Kent Warneke has spent 40 years associated with the newspaper industry, most of them as editor of the Norfolk Daily News. A native of Plainview, Neb., Warneke got his first exposure to journalism working for his father’s newspaper, the Plainview News. After graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in journalism and political science, he worked for the Omaha World-Herald for five years before moving to Norfolk. He was inducted into the Nebraska Journalism Hall of Fame in 2012 and was name the Nebraska Press Association’s Master Editor-Publisher in 2019. He and his wife, Susan, live in Norfolk and have two grown children.
