Local 5/WOI

Parker currently works as a show producer at Local 5/WOI in Des Moines. He started as the Midday producer, producing the 45 minute Midday newscast at 11 a.m.

He was later moved to take over the morning show, Good Morning Iowa, which airs from 5-7 am on channel 5, as well as an additional 7-9 am exclusively on WOI’s streaming app, WeAreIowa+.

You can find an assortment of clips from shows Parker has produced here.

Travel + Leisure

During his senior year at Drake, Parker had the opportunity to work as an editorial apprentice at Travel + Leisure, a brand of People Inc., formerly Dotdash Meredith.

At T+L, Parker did an assortment of tasks, from first-round edits of stories, to fact-checking stories, to writing sidebars and small pieces that were published across multiple issues of T+L. Check out his T+L published works below.

Drake Political Review

Parker was a writer, editor, and eventually served as Editor-in-Chief of the Drake Political Review magazine. DPR is a nonpartisan political journal that covers political stories from Iowa all the way to global. DPR commits itself to honest, non-biased political coverage from an angle that matters to college students.

Below you’ll find a PDF of the fall 2024 issue and spring 2025 issue, and other snippets of stories Parker has published in previous magazines.