A journalist with more than 40 years of experience, Judi Buehrer has worked as a local government reporter for daily and weekly newspapers in Lincoln, Neb.; Arlington, Va., Albuquerque, N.M.; Conifer, Colo., and Moscow, Russia. In 2005, she retired from the American Water Works Association, where she was an editor for seven years, and is now freelancing again.
As a stay-at-home mom raising three children, Buehrer turned to freelancing for magazines and newspapers. She also freelanced in the Denver area in the early 1980s and while living in Bangkok and Riyadh in the 1990s. Her articles have appeared in Empire Magazine, (formerly The Denver Post Sunday magazine), the Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, the Lincoln Journal, Impact (the Albuquerque Tribune's Sunday magazine), New Mexico Business Magazine, New Mexico magazine, the Lincoln Journal's Travel Holiday Magazine.After moving to Moscow in 1991, Buehrer became a reporter for the Moscow Times, the first English-language daily in Russia after the August 1991 coup d'état. While in Bangkok, she had a regular column in the Thai Airways' Sawadii magazine and was a regular contributor for Thailand Tatler, Living in Thailand, Thailand Traveler and Momentum and was also published in the Bangkok Post newspaper. As a freelancer in Riyadh, she was a correspondent for Gulf Marketing Review magazine and wrote for the Arab News newspaper, Saudi Airlines' inflight magazine and other English-language publications in the Gulf region.
Buehrer graduated from the University of Nebraska with a major in journalism and minors in political science and English. She joined New Mexico Press Women in 1980 and transferred to CPW in 1985. She has won numerous CPW and NFPW Communications Contest Awards and awards in the Colorado Press Association.
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