Floyd McKay – Professor Emeritus – Western Journalism Alumni

Professor Emeritus

Cascadia Daily News executive editor Ron Judd wrote heartfelt obituary about Floyd McKay on March 16, 2022.

Winter 2022 Update
Winter 2021 Update

Life under COVID-19 has slowed travel plans for myself and Dixie McKay, but both are well (and vaccinated!) and keeping busy at 85. My writing has slowed but I do an occasional piece for Post Alley, a Seattle collective of geezers (both male and female) with a journalistic bent (postalley.org). Still can’t figure what is going on in my former city, Portland, and probably never will.
Winter 2020 Update

Emeritus Professor Floyd McKay remains active from his Bellingham hideout, doing a bit of writing for a new Seattle-based website, PostAlley.org, which is a venue for (mostly) journalists, political hangers-on and others interested in sharing ideas and just keeping on writing. Check it out. Otherwise, all is well at the McKay household.
Winter 2019 Update

Floyd McKay concluded events and promotions for his book, Reporting the Oregon Story: How Activists and Visionaries Transformed a State (Oregon State University Press 2016) and settled into a somewhat more sedentary routine in 2018. He and Dixie remain in good health and good spirits and he’s looking at a couple of ideas for historical publications.