Jack Marsh

Jack Marsh is vice president/diversity programs for the Freedom Forum and executive director of the Al Neuharth Media Center at the University of South Dakota. He lives in Sioux Falls, S.D., but divides his time among all three Diversity Institute offices, in Washington, D.C., Nashville, Tenn., and Vermillion, S.D. Marsh is founding director of the American Indian Journalism Institute at USD and among the founding organizers of the annual Native American Journalism Career Conference at Crazy Horse Memorial. From 1998 to 2001, he served as director of the Newseum’s NewsCapade with Al Neuharth, a traveling exhibit that visited all 50 states and Canada. Previously, Marsh held a variety of journalism and newspaper executive positions in New York, New Jersey and South Dakota during his 27-year career with Gannett Co., Inc. He is a past president of the New York State Associated Press Association and the South Dakota Associated Press Managing Editors. He is a trustee of the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation and a member of its executive committee. Marsh is a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.