Emery Styron
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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

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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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  • Home
  • Contact
    • About
  • My Portfolio
    • Big River >
      • Muscatine, Iowa's China connection
      • Easy Float on the Yellow River
      • A Celebration of Being Totally in the Dark
      • Nahant Marsh
      • The Last Calliope Builder
    • Corridor Business Journal >
      • Court blocks sale of Gretter
      • Freshly-Baked Beds
      • Hills, Riverside position for growth
      • Horticultural Hit
      • How Washington got its groove back
      • Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity
      • Japan offers boost to corn, ethanol producers
      • KCTC takes fiber to Washington, Iowa
      • New WEDG Director David Colllins
      • Pipeline pain
      • Southern Exposure
      • VTI
      • Wash Co 'neighborhoods'
      • Washington County Realtors
      • Washington invests in elder care
      • Washington elder care
      • Year of the Pig: Good for Iowa?
    • Des Moines Register >
      • Cafe Dodici boosts downtown Washington turnaround
      • H.T. Lensgraf, the bone factory man
      • Search reveals woman behind letters
      • Small-town movie theatres enjoy encore
    • Los Angeles Times >
      • Piecing together Grant Wood puzzle
      • Show me a spectacular eclipse
    • Missouri Life >
      • Calliope builder keeps happy music flowing
      • Sam "Fits" Luney got around
    • The Iowan >
      • Drawing the line
      • Elevated Dreams
      • George Lindblade
      • First Star I See Tonight
      • Game On!
      • Grant Wood
      • Happy Trails
      • Harry Hopkins
      • Iowa Couture
      • Iowa's Mini-Melting Pot
      • Iowa's Other Hawks
      • Meskwaki Museum: Waiting for its moment
      • The Downtowners
    • The News, Kalona, Iowa >
      • Service is Schneider family tradition
    • The Rotarian
    • The Waterways Journal >
      • Julia Belle Swain
      • Dubuque museum: The Mississippi and beyond
      • George M. Verity
      • Buffalo Bill Museum
    • Press releases
    • Telling stories in pictures
    • Telling stories in video