{"id":2920,"date":"2016-05-24T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2016-05-24T21:45:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T21:45:12","slug":"diana-mitsu-klos-to-step-down-as-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/diana-mitsu-klos-to-step-down-as-executive-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Mitsu Klos to step down as executive director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Diana Mitsu Klos will step down as director of the National Scholastic Press Association\/Associated Collegiate Press effective June 15th, 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">NSPA\u2019s board president, Dr. Albert Tims, said, \u201cIt has been a privilege to work with Diana. Her admirable professionalism, integrity and commitment to NSPA\u2019s mission are hallmarks of her leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMy successor will take over a dynamic association that has made significant progress in serving the high school and college journalism communities,\u201d Klos said. \u201cI have loved my time with NSPA\/ACP and everyone associated with it. However, this leadership position requires someone who can commit to living in the Twin Cities region full time, which unfortunately I cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">NSPA\u2019s Board of Directors will invite associate director Laura Widmer to serve as interim executive director and will launch an immediate national search for a new executive director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">NSPA and its divisions cooperate with student media associations and non-student groups and businesses that share its mission to educate and recognize the work of student journalists, to improve the quality of student media and to foster careers in media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Posted May 24, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Mitsu Klos will step down as director of the National Scholastic Press Association\/Associated Collegiate Press effective June 15th, 2016. NSPA\u2019s board president, Dr. Albert Tims, said, \u201cIt has been a privilege to work with Diana. Her admirable professionalism, integrity and commitment to NSPA\u2019s mission are hallmarks of her leadership.\u201d \u201cMy successor will take over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}