Fred Anklam

Written By Overby Center

Fred Anklam Jr. has been an assistant professor of professional practice at the University of Missouri School of Journalism since August 2021. He has 50 years of experience in print and digital newsrooms at the local, state and national level.

His work as a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., covering education contributed to that paper receiving the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He covered federal agencies and Congress for Gannett News Service and in 1986 became the first USA TODAY reporter assigned to cover the U.S. House of Representatives full time. He held several news editing roles at USA TODAY. He was a consultant with and then founding co-editor of Mississippi Today from 2015 until May 2018.

Anklam holds a B.A. from the University of Mississippi. He lives in Columbia, Mo. 

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