Angela Renkoski

Assistant Professor

About Angela Renkoski

Assistant professor Angela K. Renkoski heads up a first-time program between Drake and Meredith Corporation. In 2003, five students will earn academic credit while working 15-20 hours a week in various areas of Meredith. Renkoski teaches the supporting class and oversees the apprentices’ work in conjunction with their Meredith supervisors in magazine publishing, integrated marketing, and interactive media. In addition, Renkoski teaches a magazine editing course and a course on creating magazines, including a business plan and 16-page Quark-designed prototype.

Renkoski brings with her more than 20 years of experience in journalism. She worked at Meredith Corporation for nearly 10 years in various divisions, such as Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications, Country Home, and Books. She was the first copy chief for both Country Home and Traditional Home magazines. She now continues to do freelance editing. Her Meredith clients include publications for Meredith’s Integrated Marketing Group and Special Interest Publications. She has also done work for Two Rivers Marketing Co., Readers Digest Association books, BH Management Services, the Home Warehouse Internet Web site, Fodor’s books, and Ortho Books. Her work experience includes stints on the copy desk for the Columbia Missourian and the Wilmington News Journal in Delaware.

She has been an adjunct professor and a visiting instructor at Drake for three years. From 1997-2000, Renkoski taught magazine journalism courses at Iowa State University. In addition, she has taught English at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Dodge City Community College in Kansas.

Renkoski has an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and an M.A. in English from the same university. She graduated magna cum laude in 1977 with a B.A. in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she also was a inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

When she’s not teaching, Renkoski enjoys going on RAGBRAI, following St. Louis Cardinals baseball, playing tennis, and reading novels. She has two sons, Ben and Nick, who are attending college at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Contact Angela Renkoski: angela.renkoski@drake.edu

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