Greg brings a quarter century of full-time reporting to the classroom and has continued that career as a freelancer while teaching at St. Thomas. During his time at St. Thomas, his freelancing has moved beyond video, doing radio work, and writing for News Photographer magazine. Greg’s reporting through the years includes coverage of the Interstate 35W Bridge collapse, the great Mississippi River flood of 1993, the Bill Clinton presidential-campaign bus tour, and the nearly sixth-month labor dispute between John Deere and the United Auto Workers in 1986-87, to name a few highlights.
Recent Freelance Reporting (KARE-TV):
His full-time reporting career was a tour through the Midwest (KODE-TV, Joplin, Missouri; WQAD-TV, Moline, Illinois; KARE-TV, Minneapolis-St. Paul) in a career that has been recognized with national, regional, state and corporate awards. Greg’s reporting has been honored with two national Edward R. Murrows, an Iris, a sports-coverage award from The National Association of Black Journalists, Regional Emmys, Regional Murrows, four first-place Minnesota Associated Press writing awards, three Best Reporter Downstate Television awards from the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association (1996 – 1st, 1997 – 2nd, 1993 – 2nd), and while at KARE, two Best News Writing awards in the Best of Gannett contest. Also, Greg’s work appeared on three Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year recipients’ reels (alphabetically - Scott Jensen, Gary Knox and Jonathan Malat).
Outside of teaching at the university, Greg has shared his passion for journalism and storytelling at multiple conferences and workshops, including the Associated Collegiate Press’ College Media MEGA Workshop (led Broadcasting Track summer 2025), ACP’s National Media Convention, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference, the California Summer Arts Visual Storytelling Workshop at Fresno State, the Kentucky News Photographers Association Seminar, the Michigan News Photographers Association’s annual conference, the Midwest Journalism Conference; the National Press Photographers Associations’ Airborne Seminar, the National Convention, and the News Video Workshop (2004 – 2024); and the Salt Lake City Storytelling Conference.