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Cheryl Dell served as Publisher and President of The News Tribune from December of 2004 until April of 2008. She is now Publisher and President of the Sacramento Bee.
Executive editor of The News Tribune since 1994. He is responsible for the news report and is a member of the editorial board.
Before joining The News Tribune, he worked 20 years at The Kansas City Star as a reporter, city editor, managing editor and executive editor. He was an editor on projects that won Pulitzer prizes for local and national reporting.
Zeeck is active in several national journalism organizations. He is a member of the board of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and has served on the boards of the Associated Press Managing Editors and New Directions for News, an industry research and development organization. He also is active in journalism education.
He received an MBA from Rockhurst College in Kansas City and a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri. He is a Presbyterian and an Eagle Scout. He is married to Valarie S. Zeeck, a lawyer and former judge. They have two sons, Phillip and Michael. He is proud to be a Texan by birth and a Tacoman by choice.
Rodney Robinson has been serving as Information Technology Director for The News Tribune since 1999. As such, he cares for all of the technology needs of the company.
Robinson's first experience with the publishing industry began as a teenage boy, delivering weekly advertisements for Advertising Addressing and Postal Service in Bakersfield, California.
Later, he worked as a paperboy for the Bakersfield Californian. After moving to Sacramento, California in his late teens, he started working for The Sacramento Bee, replenishing newsstands throughout the city. Before long, he moved inside and worked first in the newsroom and then in the computer center where he found his niche and gained experience from the ground up. He now has over 25 years in the business and is an active member of the Newspaper Association of America.
Volunteer activities include membership on the board of The Broadway Center for The Performing Arts in Tacoma, part of the Patient Visiting Group at St. Joseph's Hospital for the Franciscan Health Systems' Transfusion-Free Medicine and Surgery Program, and community outreach by way of personal visits to many neighborhoods as a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses.
He and his wife Lorraine enjoy fishing and tennis and have a married son, Rodney.
Publisher of The Peninsula Gateway in Gig Harbor and the Puyallup Herald since 2001. Born and raised in Minnesota, he comes from a long line of community newspaper publishers. While earning BA degrees in philosophy, English and journalism at the University of Minnesota, he worked the sports and tri-state desks for the Duluth News Tribune. After college in 1970, he took over his father’s newspaper until marrying a Canadian and moving to British Columbia in 1975.
In Canada, Le Masurier served as editor of the Comox District Free Press on Vancouver Island, winning several regional and national writing awards. He eventually became General Manager of the Free Press’ parent company, E.W. Bickle Ltd. and assumed the title of Island Manager when Thomson Newspapers Canada bought the Bickle papers in 1989. He was promoted to Vice-president and COO of Thomson Newspapers Canada, Community Publications Division in 1991. In 1995 he took a position as Editorial Director of Black Press, moving back to the United States in 1998 to start the Federal Way Mirror, a Sound Publishing Inc. newspaper, which is a subsidiary of Black Press. In 2000 he took over as President of Sound Publishing.
Le Masurier is an active Rotarian, a director of the Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce and sits on several other community boards in Gig Harbor and Puyallup. He’s served as a United Way director, director of the B.C. Summer Games, advisory board member of both the Federal Way Advancing Leadership program and Highline Community College. He was a founding director of the B.C. Press Council and has served on newspaper-industry boards in Canada and Washington. He lives in Gig Harbor with his wife, Fran.
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