David A. Zeeck Publisher & President	(253) 597-8554 david.zeeck@thenewstribune.com

Dave Zeeck is president and publisher of The News Tribune, a McClatchy newspaper in Tacoma, WA.

As publisher he’s the chief executive of the paper, with general responsibility for all operations. He was named publisher in July 2008.

For his first 14 years at The News Tribune he was the executive editor and senior vice president for news. He’s also a past-president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. 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. As a reporter Zeeck covered City Hall, medicine and politics and produced several investigative projects.

Zeeck received an MBA from Rockhurst College in Kansas City and a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri. He has served on the boards of New Directions for News (an industry think-tank), the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Missourian Publishing Association, and the Kansas City Urban League. He also has served on advisory committees in mass communications and journalism at Texas Tech and the University of Missouri.

Zeeck is married to Valarie S. Zeeck, an attorney specializing in employment law. They have two grown sons.

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Karen Peterson Executive Editor/Senior Vice President for News	(253) 597-8434 karen.peterson@thenewstribune.com

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Frank Bauer Vice President of Advertising	(253) 597-8625 frank.bauer@thenewstribune.com

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Kenny Hubach Vice President of Finance	(253) 597-8576 kenny.hubach@thenewstribune.com

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John Jordan Vice President of Interactive Media	(253) 597-8487 john.jordan@thenewstribune.com

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Christian Lee Vice President of Circulation	(360) 754-5441 clee@theolympian.com

Christian Lee is the Vice President of Circulation for The News Tribune and The Olympian. He has held director’s positions in both Circulation and Marketing at The Olympian since May 2001. In June 2008, Christian assumed his current position at The News Tribune. Before coming to Olympia, Christian held management positions at newspapers in California, Oregon and Michigan.

Christian received a Bachelor of Science Management degree from Pepperdine University. He is on the Board of Directors for United Way Thurston County.

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George Le Masurier Publisher of The Peninsula Gateway/Puyallup Herald	(253) 853-9248 george.lemasurier@gateline.com

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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Rodney W. Robinson Information Technology Director	(253) 597-8739 rodney.robinson@thenewstribune.com

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.