Jan 10, 2025
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A lot of us grow up knowing exactly what career we want to go into, sometimes even as young as 11-years-old. In this weeks Flashback Friday, we go back to 1984 where we'll introduce you to one of the youngest newspaper editors in KELOLAND history. These are the busy fingers of the columnist for the newspaper bull news wide they also belong to the paper's managing editor, director of marketing, and publisher 11-year-old Benjamin Stowe of Akron Iowa the enterprising young man types the paper on his father's computer and prints it out once a month in his families dining room. Call to Freedom: Trafficking bill could be ‘monumental’ "I just decided that this was one way to make a few extra cents and use my sense and put together a newspaper, so I could have something to hand out and let the news spread." In addition to all his other duties Benjamin spreads the news by doing what many other people his age do to earn money. He delivers his paper to his thirty or so subscribers. The price. 15 cents an issue. Benjamin features good news in his single page paper, neighborhood stories, an occasional game or two, and a recipe from time to time. "There's a lot of people in there that I'm interested in, and I enjoy reading what he has.""Writing the paper he's had to learn a lot in terms of spelling and sentence structure and its also been just a lot of fun for him to do." Because he has so much newspaper experience at such an early age you might think Benjamin would have a real head start toward a career over many of his peers, but Benjamin doesn't want to be a journalist when he grows up, he'd rather be a railroad engineer. Mark Ferree, KELOLAND News, Akron Iowa.
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