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Lifestyles editor Jess DeHaven oversees a team of reporters who produce the daily Diem sections, the weekly entertainment guide St. Joe Live and the monthly magazines Kin and Josephine.
A native of Topeka, Kan., she is a 1994 graduate of the University of Kansas with a bachelor of science degree in journalism, news-editorial emphasis.
She joined the News-Press right out of college, working first as a reporter on the city desk covering police, courts and city and county government. On the lifestyles desk, she covered health, religion and home and garden news before being named editor in 2001.
She is a rabid KU basketball fan and views 1988 and 2008 as highlight years in her life. Jess is also an expert on all things 1980s. She and her husband keep busy with their toddler daughter and three cats.
- Concert Review: The Police at the Sprint Center May 13
- Saturday, May 17, 2008
- A reunion tour always makes you ask an uncomfortable question: "How did I get so old?"
Looking around at my fellow Gen-Xers, and often equal numbers of Boomers, I wonder, am I, and what I'm about to see, tragically unhip?
But if a band is still at the top of its game, when the lights go out, the doubts dissipate and you're transported back in time.
Last night, The Police took me, and he rest of the crowd at the Sprint Center, back to 1983.
