
Alonzo Weston
Alonzo Weston joined the News-Press in 1989 as an intern. He currently covers education and mental health and... | St Joseph, Missouri, United States
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Alonzo Weston’s Expertise Alonzo Weston joined the News-Press in 1989 as an intern. He currently covers education and mental health and is also an award-winning columnist. The St. Joseph native is a 2002 graduate of the inaugural class of the Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He has been voted the city's favorite newspaper columnist for the past 13 years. He also has won numerous Missouri Press Association awards for his columns, features and investigative reporting. He's been published in magazines and has had byline stories in the Nashville Tennessean and the New York Daily News. Alonzo has served on the St. Joseph library board and is a research associate for the St. Joseph Museums Inc. He received the YWCA/NAACP Kelsey Beshears Racial Justice Award in 2005. The East Side Rotary Club also presented Alonzo with its Community Service Award in 2004. He received a Department of Mental Health Media Award in 2002 for a series of stories on local mental health issues. Alonzo is active in the community in a number of ways. He and former News-Press opinion editor Mark Sheehan started the Coleman Hawkins Jazz Festival 12 years ago to honor the jazz legend and St. Joseph native. The duo also created the Coleman Hawkins Mardi Gras Parade and blues festival and hosted an all-night youth basketball tournament to help raise funds for local community agencies. Alonzo also created a journalism workshop for minority youth called Reporting L.I.V.E.
Alonzo Weston’s Current Industry St Joseph News Press
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St Joseph News Press
Columnist/Reporter
Thu Jun 01 1989 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
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Laborer
Wed Mar 01 1989 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Thu Jun 01 2000 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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Reporter/columnist
Sun Jan 01 1989 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
St Joseph News Press
Reporter/columnist
Sun Jan 01 1989 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present