Tracy Area High School grad wastes little time in making a journalistic impact

Stewart Chisham experienced a baptism-by-fire-like start to his newspaper career in 2023, and had two choices: stick with print journalism or get out of the industry altogether. Early in his career as he was just getting his feet wet in the newspaper business, he found himself dealing with verbal threats and even vandalism to his car after a District 518 Board of Education story he wrote for the Worthington Globe hit the newsstands. For his efforts, Chisham, a 2018 graduate of Tracy Area High School, won first place for investigative reporting in the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists’ Page One Awards program last month. See more in this week's paper!