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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* Jeff Standaert: Crime/breaking news
* Marcelene Edwards: Business
* 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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Some readers expressed concern when we dropped The New York Times news service a few weeks ago.
I wanted to assure you that there are still plenty of sources from which we get news beyond that gathered and presented by our own staff of about 100 journalists.
First there is The Associated Press, which employs 4,000 people in 235 bureaus around the world. It also has access to all the news from the 1,400 US newspapers who are part of the cooperative and from news clients worldwide.
We also subscribe to The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times wire service. These major national papers have large staffs here and in bureaus around the world and give us deep East Coast and West Coast sources.
Then there is the McClatchy Washington Bureau, with a national staff of 23 reporters and editors; seven foreign bureaus (in Baghdad, Beijing, Cairo, Caracas, Jerusalem, Moscow and Nairobi), and 12 regional reporters and editors, including Les Blumenthal, who reports for The News Tribune and the other McClatchy papers in Washington state. McClatchy newspapers also have access to the coverage of the Christian Science Monitor bureaus in Mexico City and New Delhi.
We also receive news from the McClatchy-Tribune News Service, which provides material from the thousands of reporters and columnists at the 30 McClatchy newspapers and nine Tribune Co. newspapers nationwide, plus about 40 other leading news organizations including The Dallas Morning News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Jose Mercury News, MarketWatch, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Orange County Register, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Seattle Times.
We even have a news service that focuses on business news. Bloomberg News covers business and economic news around the world. It covers all of the public companies in Western Washington, including some that no other services cover. The service has more than 2,300 reporters and editors in 135 bureaus around the world.
