Mary Glick

Ms. Glick joined the executive staff at API in January of 2001. Previously, she was director of the journalism program at the State University of New York, College at Oswego. There, in 1998, she founded the Center for Community Journalism, an institute for continuing education of journalists working in weeklies and small dailies. She began teaching journalism in 1991 at California State University, Long Beach, where she was advisor to a daily student newspaper and quarterly student magazine, in addition to teaching a variety of writing and editing courses. In 1994, the California Newspaper Publishers Association named her Outstanding Journalism Educator. For nine years, Ms. Glick held editorial positions for several daily newspapers in Southern California, including posts as features editor for the Star-News in Pasadena, lifestyles editor for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers in Torrance and Santa Monica, and copy editor for the Daily Report in Ontario. Prior to her newspaper work, she had a career in public relations as director of communications for Disneyland Hotel, and later as a partner in RML Associates, a public relations agency. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from SUNY Oswego and a master's in communications from California State University, Fullerton. Ms. Glick has attended three API seminars: Journalism Educators (1998), Executive Development Program (2001), and Newsroom Reporting and Editing Standards (2003).