KPA Board of Directors

  • Tim Stauffer

    President

    Tim Stauffer is the managing editor of The Iola Register. He is the fifth generation in his family to work for the daily newspaper, located in southeast Kansas. Before working for The Register, Tim taught English at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas. He earned his master’s degree in...

  • Jeff Cott

    First Vice President

    Jeff Cott is publisher of the Derby Weekly Informer, a second generation Kansas newspaper publisher. He has served as treasurer after serving several years as legislative director. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was involved with and grew up in a family operation of five weekly newspapers that were...

  • David Allen Seaton

    Past President

    David Allen Seaton is president of Winfield Publishing Co., Inc., and publisher of The Cowley CourierTraveler and Newkirk (Okla.) Herald Journal. The company is part of the Seaton publishing group that includes eight newspapers in the central United States.

  • Jennifer McDaniel

    Northeast District Director

    Jennifer McDaniel is managing editor of the Ottawa Herald, a weekly newspaper in Franklin County, and the Gardner News, another weekly covering southern Johnson County. A Coffeyville native, Jennifer earned a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism at Kansas...

  • Nickole Byers

    Northwest District Director

    Nickole Byers has been with Main Street Media, a company of 34 weekly newspapers spread throughout in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, since July 2003. She started in the Ellis Review newspaper office as a typesetter and is currently the editor at the Ellis Review and the Western Kansas World in...

  • Dale Hogg

    Southwest District Director

    For the past 20 years, Dale Hogg has served as the managing editor of the Great Bend Tribune. Born and raised in Ellinwood, Kan., he is a proud 1982 graduate of Ellinwood High School. He earned his bachelor’s degree in communications from Fort Hays State University in 1986. When he arrived at...

  • Chad Lawhorn

    Second Vice President/Treasurer

    Chad Lawhorn, editor and publisher of the Lawrence Journal-World, is the seond vice president and treasurer for the Kansas Press Association Board of Directors. Lawhorn has been with the Journal-World since 2001. He has served as a reporter, managing editor and editor during his time at the...

  • Adam Strunk

    Legislative Director

    Adam Strunk is a partner and director of editorial content with Kansas Publishing Ventures and serves on the board as legislative director for the Kansas Press Association. He has also served as the managing editor of Harvey County Now, since its founding in 2015. He graduated with a journalism...

  • Jay Senter

    Presidential Appointment

    Jay Senter is the founder and publisher of the Shawnee Mission Post and the Blue Valley Post, which have been recognized by Harvard's Nieman Lab and NPR's Morning Edition as a model for a sustainable community news operation.