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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
Karen Bierdeman, Community Representative
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Easily find more local news coverage at your fingertips with our new look
The newspaper you’re holding looks a bit different from the one you’re used to reading.
We’ve redesigned The Olympian to offer a bolder look on Page One and to pack more news and information into the paper.
About the changes:
• A new column down the left side of Page One features quick-read items and highlights of what’s inside.
• Stories that continue from Page One now “jump” to the back of the A section so you can flip the section over and continue reading.
• The daily Business page moves inside the A section Tuesday through Saturday.
• A full-size Living section replaces the OlyInside tabloid on Sunday. The TV Book will be a separate section.
• The daily and Sunday Living sections still include all of the features you’ve come to expect, along with expanded coverage of Food on Wednesday, Outdoors on Friday and Home and Garden on Saturday.
• John Dodge’s Environment page moves to the A section beginning Monday. John’s Soundings column will move to Page One on Sundays.
What’s not changing is our commitment to local news and information. The Olympian has the largest news-gathering staff in Thurston County and will continue to provide comprehensive coverage of our communities and people, state government, the environment, the outdoors and much more.
Oh, there are two other changes worth mentioning. During the redesign, we asked our former newsroom artist, Fred Matamoros of Lacey (now an artist for our sister paper, The News Tribune), to update the Capitol dome, which has been a fixture on our front page for years. Fred did that, and the result is the lovely pencil drawing that graces our redesigned nameplate above.
We also decided to change the slogan at the top of the page, which for years was “Serving Washington’s South Puget Sound.”
We think the new one, “Serving the Washington state capital for 119 years,” better reflects our long history in this unique community and our commitment to its future.
Thanks for reading The Olympian.
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