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
Occasional contributors:
* Randy McCarthy: Crime/breaking news
* John Henrikson: Tacoma, education
* Matt Misterek: Subruban, military
* 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
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| << < | > >> | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | |||||
- May 2009 (1)
- April 2009 (3)
- March 2009 (4)
- February 2009 (2)
- January 2009 (8)
- November 2008 (3)
- October 2008 (8)
- September 2008 (4)
- August 2008 (18)
- July 2008 (15)
- June 2008 (17)
- May 2008 (18)
- More...
XML Feeds- CustomScoop
- artman77
- Guest Users: 414
The teaser on Sunday's A1 apparently caused some anxiety in the Elks community around here.
Karen said the lodge leader's phone was ringing off the hook in response to the teaser that proclaimed "TACOMA ELKS LODGE SOLD."
The problem, of course, is that the teaser was referring to the old lodge downtown. Many lodge members, however, thought it referred to the current lodge a few blocks from The News Tribune.
The leader of the lodge was very kind about the miscue but did offer a reminder that we need to distinguish between the old, former lodge and the active one.
Point taken.
A reader was offended by a caption for an A2 photo of German model Heidi Klum.
She wrote:
I take exception to your Heidi Klum article in the TNT 03-13-07
edition!How would you feel?
Imagine this, you go to a different country where a different language is spoken. Now you are trying to speak the language with the best you know how......You turn around, and people make fun of you just because you have an accent or dialect.I am from Germany,and your Heidi Klum heading "It vill geeve your hair body!" offended me. I have worked hard learning the English language, and it is discouraging to be ridiculed by others - especially from professional publication such as yours.
I have lived in this country for 2 years now, and I think it is very arrogant, and offensive to write a heading that makes fun of the German language. I hope you are able to recognize these cultural differences for future articles pertaining to the subject matter.
Thank you
Tifanny
We responded:
Hi Ms. Green,
I'm the editor in charge of the copy and design desk. I had a hand in writing this headline.
Our intent certainly wasn't to offend anyone and I'm sorry it did. You raise a valid point. We weren't trying to make fun of the German language. We were attempting to convey the way Ms. Klum talks, which is somewhat of a hallmark for her.
I will pass along your e-mail to my editors with a reminder that light-hearted attempts at humor can sometimes offend readers.
Take care,
Jim Kresse
Editing & Presentation team leader
