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Jerry Wakefield, Managing Editor
Jerry Wakefield has been managing editor of The Olympian for 10 years. He has worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Florida, Missouri and Kentucky. He and his wife, Barb, have two children in the Olympia school system.
Dusti Demarest, Assistant Managing Editor
Dusti
Demarest, assistant managing editor in charge of the Living, Weekend
and Home sections, has worked for The Olympian since June 1994. Before that, she worked as a reporter and editor in Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. She is a Washington state native who was the second generation of
her family to graduate from Stadium High School in Tacoma. She has two children, Hannah and Luke.
Mike Oakland, Opinion Editor
Mike
Oakland is editorial page editor at The Olympian. Oakland was a city, county and state government reporter for 20 years before assuming his current position in 1992.
Editorial Board
George Le Masurier, Publisher
Mike Oakland, Editorial Page Editor
Jerry Wakefield, Managing Editor
Peter Stroble, Community Representative
Katherine Mahoney, Community Representative
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You'll see changes starting today (hint: One's color comics)
Today and this week, The Olympian introduces changes designed to make the paper more useful to readers. Here are some highlights:
Living. We’ve combined the strongest of our South Sound features coverage into two new sections called Living. They’ll publish on Sundays and Wednesdays. The highlight of the Sunday section each week will be the cover story, designed to introduce readers to South Sound people they might not otherwise meet or take them places they might not otherwise go. Today’s cover story is a compelling look at how the families of past slain law enforcement officers cope after the tributes and memorial services end.
Olympian columnists Lisa Pemberton (Busy Mama) and Dr. Diana Yu will be featured on alternating Sundays as well.
Our outdoors coverage has its own “front page” too – on the Adventure page at the back of the Sunday section. Each week you’ll find stories about great outdoor activities you and your family can take part in, plus Gear Guy, events calendars and all the features you’ve come to expect.
The Sunday section also pulls together coverage of books and travel, plus regular features Getting Involved, the TV grid, movie times, Volunteer of the Week and the crossword puzzle. We think you’ll enjoy today’s section.
Our second Living section will have its debut Wednesday and will combine information and articles about food, homes and gardening into a comprehensive package. You’ll still find local food columnists Mary Ellen Psaltis and Karyn Lindberg and restaurant inspection results, plus features about chefs and their creations. Home and garden coverage moves to Wednesdays and will feature gardening guru Marianne Binetti’s column and stories about South Sound gardeners and their gardens, plus South Sound homes and home-improvement projects.
But wait, there’s more.
Comics. One of the biggest changes you’ll see all week, starting today, will be on our comics pages. The Sunday comics have undergone their most extensive change in more than a decade, with several new strips and many of your old favorites.
There also are big changes for the weekday comics. The lineup has changed, with a mix of new strips and some of the classics you’ve enjoyed for years, but with a twist. The comics now will appear every day in full color.
On the back of the daily comics page you’ll find something else new: a page called Take Time, featuring the daily crossword puzzle, the TV grid, Dear Abby, plus the word puzzle Jumble and a new Sudoku.
The comics will appear on the back page of the Classified ads on Mondays, with Take Time inside. The other five days, they’ll have their own pullout page.
Weekend. Our Weekend tabloid moves to Friday publication, which will allow us to publish more up-to-date information about weekend activities in Thurston County and beyond. It still will have all the features you’ve come to expect, including movie reviews, nightlife and the centerfold Planner.
With our revised features and comics lineup, we have attempted to focus our resources – our people, newsprint and space – on what matters most to readers.
The features sections on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays no longer will be published. The best of their content moves to the new Sunday and Wednesday sections and the Take Time page, with some other content migrating to A2 daily.
Also going away are the Sunday and daily business pages. The local and wire business content will continue to appear in the A section daily, but without a dedicated page.
We hope you like these changes. Feel free to share your thoughts by sending an e-mail to news@theolympian.com with “features changes” in the subject line.
Managing Editor Jerry Wakefield can be reached at 360-754-5440 or jwakefield@theolympian.com.
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