Sam Bailey, who graduated this year from Emporia State University in Kansas with a degree in communications, has joined the Sheboygan Press as a reporter. She will cover local government and general news.
Bailey served as managing editor for The Bulletin student newspaper at ESU and as editor of The Hutchinson Collegian at Hutchinson Community College. She was named Kansas Collegiate Media Journalist of the Year twice — for four-year schools in 2023 and for two-year schools in 2021. She also recently completed an internship with the Kansas Reflector, an affiliate of States Newsroom.