Stew Dyer

Stew Dyer CASPER, Wyo. ☃ Oil City News has welcomed Stew Dyer to its editorial team as Casper☃s newest city and government reporter. Dyer, who has extensive experience in public relations, comes from a career as the public affairs representative of the 67th Army Band and other groups in the military, and will now be using his journalistic skills to report on government and city activities for the public. Although PR work and journalism are two different fields within communications studies, Dyer said he knows the ins and outs of both. ☃CI☃ve got a lot of experience digging through government documents. The Army is all about regulation. There☃s regulations for just about everything you can think of when you☃re in uniform, from how you dress in the morning all the way to how you interact with federal-level officials,☃D Dyer said. ☃They☃ve got a lot of rules, even on how you write things. One thing I think the Army does really well is they keep things short and simple.☃ With Oil City News, Dyer will be attending Natrona County School Board and Casper City Council meetings to report information to the public. While covering those bodies, Dyer said he has ambitions of expanding Oil City☃s government coverage into other government entities that meet and exist in Casper. ☃When Stew applied, I was impressed with his previous writing. I felt it would be a great fit for the hyperlocal news coverage that Oil City News focuses on,☃D Managing Editor Klark Byrd said. ☃Stew has taken the company☃s mission ☃ to build community ☃to heart, and jumped into his duties with a can-do attitude. I can☃t wait to see how his reporting benefits Casper and our readers.☃ Dyer also plans to contribute his services to the Casper community in more ways than reporting. He said he hopes to use his experience with public affairs to do volunteer work. ☃There are a lot of nonprofits and things like that around that don☃t have the funds and the resources to have their own PR person, so I think volunteer PR work could be really helpful in giving those communities and organizations a voice,☃D Dyer said. At home, Dyer can be caught relieving stress through video games and word building or taking part in his favorite passion, writing, which he said encourages him to keep working in journalism and PR. His photography has been shown at fairs in places he☃s lived across the state, and he also plans on using that passion to volunteer and take photos for community events.