BOARD MEMBERS
President: Tyler Buchanan
Tyler Buchanan, 2013, spent three years at The BG News as a special sections editor, reporter and columnist. Tyler spent six years reporting and editing the The Athens Messenger and Vinton-Jackson Courier newspapers in Southeast Ohio before joining...
Vice President: Jared Wadley
Jared Wadley, 1989, is a lead public relations representative at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Jared was a reporter, copy editor, and editorial page editor at The BG News. He also served as editor of The Obsidian. He joined the Michigan...
Secretary: Mary Beth Eastman
Mary Beth (Murtha) Eastman, 2001, spent more than 15 years as an editor and designer for local and regional newspapers in Maryland, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. In 2017, she switched to content marketing, offering writing and editing services to major...
Treasurer: Karl Smith
Karl Smith, 1987, serves as manager of Falcon Media, the umbrella organization for all student media at BGSU (including The BG News), as well as teaching as an adjunct professor for journalism courses. An award-winning newspaper writer, editor,...
Michael McIntyre
Michael McIntyre, 1987, finished his BG News career as the paper’s editor. He spent 30 years at The Plain Dealer, much of it writing the popular “Tipoff” column in the newspaper and at cleveland.com. After leaving the P-D in March 2020, Mike was...
Elizabeth McIntyre
Elizabeth McIntyre, 1989, was news editor of The BG News. She has been publisher and editor of Crain’s Cleveland Business since 2016, after a two-year stay as the publication’s editor. Elizabeth spent two decades of her career at The Plain...
Don Lee
Don Lee, 1987, was a reporter covering several beats, editorial page editor and editorial cartoonist during his time with The BG News. He spent 25 years as a reporter, editorial page editor, copy editor/page designer — and editorial cartoonist — at...
Bob Bortel
Bob Bortel, BS 1977 and MBA 1983, retired in November 2020 after nearly 40 years as director of student media at BGSU. While a student at The BG News, Bob was a page designer, reporter, production manager and 1976 summer editor. As director of...
Bill Estep
Bill Estep, 1977, is the retired former owner of Estep Media Solutions, a Columbus, Ohio-based web design, SEO and advertising firm. Bill was sports editor and executive sports editor of The BG News before embarking on a 10-year reporting career at...
Harold Brown
Harold Brown, 1972, is a retired city editor of the Bowling Green (Ohio) Sentinel-Tribune. Harold worked at The BG News from second quarter 1969 to graduation as a reporter, issue editor, sports editor, assistant manager editor, and 1971 summer...
Brandi Barhite
Brandi Barhite, BA 2001 and MA 2011, is director of enrollment communications at BGSU. Brandi spent four years at The BG News, including as editor in 2000 and editor of Miscellany magazine in 2001. She previously was assistant director of...
Max Filby
Max Filby, class of 2013, is a reporter at the Columbus Dispatch. Max was editor-in-chief of The BG News in 2012-13, as well as news editor in 2011-12 and the 2012 summer editor. He also spent time as a reporter and assistant web editor. He covers...
Alissa Widman Neese
Alissa Widman Neese, 2012, has authored Axios' Columbus newsletter since 2021. Previously, she covered K-12 education at the Columbus Dispatch (2016-2021) and her hometown newspaper, the Sandusky (Ohio) Register (2013-2016). Alissa worked in...
We’re always looking for volunteers to assist the BG News Alumni Society at the annual Homecoming Tent Party, and serve as student mentors to BG News staff. And we’re always hunting for new BGNAS board members. You’ll be helping your former campus newspaper where you learned how to write and it will give you a great reason to return to campus.
Contact: Tyler Buchanan, BGNAS president, at tylerjoelb@gmail.com