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Collection: FND005 - SHSND Foundation - Newspaper Hall of Fame
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 00031
Title: Mike Jacobs
Date: 2016
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Summary: Mike Jacobs retired as publisher of the Grand Forks Herald in April 2014. He served as editor for 28 years beginning in 1984, and was editor and publisher for eight years beginning in 2004. He also served as founding director of Forum News Service. Earlier he worked as managing editor, city editor, editorial writer and statehouse reporter. During his tenure as editor, the Herald won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (after the 1997 Red River Flood), was named one of America's best small newspapers by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (in 1989) and won the General Excellence Award from the North Dakota Newspaper Association 16 times. In 1998, Jacobs was named editor of the year by the National Press Foundation and won the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing. Jacobs is a former member of the board of directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and served as president of the North Dakota Newspaper Association in 2002. He also served two terms on the board of the NDNA Education Foundation and has been a member of the advisory committee of UND's Native Media Center. He's served on a number of non-profit boards, incuding United Way of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks and Area and the International Peace Garden. He is a Rotarian and served as Rotary's assistant district governor helping clubs in the northern Red River. Jacobs was born at Stanley, N.D., in 1947. He graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1970. He also attended Seattle University. He's worked at newspapers in St. Louis, Mo., and Fargo, Dickinson and Mandan, N.D., and he's been a farm laborer, a farm organization official, a government office functionary, a bartender and an environmental activist. In that role, he published "One Time Harvest," a booklength critique of rapid coal development on the Great Plains in 1975. In 2014, he published an e-book, "A Birthday Inquiry: North Dakota at 125," and he served as NDNA's ambassador to high schools. He and his wife, Suezette Bieri, live on 60 acres seven miles west of Gilby, N.D., where they keep four cats and four tractors. They also own ranchland in Mountrail County, N.D. In his spare time, he walks, cooks, reads, gardens, watches birds and attends hockey games.
Red ID: FND_I_77471 Image ID: 509290 Image Notes: 10950 00005 00031

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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