Staff
Dennis Anderson (Managing editor)
Dennis Anderson joined the Lawrence Journal-World as managing editor in April 2005. He previously worked for 10 years at Gannett Co. Inc. newspapers, including serving as managing editor of the Norwich Bulletin in Connecticut from 1999-2005 and as metro editor of the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin in New York from 1996-1999.
Anderson, 47, has spent most of his career as an editor. He was managing editor for two of the Pioneer Press chain of suburban Chicago newspapers before joining Paddock Publication's Daily Herald in Arlington Heights, Ill., in 1990, where he was a bureau chief.
He has received several Associated Press and Gannett awards for news coverage, and he was recognized as one of Gannett's top 10 supervisors in 2000. He won the Kansas Press Association's award for best column writing in 2006.
Anderson has participated in a number of journalism training seminars including American Press Institute workshops for city editors and for managing editors. He graduated from Columbia College in Chicago.
He is a member of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Lawrence class of 2006. He coaches youth baseball and is a Big Brother. Anderson, his wife, Julie, and their sons, Eric and Thomas, and dachshunds, Lorenzo and Francesca, live in Lawrence.
You can follow him on Twitter.
Recent stories
- Newspaper wins 33 Awards of Excellence
- March 10, 2009
- The Lawrence Journal-World won 33 Awards of Excellence for 2009, the Kansas Press Association announced Monday. Eleven of the awards were for first place.
- J-W collects most awards in newspaper contest
- January 31, 2009
- The Lawrence Journal-World on Friday won 14 Suburban Newspapers of America Awards for 2008, the most in the country for the fourth consecutive year. The Journal-World won seven first-place, four second-place and three third-place awards, and two honorable mentions.
- I don’t pretend to understand teen dating today
- January 26, 2009
- When our 16-year-old son, Eric, and his friends go out on a Saturday night, they’re often a mixed group of “guys” — their universal term for both boys and girls. No one in the group claims to be a “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” (terms my wife Julie and I use), they’re “just friends” (Eric’s term).
- Letter generators: Lawrence students write in about topical issues
- January 20, 2009
- What do Lawrence seventh-graders care about? Quite a bit, judging by 100 letters to the editor written by Southwest Junior High School students.
- Journal-World readers, get ready to Go!
- October 12, 2008
- On Monday morning, you will find your Journal-World wrapped inside a new section, Go! Go! is a weekly lifestyle magazine designed to help you sift through the clutter of our fast-paced world. Go! is produced by the Journal-World staff and contributors.
- World Company book recounts dream season
- April 23, 2008
- You experienced the championship; now you can read the book.
- National pastime
- The art of baseball
- March 30, 2008
- There is a grace to the game of baseball. Its leisurely pace is interrupted by bursts of speed and strength, not unlike ballet. Perhaps that’s why artists often gravitate to it in word, music and film.
- Journal-World sweeps SNA Awards for ‘07
- January 26, 2008
- The Lawrence Journal-World on Friday won 23 Suburban Newspapers of America Awards for 2007, the most in the country for the third consecutive year.
- Environmentalists hope to boost freshwater mussel populations
- November 5, 2007
- The dense forest that buffers the Verdigris River from barren bean and corn fields tells the story of last May’s devastating flood in southeast Kansas. The flood destroyed the crops, and their remnants hang lifeless from the trees some 30 feet up a steep hill from the river. That’s how far the river rose. New crops will have to wait another year, but already the Verdigris is on the mend, with help from the freshwater mussels that for centuries have worked to keep the water clean and provide food for the river’s fish and other wildlife.
- Uncle Ike
- Fictional ‘First Wave’ weaves its story with that of one of Kansas’ most beloved figures
- September 24, 2007
- Dwight D. Eisenhower is best known as Gen. Eisenhower, leader of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, or as President Eisenhower, leader of the free world at the height of the Cold War.
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