George Anthan
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George Anthan is the former Washington Bureau Chief for the Des Moines Register
. He is the winner of several awards for outstanding journalism, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Raymond Clapper and National Press Club awards. Anthan also won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
in 2004 to research and write about the depopulation of the northern Great Plains. He is a member of the Gridiron Club. He spent his early career reporting in Valley Junction and Des Moines, IA, for the Des Moines Tribune. In 1971, he joined the Register's prestigious Washington, D.C. bureau. There he covered agriculture, food safety, and farm policy issues for 30 years.
Anthan, a Kansas native, is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism.
An avid bicyclist, Anthan rode his bike between his home in suburban Maryland and his office in the National Press Building for 30 years, logging over 100,000 miles in all. A close friend, Donald Kaul, lured Anthan back to Iowa each year beginning in 1974 to ride his bicycle across the state in RAGBRAI, now the world's largest bicycle ride, which Kaul and John Karras started in 1973.
Anthan states, "My credentials for covering agriculture were established in my first several weeks working for the Des Moines Register when I was assigned to cover the Iowa State Fair
. And immediately--which is a treasured assignment, since the book “State Fair” was written by a Des Moines Register reporter--and I immediately identified in the caption some purebred swine
as Hereford
s. It was the only time in my 40-some-year career at the Des Moines Register that I heard the words, “Stop the presses”."
George Anthan uses an IBM Selectric II typewriter. He is married to Ann Anthan, a Missouri native, lover of dogs, and road racing enthusiast.
Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States. A separate edition of the Register is sold throughout much of Iowa.-History:...
. He is the winner of several awards for outstanding journalism, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Raymond Clapper and National Press Club awards. Anthan also won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
in 2004 to research and write about the depopulation of the northern Great Plains. He is a member of the Gridiron Club. He spent his early career reporting in Valley Junction and Des Moines, IA, for the Des Moines Tribune. In 1971, he joined the Register's prestigious Washington, D.C. bureau. There he covered agriculture, food safety, and farm policy issues for 30 years.
Anthan, a Kansas native, is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism.
An avid bicyclist, Anthan rode his bike between his home in suburban Maryland and his office in the National Press Building for 30 years, logging over 100,000 miles in all. A close friend, Donald Kaul, lured Anthan back to Iowa each year beginning in 1974 to ride his bicycle across the state in RAGBRAI, now the world's largest bicycle ride, which Kaul and John Karras started in 1973.
Anthan states, "My credentials for covering agriculture were established in my first several weeks working for the Des Moines Register when I was assigned to cover the Iowa State Fair
Iowa State Fair
The Iowa State Fair is an annual state fair held in Des Moines, Iowa.The 2011 Iowa State Fair was held August 11–21 and marked 100 years of the butter cow sculpture.-History:...
. And immediately--which is a treasured assignment, since the book “State Fair” was written by a Des Moines Register reporter--and I immediately identified in the caption some purebred swine
Pig
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the Suidae family of even-toed ungulates. Pigs include the domestic pig, its ancestor the wild boar, and several other wild relatives...
as Hereford
Hereford
Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, southwest of Worcester, and northwest of Gloucester...
s. It was the only time in my 40-some-year career at the Des Moines Register that I heard the words, “Stop the presses”."
George Anthan uses an IBM Selectric II typewriter. He is married to Ann Anthan, a Missouri native, lover of dogs, and road racing enthusiast.
Writings by George Anton
- Farmers cannot afford to give up their day job.Manning, IowaManning is a city in Carroll County, Iowa, United States, along Iowa Highway 141. The population was 1,490 at the 2000 census. It is named for Orlando Harrison Manning, a Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.-History:...