LAURA JOHNSTON teaches writing and cross-platform editing courses and works closely with the school’s summer workshop for high school students, MUJW.

She is a professor and senior news editor at the Columbia Missourian, where she also serves as the Opinion editor.

Before joining the Missourian, she worked as a reporter and editor for Rust Communications in Cape Girardeau, Mo. A Missouri native, she holds both master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Missouri School of Journalism.