Duane D. Freese Director Duane Freese has 34 years experience writing opinion, features, news and policy analysis. Mr. Freese joined DCI Group in 2005 as a writer and researcher. Mr. Freese’s background includes being an editorial page editor for Gannett, a member of USA Today’s editorial board as an editor and writer for 13 years and an editorial consultant and deputy editor of TCS Daily. As an editorial page editor in Battle Creek, Mr. Freese won first place awards from Gannett and from the Associated Press of Michigan for his writing. Mr. Freese’s work also earned him a fellowship to the University of Michigan in 1986 where he studied the use of statistics by the media. That led to Mr. Freese joining USA Today in 1987. At USA Today, Mr. Freese wrote on budget, communications, legal, forensic science and retirement issues, as well as serving as back-up director for editorial page operations. Mr. Freese was named to the first group of USA Today fellows in 1997. In addition to his work for USA Today, Mr. Freese wrote a book, “Retirement Planning: The Real Midlife Crisis.” Mr. Freese began working as an editorial consultant to TCS Daily in 2000 and became its deputy editor, writing columns on telecommunications, diet, climate and energy issues. Born and reared in the Detroit area, Mr. Freese graduated from Albion College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. He attended the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration, studying international economics and business and government before doing graduate work in journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where Mr. Freese also took part in the London reporting program.   Back to Our People