I will be taking a bit of a vacation next week from being the editor of The Ledger. I will off starting the last week of May and be back by June 4.
This won’t be a lounging vacation, though, as I will be in Greensburg, Kan., working with student journalists from Wichita State University.
As a group, we will be telling the story of how Greensburg is continuing to recover following the E-F5 tornado that decimated the community.
We will be writing stories, shooting pictures and video and recording audio pieces about the town. At the end, a glossy magazine will be produced to help share the work we’ve done.
Todd R. Vogts, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of media at Sterling College in Kansas. Previously, he taught yearbook, newspaper, newsmagazine, and online journalism in various Kansas high schools, and he ran a weekly newspaper in rural Kansas. He continues to freelance as a professional journalist from time to time. Also, Vogts is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the Journalism Education Association (JEA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), among others. He earned his Master Journalism Educator (MJE) certification from JEA in 2022. When he’s not teaching or writing, he runs his mobile disk jockey service and takes part in other entrepreneurial ventures. He can be reached at twitter.com/toddvogts or via his website at www.toddvogts.com.
