Kansas Press Association

Executive Director

danstaett [at] kspress [dot] com (Email)

Doug Anstaett, KPA’s executive director, is a native Kansan. He graduated from Kansas State University in 1973 with a B.S. degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.

During his journalism career of almost four decades, he has been a reporter, editor and publisher in four states: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota. He was editor and publisher of the Brookings Register (S.D.) from 1982 to 1987 and then at the Newton Kansan from 1987 to 2003.

He became executive director of the Kansas Press Association on Jan. 1, 2004. He was president of the KPA board in 2000-01 while at the Newton Kansan.

He won first place in the coveted Inland Newspaper Association-sponsored William Allen White Editorial Excellence Contest four times between 1987 and 2002 (including the overall sweepstakes award in 1992). He has always believed that newspapers have a responsibility to their communities to provide comprehensive news coverage, editorial page leadership and a vision for the community to grow and prosper.

He was a member of the 1988 Leadership Kansas class and traveled to Haiti on a two-week church mission trip in 1990. While at K-State, he was a member of the KSU Marching Band for two years. He has been a member of the K-State Alumni Association Board of Directors and the KSU Foundation Board of Trustees. He is past president of the KSU Journalism Advisory Committee. He is the current president of the Newspaper Association Managers, an organization of press association managers representing newspapers in the United States and Canada.

He and his wife, Lucinda, established an endowed scholarship fund through the Kansas Newspaper Foundation that awarded its initial annual $1,000 scholarship to a student at K-State in April 2011.

They have two married daughters, Beth (Russ) Iversen and Ashley (Matt) All, and five grandchildren ... Thomas, Helena and Penelope All and Olivia and Sebastian Iversen. He enjoys writing, reading, playing golf and spending time with his grandchildren.