M. E. Sprengelmeyer

'''Michael E. Sprengelmeyer''' (who uses the byline M.E. Sprengelmeyer) is an American newspaper reporter. For the ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]'', he covered the [[Iraq War]] and the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 US presidential campaign]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/sprengelmeyer/|title=Back Roads to the White House|accessdate=November 2, 2009 |work=Rocky Mountain News|last= Sprengelmeyer |first=M.E.|authorlink= M.E. Sprengelmeyer}}</ref> At the time the ''Rocky'' closed (February 2009), he was its [[Washington, D.C.]] correspondent.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12communicator.html|title=A Reporter With a 'Tom Sawyer Business Plan' Buys a Newspaper|last=Pérez-Peña|first= Richard |date=October 11, 2009|accessdate= November 2, 2009|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

==Education== Sprengelmeyer obtained his degree from Northwestern University in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=M.E. Sprengelmeyer |url=https://828newsnow.com/author/msprengelmeyer/page/5/ |website=828 News Now |access-date=30 May 2026}}</ref>

==Career== Sprengelmeyer worked in the Rocky's Washington bureau since 2001. In 2002, he traveled with the [[US Marines]] in the war in [[Afghanistan]].<ref name="rocky mountain news" />

In August 2009, Sprengelmeyer bought the weekly [[New Mexico]] ''Guadalupe County Communicator'' and became its owner, publisher, editor, and primary writer.<ref name="nyt" />

==Personal== Outside from reporting, he was once a [[Wrigley Field]] usher, accordion player, and played in a band called "News Hole".<ref name="rocky mountain news">{{cite web|title=M.E. Sprengelmeyer|url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/staff/me-sprengelmeyer/|publisher=Rocky Mountain News|accessdate=3 October 2013}}</ref> Michael Sprengelmeyer became "M.E." twenty years ago when he realized that his full name would not fit in a column width.<ref name=nytimes>{{cite web|last=Perez-Pena|first=Richard|title=A Reporter With a 'Tom Sawyer Business Plan' Buys a Newspaper|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12communicator.html|work=The New York Times|accessdate=3 October 2013}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|2}}

==Further reading== * {{Cite news|url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/fashion/article/0,2792,DRMN_62_5216751,00.html |title=Sure it's a big suit to fill, but I'm just the man for the job |last=Sprengelmeyer |first=M.E. |date=December 16, 2006 |accessdate=November 2, 2009 |work=Rocky Mountain News |authorlink=M.E. Sprengelmeyer |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015054438/http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/fashion/article/0%2C2792%2CDRMN_62_5216751%2C00.html |archivedate=October 15, 2009 }} * {{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/living/2010/05/17/foreman.newspaper.thrives.cnn.html|title=Building Up America: Newspaper survives when others fail|last= Foreman |first=Tom |date=May 17, 2010|accessdate=April 29, 2011 |work=CNN|authorlink= Tom Foreman}} * {{Cite news|url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Magazine/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-64232-.aspx|title=Extra, Extra, Read All About It|last= Higgs Nenad |first=Deena |date=February 17, 2011|accessdate=April 29, 2011 |work=Editor and Publisher|authorlink= Deena Higgs Nenad}}

==External links== * The ''[http://www.guadalupecommunicator.com Guadalupe County Communicator]''

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