Dave Kansas
{{short description|American newspaper editor}}
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David Kansas (born March 28, 1967) was the president of American Public Media until a restructuring in March 2022.{{Cite web|title=Media Executive Dave Kansas to Leave APMG Amid a Restructuring|url=https://tcbmag.com/media-executive-dave-kansas-to-leave-apmg-amid-a-restructuring|access-date=2022-07-18|website=Twin Cities Business|date=March 7, 2022 |language=en-US}} He had also served as chief operating officer of American Public Media Group, a position he assumed in 2011.{{Cite web|title=David Kansas {{!}} President, APM & Executive Vice President, APM Group|url=https://www.mpr.org/about/people/dkansas|access-date=2020-06-09|website=Minnesota Public Radio|language=en-US}} He was formerly an editor with The Wall Street Journal and TheStreet.com.
Career
Prior to taking the COO role at American Public Media Group, Kansas was a journalist living in London and working for The Wall Street Journal. While working for The Wall Street Journal, Kansas has written about a number of topics such as European financial systems and the stock market.{{Cite web|title=Dave Kansas And 'The End Of Wall Street'|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100679363|access-date=2020-06-09|website=NPR.org|language=en}} He was the editor of The Wall Street Journal
Kansas is also former president of a personal finance online venture FiLife.com between Dow Jones and IAC/InterActiveCorp.{{Cite news|date=2008-06-11|title=FiLife venture opens personal finance site|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-filife-idUSN1037749420080611|access-date=2020-06-09}} Prior to that, he also served as editor-in-chief of TheStreet.com during its formative years, working for site founder Jim Cramer and served on the board of directors.{{Cite web|last=Kansas|first=Dave|title=The New TSC: Tour with Dave Kansas|url=https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/the-new-tsc-tour-with-dave-kansas-436402|access-date=2020-06-09|website=TheStreet|date=December 31, 1998 |language=en-us}}
In 2016, Kansas was named Director of Johnson Center for Journalism and Communication at Bethel University.{{Cite web|title=Public Radio's Dave Kansas Named Director of Johnson Center for Journalism and Communication |url=https://www.bethel.edu/news/articles/2016/october/dave-kansas|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.bethel.edu}}
Personal life
Kansas attended St. Paul Academy from kindergarten to grade 12. During his time there, he participated in football, basketball, and baseball. Every spring the school would have a musical, which he also participated in. He served as the treasurer of the Student Activities Committee and was also a member of the state tournament winning Quiz Bowl for both his junior and senior year. He spent a year at Macalester College and then obtained his undergraduate degree in 1990 from Columbia College of Columbia University.{{cite web |title=St. Paul Academy and Summit School: About SPA |url=http://www.spa.edu/about_spa/dave_kansas.aspx |publisher=SPA |accessdate=18 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026013043/http://www.spa.edu/about_spa/dave_kansas.aspx |archivedate=26 October 2012 }}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Taking Business News To TheStreet|url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/nov99/nov99_feature_thestreet.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915174205/http://www.college.columbia.edu:80/cct_archive/nov99/nov99_feature_thestreet.html |archive-date=2008-09-15 |access-date=June 8, 2020|website=Columbia College Today}}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071008193425/http://www.filife.com/ FiLife.com]
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Category:American newspaper editors
Category:The Wall Street Journal people
Category:20th-century American journalists
Category:American male journalists
Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:American Public Media
Category:Bethel University (Minnesota) faculty
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