MAP Board of Directors Danita Allen Editor-in-Chief, Co-Publisher, Missouri Life magazine: Danita Allen and her husband bought and revived Missouri Life in 1999. Since then, it has won three awards from the International and Regional Magazine Association for excellence in design and for reader service and historical stories. She served as the Meredith Chair for Service Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism for nearly 10 years, from 1995 to 2005. At Missouri, she taught advanced editing, publishing, writing or reporting classes, and she has lectured at Folio: and other magazine conferences around the country. Before teaching, she spent 15 years with Meredith Corporation, the publisher of and other magazines. While there, she was the founding editor of Country America , which reached a million paid circulation and was named by the industry as one of the Five Best Magazines of 1991 and to the "10 Hottest Magazines" list for three years. John O. Bell 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. | |
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