Twenty-three years after graduating from Ball State University, Timothy Andrews was named chief executive and president of the Advertising Specialty Institute on May 29.
ASI is the largest marketing and media agency using print and electronic forms to publish for specialty advertising products. At his new position at ASI, Andrews works on ways to further integrate technologies. He said he predicts general news sources will soon go completely digital while specialized, niche publications will remain in print.
Although his journalism career has taken him from Ball State to Dow Jones & Company in New York to his current position, Andrews began working on his own.
At the age of six, Andrews published his own weekly newspaper, which he sold to neighbors for a nickel. Andrews pursued his publishing aspirations at Ball State, where he majored in journalism and economics.
He spent two years as managing editor for The Daily News and remembers his favorite college hangout as what was then Tony's Locker Room, where he and other staffers would go for drinks after "putting the paper to bed," on Thursday nights, he said.
After graduating from Ball State, Andrews worked for Dow Jones, but this might not have happened had he not followed the advice of former Daily News advisor David Knott.
Andrews sought the advice of Knott when he received two job offers during the spring of his senior year at Ball State, one in Canada and one in New York with Dow Jones.
"I think [that was] the dumbest question," Knott said, saying Andrews' goal was to write for the Wall Street Journal, which is published by Dow Jones. "Get out of here and go to New York," Knott said he told Andrews.
During his 16 years at Dow Jones, Andrews started a Web-based version of Dow Jones Interactive but never wrote for The Wall Street Journal.
Andrews said during recent visits to Ball State, he noticed building construction and renovation more than any other aspect of the university.
"The growth of the campus from a building's perspective is tremendous," he said
While Andrews said he now gives buildings on campus an "A," Ball State still needs to do some renovations in the journalism classrooms, he said.
"The one thing that disappoints me about BSU, and continues to, is that video, audio and print are separate and not considered to be one discipline," he said.
Earlier this year, Andrews was inducted into the Ball State Department of Journalism Hall of Fame.
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