Last Updated: May 26, 1999
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ASNE on the move
Star Tribune’s McGuire named to ASNE ladder
Tim J. McGuire, editor/senior vice president of new media of the Star
Tribune, Minneapolis, has been elected ASNE treasurer-designate. He will
become treasurer of the 840-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 bachelor’s degree from Aquinas College, in Grand Rapids,
Mich., and 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.
