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The Washington Newspaper
CAREER MOVES n Tri-City Herald Executive Editor Ken Robertson has retired from the newspaper after 35 years. Robertson joined the Herald as city editor and assistant managing editor in 1976, after working as a reporter and managing editor at the Helena (Mont.) Independent Record. He was named managing editor in 1991 and executive editor in 2000. Robertson will remain on the editorial board until a new publisher is named to succeed Rufus Friday. Friday left the paper in June to lead the Lexington (Ky.) HeraldLeader. Robertson’s successor, Laurie Williams, has been with the newspaper since 1984, and in 2000 was promoted to assistant managing editor. She and Robertson are Montana University graduates. n John Hanron has left his position as editor of the Methow Valley News in Twisp. After nearly 14 years with the paper, he said is ready for his next chapter. His successor, Don Nelson, bought the newspaper in July. n Chris Geier has joined the Chronicle in Centralia as photojournalism editor. Most recently an intern at the Lima (Ohio) News, he graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in May 2010. He also was a freelance photographer for media outlets in California’s Bay Area, where he lived in Oakland. n Paul Schmid, a former Seattle Times news artist who writes and illustrates children’s books, has been honored by the Society of Illustrators. Illustrations from two of his books, “Hugs for Pearl” and “A Pet for Petunia,” will be shown in the Original Art exhibit at the
society’s Museum of Illustration in New York City. n Islands’ Sounder editor Colleen Armstrong has been promoted to associate publisher of the Eastsound weekly. She will continue as editor, and also manage the daily affairs of the newspaper office. Armstrong managed the Islands’ Weekly on Lopez for five years before moving to Orcas in 2008 to become the Sounder’s editor. Marcia Van Dyke will continue as publisher of the Sounder as well as five other Sound Publishing newspapers in the San Juans and on Whidbey Island. Meredith Griffith, a staff reporter at the Sounder, recently completed a week-long fellowship with the Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources. She attended the 2011 Puget Sound Learning Institute, which provided site visits and speakers on ecological, political and energy issues affecting the Puget Sound watershed. IJNR, initially a program at the University of Montana, incorporated in 1997 as an independent organization to advance public understanding and civic engagement about the environment through expeditionstyle programs for journalists. n Tom Corrigan has joined the Issaquah Press, writing features and covering city schools. Though Corrigan most recently was a reporter in Bothell, his career has been primarily in Cleveland, his hometown, where he covered schools and politics. n After 17 years of delivering the Belfair Herald, Max Loya, 79, has retired. Loya said the delivery job gave him a chance to meet interesting people and make life-long friends. He had moved to Belfair about 25
years ago, after a coworker in Japan told him Belfair was like paradise. At that time, Loya was working in Asia for the Defense Department. Loya enlisted in the military at 19, and served three military tours in Vietnam before signing on with Defense. n Yakima Valley Newspapers has named Chris Thorn editor of the Yakima Valley Business Journal. After graduating from Eastern Washington University’s journalism program in 2008, Thorn had worked his way up from reporter to editor of the Selah Independent. Also a YVN newspaper, it ceased publication in 2010. Thorn and his wife live in Yakima, and both have families in the area. n Omak native Zachary Van Brunt has joined the staff of the Omak-Okanogan Chronicle as a reporter covering the Omak School Board and communities in north Okanogan and Ferry counties. He has been freelancing for the paper since April, and has lived in Seattle for the past seven years. He is a print journalism grad of Washington State University. n Jessica Slocum has been named general sales manager of the Snohomish County Business Journal in Everett. Her sales career includes a five-year stint with the Everett Herald, where she focused on real estate listings. Prior to joining the Herald, she worked for 18 months at the Seattle Times selling real estate classifieds and for three years on the retail advertising sales staff at the Klamath Falls (Ore.) Herald and News. n Sports reporter Emily Hanson is the newest addition to the Shelton Mason-County Journal’s editorial staff. Previously she reported for
the Okanogan Valley GazetteTribune in Oroville, covering Tonasket as well as city government, high-school sports and a murder trial. She is a 2008 graduate of Washington State University, where she majored in communications with an emphasis on print journalism. The move to Shelton brings her closer to her hometown of Lacey. n Garth Meyer is new on the Whitman County Gazette reporting staff. Originally from Richland, he spent four years as a sports reporter for small newspapers in John Day, Molalla and St. Helens, Ore. He graduated from the University of Oregon in Eugene and studied advertising in Minneapolis. Meyer succeeds Jeslyn Lemke, who left the newspaper to pursue a graduate degree at Eastern Washington University. n Claire Schilperoort, a Sunnyside native and a senior in the creative writing program at Washington State University, interned this summer at the Daily Sun News in Sunnyside. Reporter Emma Fierro left the paper to go back to school to become a teacher. n Ryan Higgins is interning at the Monroe Monitor, taking photos and writing stories. He is a high school student and the son of the late Steve Higgins, a longtime writer for the Monitor. n LaVendrick Smith is a general reporting intern at the Mukilteo Beacon, his hometown newspaper. Now a senior at Mariner High School in Everett, Smith hopes this year to be the editor of the school newspaper, the Marauder Journal, where he was sports editor last year. n The News Tribune in Tacoma has promoted Public Life team leader
John Henrikson to assistant managing editor for digital operations. Henrikson has been a local editor for TNT since 2003 and recently completed a web technology certificate at the University of Washington. Replacing Henrikson on Public Life is Kim Bradford, who has been an editorial writer with the newspaper for six years. TNT also hosted three interns this summer, Sy Bean, a Seattle University student from Vashon Island; Stephanie Kim, a University of Washington student from Kent; and Chris Wells, a University of Montana student who also lives in Kent. n Rebecca Leisher, a 2011 University of Oregon graduate, reported this summer for the South Whidbey Record in Langley. She completed an editorial internship at YES Magazine on Bainbridge Island before joining the Record for the summer. n Ryan Hueter is writing stories for the Sequim Gazette’s “Acorns to Oaks” series, featuring recent Sequim graduates involved in adventures across the nation and world. Hueter graduated from Peninsula College in Port Angeles. n The Daily Record in Ellensburg hosted two interns this summer, Nichole Williamson and Iris Dimick. Both are students at Central Washington University. FIND YOUR 25-HOUR DAY My 50 years on 15 small publications can help you: • sell more ads & subs • simplify operations • avoid bricks through your window • start/improve your website
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