Tony Balandran

A journalist with 28 years of experience, Tony has been with the Victoria Advocate since March 2011 and has been its city editor since September 2014. A graduate of the University of Kansas, he has worked for four professional news companies. He started as a reporter at The Fort Collins Coloradoan, where he worked for seven years, covering several beat assignments.

He was hired as the assistant city editor at The Greeley (Colo.) Tribune in 1996, where he worked for three years. Then he relocated to Kansas City, Mo., where he worked the next 10 years at The Kansas City Star. He was the Star’s Northland bureau chief when management began downsizing.

Tony has coached and mentored many reporters during his career and has participated in summer workshops during the past 12 years, teaching high school students the principles of journalism.