Alan and Steve Mores honored with James W. Schwartz Award from Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication

[AMES, IOWA, November 13, 2023]—Alan Mores (’80 Journalism and Mass Communication), received the James W. Schwartz Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communication from the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at a ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 in Ames, Iowa. The award recognizes distinguished alumni and friends from the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State.  

Alan Mores is the former co-owner of Tribune Newspapers, Inc., Harlan, IA, and is a past president of the Iowa Newspaper Assoc., Services Board and the Iowa Newspaper Foundation. He was given Iowa’s two highest newspaper journalism honors as its youngest-ever Master Editor-Publisher and Distinguished Service Award honoree.  

His family has established multiple industry educational programs: Iowa Newspaper Foundation Mores Family Leadership Institute, serving 70 aspiring young journalists since 2008; Leo Mores Society of Professional Journalists chapter at Iowa State in 2006 and Mores Family Journalism Scholarships at Iowa State in 1990.  

At his company, Mores implemented its Mac-based desktop publishing system, an in-house marketing company, its e-edition and online presence, and established its computer-to-plate printing process, then the smallest newspaper in the U.S. to adopt the system.  

In his community and state, Mores was named City of Harlan’s youngest Citizen of the Year and Iowa’s Small Business Administration’s Journalist of the Year. He has served on the boards of the Iowa State Greenlee School of Journalism Advisory Board and Iowa Association of Business & Industry.  

While at Iowa State, Mores was a press intern for Gov. Robert Ray (R-IA) and U.S. Rep. W. Henson Moore (R-LA), was named to Iowa State’s Mortar Board honorary and served on a wide variety of organizations which garnered him Greek Student of the Year. Anecdotally, his first Iowa State advisor was future department head and former Harlan Newspaper news editor James Schwartz (Schwartz award namesake) and his mentor during his time at Iowa State was Carl Hamilton (Hamilton Hall) who was then Iowa State’s director of information and fellow Green Gander writer with his father, Leo.  

Mores is a life member of the ISU Alumni Association. 

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[AMES, IOWA, November 13, 2023]—Steve Mores (’67 Journalism – Science & Technical), received the James W. Schwartz Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communication from the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at a ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 in Ames, Iowa. The award recognizes distinguished alumni and friends from the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State.  

Beginning as a printer’s devil during his junior high days at the family newspaper, Steve Mores recalls melting lead every Saturday to mold no less than 121 “pigs” for use on the linotypes for the next week’s letterpress production schedule. After journalism degrees from Iowa State University and the University of Iowa, he returned to the family publications in 1968. Co-publisher by 1973 and corporate president by 1983, he was overseeing Harlan’s two papers, two shoppers and a central plant printing over 25 other publications.  

Active in his community, Mores earned Leadership and Citizen of the Year awards and is finishing his 39th year as President of the Harlan Building Corporation and Industrial Foundation. He’s also been active at Iowa State University in numerous alumni areas, where he has received the Alumni Medal, LAS Distinguished Service Award, and sits on the Iowa State Foundation Board of Governors.  

At the Greenlee School of Journalism, Mores and his brother, Alan, have funded the Mores Family Scholarships in Community Journalism since 1990 and also sponsor the ISU Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists going back to 2007. The Mores brothers also fund the Mores Media Fellowship for the Iowa Newspaper Leadership Institute, a learning institute for community journalists in Iowa and was youngest ever to receive Iowa Newspaper Association’s Master Editor/Publisher Award.  

Mores and his wife, Michelle, also established ISU Foundation insurance endowments for the ISU Alumni Association and the Greenlee School of Journalism. Mores and Michelle have been happily married for 54 years and have two sons, Marc and Michael, both of whom are Iowa State graduates. 

Mores is a life member of the ISU Alumni Association. 

About the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University is a world-class learning and research community. As Iowa State’s most academically diverse college, LAS educates students to become global citizens, providing rigorous academic programs in the sciences, humanities and social sciences within a supportive personalized learning environment. For more information, visit LAS.iastate.edu.