Karen Peterson was named executive editor in August 2008. She served as managing editor of The News Tribune for three years. She joined the paper in 2000 as suburban team leader. She has been a reporter and editor for newspapers in Hawaii and Indiana, and for an Army publication in Germany. During her husband’s first tour at Fort Lewis in the late 1980s, she wrote for The Lakewood Press and started the monthly Pierce County Parent. She is a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors. She and her husband, a retired Army officer, have two sons and live in Gig Harbor. Email Karen
Managing editor Dale Phelps has been a senior editor at The News Tribune since 1998. Before coming to Tacoma, he was a copy editor and assistant sports editor for 19 years at The Kansas City Star. He's a past chairman of the Northwest Region of the Associated Press Sports Editors. He lives in University Place with his wife and two children.| Email Dale
David Montesino has been the Assistant Managing Editor/Visuals for The News Tribune since December 2005. Montesino oversees the operation of the photography, graphics, design and copydesk departments. He worked at The News Tribune as the presentation team leader in 2000. He has worked as a graphics editor for The New York Times, art director at the L.A. Times and managing editor of The Honolulu Advertiser. Born and raised in the Philippines, Montesino immigrated to the United States in 1984 and studied journalism at Humboldt State University. | Email David
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I spent much of the past two days filling in for a reporter as the Reader Representative. I thought I'd share highlights from some of the more interesting calls and e-mails from TNT readers:
* A reader named Michelle says she got "a whopping $371" economic stimulus payment from the feds, and cautions that the media need to be careful to make sure the public understands individuals get up to $600. The way some media reports shorthand the issue, it makes it sound like everyone gets $600, she says. Good reminder, Michelle.
* A Vietnam vet complained that he hadn't heard whether we plan to cover a golf event on Friday for nearly 450 wounded and amputees from Iraq who are getting treatment at the American Lake Veterans Hospital. It sounds like quite a special event, and we do plan to cover it.
* Bill wants to know why Tacoma's reservoirs are so low. We're working on a story about that - and the relation to the incredibly deep snowpack. The story should run early next week.
* Bernadine wants to know if a message she got in an e-mail is true: Does Barack Obama really want to salute "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" instead of the National Anthem because he feels the anthem conveys "a war-like message"? Answer: No. This is an urban legend debunked by snopes.com and factcheck.com, both of which determined that it was a satirical column written by an Arizona writer that's now being circulated as true.
* I helped a handful of readers find stories that were buried deep within our vast Web site. Said a reader named Loretta: "This is wonderful. I couldn't live without the TNT."
