OCTOBER 1 - SCOTT PARKS
OCTOBER 1 -- SCOTT PARKS AND THE DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Scott has been managing editor of The Denton Record-Chronicle since June 2014. He is responsible for all editorial content in the newspaper. He is a Texas native -- went to high school in San Antonio and then graduated from the University of North Texas with bachelor degrees in journalism and political science.
He has spent his entire career in journalism. In fact, he started as a reporter at The Denton Record-Chronicle and then worked for newspapers Wichita Falls, Corpus Christi and Dallas. He left print journalism to go into broadcast journalism and spent eight years as the news director of WIS-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, S.C. He followed that with four years as news director of KOTV, the CBS affiliate in Tulsa.
But he missed newspaper journalism and returned to The Dallas Morning News in 1994. During the next 20 years, Scott covered some of the biggest stories of the era -- the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine school shooting, the Texas Seven prison escapees, the governorship of Ann Richards and the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush.
Throughout it all, Scott has always seen Denton as his hometown. His family, on his father's side, came here in 1890 and settled out on Roselawn Road near its intersection with Bonnie Brae.
He is married to Cathy Welty Parks and is the father of three sons, two of whom are UNT grads.
He has spent his entire career in journalism. In fact, he started as a reporter at The Denton Record-Chronicle and then worked for newspapers Wichita Falls, Corpus Christi and Dallas. He left print journalism to go into broadcast journalism and spent eight years as the news director of WIS-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, S.C. He followed that with four years as news director of KOTV, the CBS affiliate in Tulsa.
But he missed newspaper journalism and returned to The Dallas Morning News in 1994. During the next 20 years, Scott covered some of the biggest stories of the era -- the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine school shooting, the Texas Seven prison escapees, the governorship of Ann Richards and the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush.
Throughout it all, Scott has always seen Denton as his hometown. His family, on his father's side, came here in 1890 and settled out on Roselawn Road near its intersection with Bonnie Brae.
He is married to Cathy Welty Parks and is the father of three sons, two of whom are UNT grads.