Yes, Iowa, There Is a Future for Newspapers

Rick Green was named president and publisher of the Des Moines Register in 2013 after serving previously as the paper's vice president and editor. A twenty-five year veteran of the Gannett Company, he is also the Regional President for Des Moines, Sioux Falls, St. Cloud and Iowa City. Green came to Des Moines from the Palm Springs (CA) Desert Sun, where he was executive editor and managing editor before that. He studied journalism at Ohio University and worked for several Ohio newspapers, including the Cincinnati Enquirer early in his career. Chamberlin Lecture in Journalism