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Jack Marsh
Jack Marsh has never forgotten one of the first notes he received when he joined the Argus Leader as executive editor in 1992.
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Legendary former Gannett CEO Al Neuharth wrote to welcome him “to the sacred soil of South Dakota” and hoped they would keep in touch. It was a turning point in what would become a long and prosperous partnership between the two.
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Marsh began his journalism career in high school as a teen correspondent for his hometown newspaper in Niagara Falls, New York. While attending college at Baldwin Wallace University, Marsh majored in political science and became the editor of the college’s newspaper, The Exponent, by the end of his freshman year.
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He spent 27 years working for various Gannett newspapers before switching to new roles affiliated with Neuharth. Between 1998 and 2014, Marsh served as president and COO of the Al Neuharth Media Center and of the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute (later renamed the Newseum Institute). He has long been an advocate for the First Amendment and diversity initiatives.