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'm not one to ask for trouble, but I have to say I'm surprised at the lack of outrage over our launch this weekend of an online page listing the salaries of employees who work for the state, the county, the city and public schools statewide. We believe taxpayers should have simple access to this information, but we anticipated some pushback.
Our SoundInfo page (www.thenewstribune.com/soundinfo) offers a portal into other existing databases, including those for property values, high school sports scores and area summer camps.
But the salaries are new, and apparently popular. Since Sunday, we’ve had 14,767 page views to the SoundInfo homepage and the salary databases combined. The school employee database is the most popular with 5,576 page views, followed by City of Tacoma at 3,404 page views.
Several other newspapers across the country have posted public salary databases only to be flooded with calls from public employees unhappy about having their salaries revealed.
When the Minneapolis Star Tribune posted salary databases a week ago, editor Nancy Barnes wrote a column explaining why - that taxpayers had a right to know. Among the comments on her column was this one: "I have several friends who are employed by the state who are incensed at this gross invasion of privacy."
As of this posting, our Reader Representative has had no calls about our salary postings. Neither have I. Not one.
We've had only four comments on a similar column by our editor, Dave Zeeck, including this one: "Bravo! Superb idea, TNT."
Hmm. Maybe ours is simply a more enlightened readership. Or maybe public employees are just now finding the site. We'll keep you posted.
