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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* Jeremy Harrison: Photo
* Norma Martin: Soundlife
* Sue Kidd: Lifestyle
* Craig Sailor: Arts & Entertainment
* Jim Kresse: Copy desk
* Mary Anderson: News administration
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A redesign of thenewstribune.com launches at 2 a.m. Wednesday. The culmination of about nine months of work, the new design offers a better display of homepage and section front items, and introduces the Pluck commenting system.
Our site will be off line for a short period early Wednesday morning as we make the shift.
The new home page will keep a large photo anchored at the top of the page, which we think is an advantage over our current format that stacks breaking news updates at the top, pushing the photo farther downpage all day.
We'll still be breaking news all day long, but beginning tomorrow we'll make it clearer which of the updates are big news and which are lesser news.
Casual readers shouldn't notice a change in the commenting process. Most registered users shouldn't be phased either - their comments will show under each article. Comment threads will not carry over from the old system to the new one.
We're also launching the vMix online video platform and a major revision of the photo galleries, powered by SlideShowPro.
VMix and SlideShowPro facilitate collaborative, high-volume, quick-deployment production environments - important for online breaking news.
There will be a button on our homepage tomorrow which you can click to log comments on the redesign or let us know of any problems you see.
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Update at 2:37 p.m.
The Private Message functionality is not a feature of the *new* Pluck commenting platform. We're lobbying for that feature to be added on future software updates. - Doug Conarroe, AME-online
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