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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Like students, parents and teachers, the education team at The News Tribune is getting ready to go back to school. We're in the reporting stages of our annual package that usually comes out Labor Day weekend. Here's what we're working on:
• A story about school calendars/schedules. We get frequent complaints from parents about the hodge-podge of late-start, early-release, in-service days and other school schedule quirks. With several school districts unveiling new schedules, we thought it would be a good time to take a hard look at reasons for and effects of the school calendar. School districts say out-of-classroom time is more important than ever for training and planning to improve school and teacher performance. But how does it affect families' schedules and student performance? If you'd like to share how the school calendar affects your life, contact reporter Kris Sherman.
• A district-by-district roundup of new policies, schedules, schools opening, etc.
• The annual statistical dump of WASL test scores and our attempt to make sense of it. This is due out the last week of August or the first week of September. It takes a lot of work on our part to assemble pages of results from 200 or so schools in our readership area. We've discussed whether we should just refer readers online for information about their school's performance. But we think the ink-on-paper charts are easier to scan and compare than the online presentation from the state, which offers greater depth and graphics.
If you have other ideas, drop me an e-mail.
