Dave Stanley started his successful newspaper career nearly 30 years ago at the Newton Daily News. This week, he was recognized by his peers as a leader in the Iowa newspaper industry.

Stanley, owner-publisher of the New Hampton Tribune and Nashua Reporter was recently one of five nominees to serve a three-year term on the Iowa Newspaper Association Board of Directors beginning in February. He is expected to be voted in at the INA annual convention to be held Feb. 7 and 8 at the Downtown Marriott Hotel in Des Moines.

He began his career as an advertising sales representative with the Daily News in 1983. He became advertising manager in 1986, a position he held until 1996, when he left to become publisher of the Mitchell County Press-News in Osage.