Dan Winters

Dan Winters ('03, BS Journalism & Mass Communication), Greenlee School graduate and weekend anchor for WHO-TV, will replace John Bachman on the weekday anchor desk beginning in November when Bachman plans to retire, the Des Moines Register reported today. The Register’s Michael Morain reported that Winters, a 2003-04 graduate, has found his promotion “humbling. You don’t grow up in Iowa and not know who John Bachman is. There’s a lot of responsibility to the station and the co-workers and, mostly, to the viewers.” While a student at Iowa State University, Winters, a Chariton native, won the top broadcast television award in the national Hearst competition. Morain reports that Winters, 31, began his broadcasting career at age 16, working for KMA Radio in Shenandoah. He also worked for KCCI-TV during college, when he covered the VEISHEA riots of 2004. He joined WHO later that year and now co-anchors the station’s weekend program “Today in Iowa” with Jannay Towne. Winters has always remained close to his alma mater. Upon the passing of broadcast icon Jack Shelley, he wrote, “I am the beneficiary of Jack Shelley's legacy at the Greenlee School and at WHO-TV. I am also the victim of a generation gap. I finally met Jack Shelley at the Greenlee School Awards Reception in the spring of 2004. My parents attended, as I had recently graduated. They spotted him from across the room and exclaimed, ‘That's JACK SHELLEY!’ When we approached Jack and shook his hand, you would have thought my parents were meeting Elvis. It was all they could talk about later at dinner. I never knew Jack Shelley, but he struck me as being a very distinguished man who had a glint in his eye and a kind way about him.”