Last Updated: September 30, 1997
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Tim J. McGuire, editor/senior
vice president of new media of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis, has been
elected treasurer-designate of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
He will become treasurer of the 875-member group in April and will rise
through the officer ranks to head ASNE beginning in April 2001.
The Minneapolis editor has been a member of ASNE since 1980 and has
chaired a number of ASNE’s key committees: 1996-97 Convention Program;
1994-95 Change; 1993-94 Issues; and 1992-93 Press, Bar and Public Affairs.
He has had an active role on the Society’s Freedom of Information; Future
of Newspapers; Membership; and New Directions Committees. He also has served
on ASNE’s Writing Awards Board. He was elected to the ASNE board in 1992.
McGuire became editor of the Star Tribune in 1992. He worked in
various managing editor positions in Minneapolis since 1979. Previously,
he was managing editor for The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.; Corpus Christi (Texas)
Caller, and the Ypsilanti (Mich.) Press.
McGuire has a B.A. degree from Aquinas College, in Grand Rapids,
Mich. He has a law degree from the William Mitchell College of Law and
is a member of the Minnesota bar.
He serves as a lay preacher at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and is active
with the Minnesota Downs Syndrome Association. He is married to Jean Fannin
McGuire, and they have three children.
Founded in 1922, ASNE is an organization of the main editors of daily
newspapers in the United States and Canada.
