Buttry, Steve
Posted 8/13/2009 11:31:00 AM

Steve Buttry joined The Gazette and GazetteOnline in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as Editor in 2008. In his first week on the job, he directed coverage of a flood that was the biggest natural disaster in Iowa history. He is now the “C3” Innovation Coach, guiding Gazette Communications in pursuit of the Complete Community Connection, Buttry’s vision for a new business model, published on his blog in April 2009. Before joining The Gazette, he spent three years with the American Press Institute, focusing mostly on teaching and research in the Newspaper Next innovation project. He remains affiliated with API, conducting the Upholding and Updating Ethical Standards seminar series. He began his journalism career as a senior in high school, covering sports for The Evening Sentinel in Shenandoah, Iowa. He has been a reporter, editor and writing coach for the Des Moines Register, Kansas City Star and Times, Minot Daily News and Omaha World-Herald. Buttry has pursued his journalism career in newsrooms, news stories and events in 43 states, eight Canadian provinces, Ecuador, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.