December 6, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines Marco Santana, the Des Moines Register's new technology and startup reporter, is comfortable to admit he was "the journalism nerd" in college. Or as he put it: "The guy who wore his 'journalist' T-shirt to the bar and did not think twice about it." "Now, after a few years in the field," Santana said in an email interview on Monday, "that dedication has paid off and I intend on covering this community as closely as I can, highlighting its successes for Register readers." Whether or not Santana used that line in his interview wasn't confirmed, but it matches up with the answer we received when we asked Lynn Hicks, the Register's … read more
