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Collection: FND005 - SHSND Foundation - Newspaper Hall of Fame
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 00003
Title: Roger Bailey
Date: 2014
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Summary: Roger Bailey, a 50-year veteran of the news and newspaper industry, began his association with newspapers by delivering the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune which on some Sundays weighed almost as much as he did - or so it seemed. Bailey was born with a love of the printed word in his blood, growing up as the son of Morris Fletcher Bailey and Mamie Irene Bailey, farmers and teachers who became publishers of a small weekly letterpress newspaper in Bertha, Minn. There, he learned to operate the presses and Linotype. After high school, Bailey attended Moorhead (Minnesota) State College, where he was a reporter and eventually editor and later student advisor of the weekly student newspaper, the Moorhead State MiSTiC. After college, Bailey began working as a commercial writer at KTHI-TV in Fargo. He moved into the news department and later became the station's operations manager for five years. In 1973 Bailey became publisher and editor of the Turtle Mountain Star, at Rolla, as a result of the help of the Star's owners, North Dakota weekly newspaper publishers Steve Farrington, and the late Frank Hornstein, Frank Sczcys and Pete Denison, who had inherited the Star following the untimely death of its publisher, the Les Dewing. Under his leadership the Star became the largest circulation weekly newspaper in North Dakota with over 4,200 copies printed each week. The Star was a perennial winner in the North Dakota Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest, including a long run as winner of the coveted General Excellence category. In 1997, the last year Bailey published the Star, the newspaper was named the best weekly newspaper in the Under 5,000 circulation category in the nation in the National Newspaper Association's "Best of the States" competition. Bailey has been active in many community organizations over the years including Kiwanis International, Lions International, Boys Scouts of America, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations and churches in the communities in which he lived. He was elected president of NDNA in 1982 and has served on various committees of NDNA and the National Newspaper Association. He was a charter member of the Vision 2000 Committee, an organization of state business and educational leaders formed in the 1980s to promote a new awareness of economic development in North Dakota. In 2000 he became executive director of the North Dakota Newspaper Association, leading an organization representing 90 newspaper members. He held that position until his retirement at the end of May 2013. He and Ingrid, his best friend and wife have been inseparable for nearly half a century. They are parents of Lisa, who is married to John Bailey, and grandparents to Brett and Elise Bailey.
Red ID: FND_I_77443 Image ID: 509262 Image Notes: 10950 00005 00003

Collection: FND005 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - Newspaper Hall of Fame
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Summary: The Hall of Honors features the biographies of recognized leaders in North Dakota's newspaper industry. This resource is sponsored by the North Dakota Newspaper Association and the NDNA Education Foundation.

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