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Steve Buttry, Dearly Departed Husband, Father and Grandfather. Former Director of Student Media, LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication
We’re really looking forward to having you all in Minnesota this weekend for Steve’s memorial service. Below are details for the weekend. Please e-mail Mike at mwesleybuttry@gmail.com if you have any questions. Friday There has been a CHANGE in Friday evening’s plans. We ended up having too many people for bowling at Pinstripes (a good […]
The LSU Manship School of Mass Communication will also be holding a memorial service in honor of Steve at 4:30 Monday, April 3 at the Holliday Forum in the LSU Journalism Building. Further details are in the link below. Buttry Memorial Service
We’d like to thank everyone again for the continuing love and support we’ve received since Steve’s passing. This post is to remind and provide some more details for Steve’s memorial service, which will take place at 4pm, Saturday April 8, at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN. Directions to the venue are also […]
The public memorial for Steve Buttry will take place on 4:00pm, Saturday, April 8th at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN. This will be a celebration of Steve’s life and we welcome everyone who wishes to attend. We are working to set up a block of rooms at the Embassy Suites hotel adjacent […]
Steve Buttry, a journalist for more than 45 years, died February 19 at age 62 of pancreatic cancer, his third major cancer. A memorial service will be held in coming weeks in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Details are pending and will be posted to this blog and other social media platforms. The family requests that memorial tributes are directed […]
I will be teaching a class today on updating ethical guidance for journalists. We’ll be discussing these ethics codes: Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics Poynter’s Guiding Principles for the Journalist Radio, Television Digital News Association Code of Ethics Online News Association’s Build Your Own Ethics Code project In addition, we’ll discuss these ethics […]
My Current story about journalism ethics in private behavior prompted a podcast on the topic by one of my former American University students. Here’s my “It’s All Journalism” podcast with Michael O’Connell: //player.blubrry.com?podcast_id=20124819
I’ve received some welcome attention from media lately, mostly because of my holiday letter, which acknowledged my terminal cancer. Daniel Finney, a longtime friend who’s a Des Moines Register columnist, wrote his Christmas Day column about Mimi and me, after interviewing us both. Another old friend, Paul Stevens, noted the Finney piece in his Connecting […]
2016 has been an outstanding year for Mimi and me. We’ve had our disappointments, and they may be our biggest news of the year. We’ll get to them in due time. But we regard this as an outstanding year for a whole lot of reasons. (We’re talking about the personal level here, setting aside the […]
Twenty-five years ago, I crowdsourced the Minot Daily News’ coverage of the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. I didn’t call it crowdsourcing. That word was not in the journalism vocabulary back then. Neither was “community engagement.” But I knew that the community had good stories to tell, so I invited readers to tell […]