Dr. Alan Christopher Wienandt (’95 Ph.D.), Fort Worth. He was an editor at The Dallas Morning News and reporter at the Copperas Cove Leader-News, Abilene Reporter-News and Stars & Stripes in Darmstadt, Germany. He was one of the founders and president of the American Copy Editors Society. For his dissertation at UNT, he explored Mark Twain’s career change from newspapers to fiction. He also was an adjunct professor at UNT and Texas Christian University. He rode motorcycles and practiced Brazilian jiu jitsu despite his diagnosis of Parkinson’s.
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Dr. Alan Christopher Wienandt (’95 Ph.D.), Fort Worth. He was an editor at The Dallas Morning News and reporter at the Copperas Cove Leader-News, Abilene Reporter-News and Stars & Stripes in Darmstadt, Germany. He was one of the founders and president of the American Copy Editors Society. For his dissertation at UNT, he explored Mark Twain’s career change from newspapers to fiction. He also was an adjunct professor at UNT and Texas Christian University. He rode motorcycles and practiced Brazilian jiu jitsu despite his diagnosis of Parkinson’s.
