Jack Dimond

Jack Dimond has served as adviser to the Standard, Missouri State University’s student-run newspaper, since August 2005. He also teaches in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film. He worked for five years as a reporter, copy editor and page designer for The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kan., a 10,000-circulation daily newspaper. His beats included local business, city government in both Pittsburg and Frontenac, Kan., and Frontenac schools. While earning a master's degree at Pittsburg State University, he served as assistant adviser to the student-run newspaper, the Collegio, which won the 2004 All-Kansas Award from the Kansas Associated Collegiate Press. He also served as managing editor for the 2005 edition of the Kanza, PSU's yearbook. As an undergraduate at PSU, Dimond worked on the staff of the Collegio for three years, serving as editor in chief in 1999-2000.