Meet the Writer
Emery Styron is a retired, but not tired, community newspaper editor and publisher enjoying a second career as a freelance writer. He owned and managed community newspapers and other businesses in Missouri and Iowa and has been writing full-time since 2014.
EMERY STYRON
A native of Vinita, Oklahoma, Emery grew up in Granby, Missouri, where he graduated from East Newton High School. He earned an Associate of Arts in Business Administration degree from Crowder College, Neosho, Missouri, and a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He also holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa.
He began his newspaper career as a reporter with the Louisiana (Missouri) Press-Journal, was editor and advertising manager of the Wentzville (Missouri) Union, then returned to Granby, where he operated the Newton County News for 12 years. He served as managing editor of the Cass County Democrat-Missourian in Harrisonville for five and one-half years and as editor and publisher of the Mt. Pleasant News, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, for 11 years.
Emery returned to Missouri in 2006 to own and operate River Hills Traveler, an outdoors monthly, for eight years. On sale of that publication, he returned to Iowa full-time, where he writes for the Corridor Business Journal, The Iowan magazine, Big River magazine, The Waterways Journal and other publications.
He lives in Riverside, Iowa, with his wife, Virginia. They have two children and five grandchildren.
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He began his newspaper career as a reporter with the Louisiana (Missouri) Press-Journal, was editor and advertising manager of the Wentzville (Missouri) Union, then returned to Granby, where he operated the Newton County News for 12 years. He served as managing editor of the Cass County Democrat-Missourian in Harrisonville for five and one-half years and as editor and publisher of the Mt. Pleasant News, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, for 11 years.
Emery returned to Missouri in 2006 to own and operate River Hills Traveler, an outdoors monthly, for eight years. On sale of that publication, he returned to Iowa full-time, where he writes for the Corridor Business Journal, The Iowan magazine, Big River magazine, The Waterways Journal and other publications.
He lives in Riverside, Iowa, with his wife, Virginia. They have two children and five grandchildren.
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