Stewart, Mizell
Posted 10/21/2010 4:13:00 PM

Mizell Stewart III, editor of the Evansville (Ill.) Courier & Press, is a veteran journalist who has coordinated coverage of such high-profile news events as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the deadlocked 2000 presidential election.

Before joining the Courier & Press, Stewart was managing editor of the Akron Beacon Journal and a consultant for the former Knight Ridder newspapers. While in the consulting role, Stewart helped lead a team of Knight Ridder journalists who covered Hurricane Katrina at the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. The newspaper's coverage won the 2006 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service.

Stewart also is the former editor and vice president of the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. In Tallahassee, Stewart was part of an operating team that successfully turned around a 15-year trend of declining circulation. He also directed several award-winning reporting efforts, including the newspaper's coverage of the 2000 election and an in-depth examination of Florida's foster care system.

Originally from Cleveland, Stewart began his newspaper career as a 16-year-old summer photography intern with Sun Newspapers. He has lectured at The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and in the Department of Journalism at Bowling Green State University.

He has given presentations on leadership, management, reporting and diversity for the American Press Institute, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the National Writers Workshops, Investigative Reporters & Editors, the National Association of Black Journalists and the World Journalism Institute.

Stewart serves on the board of the Mid-America Press Institute, the Board of Student Publications at Bowling Green State University and chairs the Journalism Alumni Advisory Board at Bowling Green State University.