Jim Hayes

Long before the advent of spell-check and online thesauruses, Jim Hayes was a devotee of accuracy and clarity. Hayes worked for 18 years on newspapers in Oklahoma, California, Arizona and Washington, D.C. before teaching at the universities of Florida, Arizona, and Minnesota, as well as the American University in Cairo. For twenty-three years, he taught journalism students at Cal Poly and reporters and editors at the Telegram-Tribune in San Luis Obispo. He also served as Chair of the Department of Journalism and was the founding director of the Brock Center for Agricultural Communication. Jim spent his retirement years coaching and mentoring new generations of writers in person and online.