A passionate believer in the power of journalism, Rick Green joined AMM in January 2026 as the new Regional President of Iowa. It’s a return to the Hawkeye State for Green, who served as Editor/VP-News and then President and Publisher of the Des Moines Register from 2011-2015. He also served as President and Publisher of Enquirer Media in Cincinnati, where he had oversight of Cincinnati.com and The Enquirer and set strategy for a dozen community-sized publications across Ohio. He has served in press associations in Ohio, Kentucky, California and Iowa.

Rick is a nationally recognized leader on the content side of media organizations. He knows powerful local journalism converts readers to subscribers while also building invested audiences that advertisers covet. He has served as a senior editor or local business leader in eight markets in six states, from Northern California to North Jersey at such companies as USA TODAY Co., McClatchy Media and Sonoma Media Investments north of San Francisco. As executive editor of The Courier-Journal in Louisville, he led his newsroom to a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for extensive coverage of an outgoing Kentucky governor’s controversial pardons and commutations of more than 600 individuals that exposed racial disparities and political connections. A year later, The Courier–Journal was a two-category Pulitzer finalist for coverage of the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor at the hands of Louisville police. His newsroom also shared a Peabody Award with ABC News for a joint investigation into Taylor’s death.

Green began his career as a 15-year-old high school reporter in his beloved hometown of Coshocton, Ohio. Before heading to college, he was a sports columnist, weekend editor, reporter and a photographer. He is dedicated to preparing the next generation of American journalists by volunteering as editor-in-residence and a board member for the Associated Collegiate Press, the largest and oldest college media organization in the country.

He is the proud father of adult children (none of whom became journalists!) who live in Ohio, Kentucky and Washington, DC. Green completed his journalism studies at Ohio University in 1987.