Webb named Globe editor

Posted Oct. 3, 2002

Bishop Daniel N. DiNardo has named Renee Webb editor of The Globe effective Oct. 1. She has served as the newspaper's acting editor since July.

Webb joined The Globe staff in February of 1994 as a full-time reporter. She was promoted to diocesan news editor in September of 1995 and associate editor last January.

"Working at the diocesan newspaper for the last eight years has been a true blessing in my life," she said. "It is an honor to serve the Catholic community in this capacity."

Webb has hopes of continuing the good work of the paper that was established by longtime Globe editor, the late Deacon Joe Maher.

This native of Sioux City attended St. Boniface Grade School and is a 1982 graduate of Heelan High School and a 1986 graduate of Briar Cliff College, now Briar Cliff University. At BC, Webb majored in mass communications and minored in business. She worked at the college's Cliff News as the news editor in her junior year and was editor-in-chief as a senior.

After graduation, Webb was employed by the Sioux City Journal for six years, writing feature stories for special advertising supplements. Prior to The Globe, she worked in retail advertising for 18 months while continuing to write for the Journal as a correspondent.

Webb's husband, Scott, is a native of Moorland and a 1982 graduate of St. Edmond High School in Fort Dodge. The Webbs have four children: Rebecca, 14; Jillian, 12; Jonathan, 7 and Emma Rae, 19 months. They reside in rural Jackson, Neb. and are members of St. Patrick's Church where she serves as a Eucharistic minister and Scott is an organist and youth choir director.