Tom Warhover
Executive Editor for Innovation
Columbia Missourian
Project Leader
Remaking Newsrooms
309 Lee Hills Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200
Phone: 573-882-5734
E-mail: warhovert@missouri.edu
Tom Warhover is an associate professor and chair of the newspaper faculty at the Missouri School of Journalism. He also is the executive editor for innovation at the Columbia Missourian, a community newspaper edited by professionals and staffed by student reporters, copy editors, designers and photographers.
His work, in conjunction with the Reynolds Journalism Institute, is to transform the Missourian newsroom for the future, experimenting with new approaches and technologies in content and delivery while honoring the best traditions of public service, integrity and independence. He also has worked on RJI projects involving Community Knowledge Base mapping program and Mizznet, a plan to use best-of-breed technology at the local level.
Prior to joining the university, he worked for The Virginian-Pilot, a 200,000 circulation daily newspaper serving southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. At The Pilot, he was a copy editor, designer, wire editor and metro editor. He covered city hall as a beat reporter. As an assigning editor in charge of the "public life team," he helped the paper create principles and daily practices for the then-fledgling concept of public (or civic) journalism. He helped guide the long-term strategies of the newsroom as deputy managing editor and the fiscal fortunes of part of the newspaper as the North Carolina general manager.
Warhover graduated from the University of Missouri in 1985 with bachelor's degrees in journalism and sociology.