Fritz Wirt
General Manager
106 Paul Miller
Phone : (405) 744-8372
Fax : (405) 744-7936

Professional positions held, in reverse chronological order:

• General manager of The Daily OCollegian and Redskin yearbook, www.ocolly.com, and assistant professor School of Journalism and Broadcasting at Oklahoma State University. Tenure status relinquished in 1995 for Administrative and Professional classification. (1989 to present) Yearbook suspended publication after 1991.
• Assistant professor and assistant editor, Agricultural Information, OSU. (1988-89)
• Editorial consultant, editor in north Dallas (Texas) for a nine-newspaper group then owned by Harte-Hanks Communications. (1986-88)
• President and publisher of The Huntsville (Texas) Item, a daily newspaper then owned by Harte-Hanks Communications. (1983-86)
• President and publisher of the Del Rio (Texas) News-Herald, a daily newspaper then owned by Harte-Hanks Communications. (1980-83)
• Executive editor San Angelo (Texas) Standard (morning publication) and Times (evening publication), both daily newspapers then owned by Harte-Hanks Communications. (1979-80)
• Managing editor of The El Paso (Texas) Times, a daily newspaper owned by Gannett. (1971-79)
• Managing Editor Temple (Texas) Daily Telegram, a daily newspaper owned by Frank Mayborn Enterprises. (1969-71)
• Night editor Kingsport (Tennessee) Times-News, a daily newspaper owned by Sandusky Newspapers. (1964-69)
• Reporter, photographer, sports editor, then managing editor Clinton (Oklahoma) Daily News, a daily newspaper then owned by Charles Engleman. (1958-64)
• Circulation district manager Daily Oklahoman and Times, then morning and evening newspapers in Oklahoma City. (1958-59)
• Active duty and six years in National Guard/U.S. Army Reserve. (1957-63)

Education

• Graduated Midwest City (Oklahoma) High School.
• Attended Okmulgee (Oklahoma) Tech three semesters, printing major.
• Attended Oklahoma State University three years, journalism major.
• Graduated Oklahoma City University (BA), journalism.
• Attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
• Attended East Tennessee State University.
• Graduated University of Texas El Paso (MA), professional writing.

College Level Teaching (All Part-Time)

• Freshman English, El Paso (Texas) Community College.
• Student Publications, El Paso (Texas) Community College.
• Reporting, El Paso (Texas) Community College.
• Student Newspaper Adviser, The Conquistador, El Paso (Texas) Community College.
• Introduction to Mass Communications, East Tennessee State University.
• News Editing, East Tennessee State University.
• Feature Writing, East Tennessee State University.
• Current Events, University of Texas at El Paso.
• Journalistic Management, Oklahoma State University.
• News Editing II, Oklahoma State University.
• News Editing I, Oklahoma State University.
• Principles of Advertising, Oklahoma State University.

At Oklahoma State University (A Sampling)

• Completed faculty tenure track requirements in School of Journalism and Broadcasting (SJB).
• Completed OSU’s Quality University Instruction: A Teaching Effectiveness Training Program.
• While on faculty, eventually served as chair of each SJB standing committee except personnel.
• Member of campus-wide Web Technology committee appointed by the president.
• Board of directors, the O’Collegian Publishing Company.
• Adviser to Agriculture Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT) student organization in College of Agriculture.
• Adviser to OSU student chapter of Society of Professional Journalists.

Some Professional Memberships (Now or Then)

• Associated Press Managing Editors
• College Media Advisers
• Oklahoma Press Association
• American Society of Newspaper Editors
• Society of Professional Journalists
• Texas Daily Newspaper Association
• Texas Press Association
• North and East Texas Press Association
• Freedom of Information Act organization
• National Newspaper Association
• Newspaper Association of America
• National Newspaper Association New Media Federation
• College Newspaper Business & Advertising Managers
• Society of Newspaper Design
• Collegiate Press Association

Some Other Stuff

• Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame
• Wall of Fame, Midwest City High School (Oklahoma)
• President Rio Bajo Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists (El Paso and Southern New Mexico).
• President Texas Associated Press Managing Editors.
• A Texas Election Commission director.
• Vice chairman of national Associated Press Managing Editors ethics committee.
• Harte-Hanks Communications Editorial Advisory Board (director).
• Over time, have participated in American Press Institute, Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, American Management, Roundtable Conference, Gannett, Harte-Hanks Communications, and several state press association programs, including a significant number of other such workshops, seminars and gatherings focusing on newspaper issues. My participation has ranged from attendee to discussion leader to guest speaker to program organizer.
• Civic activities include, but not limited to, serving in board-level positions in a few chambers of commerce, United Way drives, Rotary Club, Lions Club, Optimist Club, Fine Arts Council, Boys’ Club, Industrial Development associations, sports booster clubs, etc.
• Newspaper judging activities include entries in various categories sponsored by state newspaper associations and university student newspaper organizations. Also have been called upon to judge one local beauty pageant, a few chili cook-offs, a beer-drinking contest, a student variety show, a third-grade no smoking poster competition and an armadillo race during a Concho Days celebration in Texas.

Positive Vignettes? Ask Me About:
Tom Wolfe
Al Neuharth
Mike Cochran
Bill Roesgen
Tucker Sutherland
Paul Miller
Jack Spence
Oscar and Joe
San Miguel
Charles Engleman
Dr. Al Harris
Lamar Gregory
John T. Williams
Dean Singleton
Frank Mayborn
Frank Feuelle
Ernest Istook
E. K. Gaylord
Kathryn Hornsby
Terry Scott Bertling
Carlita Costello
Larry Price
Ed Foster
Jim Batts
Marlan Nelson
Wayne Epperson
Lynn Dickerson
Steve Sullivan
Tom Lindley
Bill Latham
Phil Schoch
John Quinn
Jack Lancaster
Wilma Wirt
John Lumpkin
Arlena McLaughlin
Fred Van Der Meulen
Marise McDermott
Carol Shuman
Mike Sowell
Mike Connelly
Larry Sanders
Luis Villalobos
Barbara Funkhouser
Jason Collington
Helen Cochran
J. Tom Graham
Harry Heath
Lori Twomey
Rocky Salim
Jenk Jones, Jr.