Neice Bell’s more than 45 years in newspapers — which began in a Kerrville closet as a typesetter in 1979 — will wrap at the end of May as she finishes her second tenure as publisher of the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung.
More than a dozen years of that long career have been spent in New Braunfels, where Bell consistently put together teams that broke new ground and won statewide accolades, including multiple newspaper and newsroom of the year awards and “Bright Ideas,” which recognize unique advertising campaigns.
“The thing I enjoyed most was watching the people working with me succeed and become more — to watch them develop, becoming managers and doing more with their careers and lives,” Bell said. “It gave me great satisfaction to know that I was part of that.”
