn is the owner of Osburn Public Relations, a consulting firm that specializes in healthcare writing and publications. Prior to starting her own firm, Sherry worked as a public relations specialist for Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Mo. In addition to serving on the MAP board, Sherry is the 2005 chairperson for the Kansas City Healthcare Communicators Society and is also a member of the Missouri Association of Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing. Sherry has a bachelor of journalism degree from the Missouri School of Journalism and has received more than 40 awards recognizing her work in healthcare marketing and public relations.

David Reed is the Group Editor at the Business Times Co., which publishes Columbia Business Times, Columbia Home & Lifestyle magazine, Jefferson City magazine and AsphaltPro. Reed is board member of Columbia Locally Owned Retail and Services (COLORS) and a member of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee. Previously, Reed was Senior News Editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and, before that, a correspondent for The Associated Press.

Jennifer Rowe

Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism

Since fall of 1998 Jennifer has taught six magazine classes in the Missouri School of Journalism including Magazine Editing, Magazine Design, Advanced Magazine Design, Magazine Staff, Intermediate Writing and Lifestyle Journalism. She is also editorial director of Vox, an award-winning weekly city magazine that appears in the Columbia Missourian newspaper and is distributed throughout Columbia. She worked as communications coordinator and editor for an association in St. Louis from 1989 to 1996. Jennifer also served as president of an association of editors during that time. She has a bachelor¹s and master¹s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. Having served as a contributing editor for Italian Cooking and Living magazine as well as the Magazine of Cucina Italiana for more than five years, Jennifer has had freelance articles in Elle, Real Simple, Westways and Missouri Life magazines, among others. A speaker at a variety of conferences and workshops across the country she has also presented at the FOLIO: show in both New York City and Chicago. In 2004 Jennifer was a recipient of the Provost¹s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award at the University of Missouri.

David Sutherland

Sutherland Printing

Dave has directed Sutherland Printing for 35 years and taken the company from a 14 employee operation to a 65 employee operation that is known nation wide. Sutherland Printing has specialized in magazine production for the past eight years. Dave has had the pleasure of serving on the Grinnell General Hospital Board of Directors for six years, the Montezuma Country Club Board for ten years, Montezuma Business Boosters and other various committees.

He and his wife Linda are parents to daughter Tara living in Cedar Falls Iowa. Tara and her husband work at John Deere and are parents to Dave and Linda’s granddaughter Ava. His son, Dave Jr., works at Sutherland Printing and is the fourth generation in the business. Dave Jr. is recently married to Alyssa. Dave and Linda have enjoyed watching their kids grow up, being heavily involved in their activities, including coaching softball, baseball, AAU basketball and racing moto cross on a national scale. In addition to their children, Dave and Linda enjoy their property at Lake of Ozarks, vacationing in the Caribbean, golf, reading, boating, scuba diving, racquetball and many other activities.