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Who is on The Bellingham Herald editorial board
PERMANENT MEMBERS OF THE BOARD: MARK OWINGS Mark Owings is President and Publisher of The Bellingham Herald. Owings was named publisher in 2010 after a 12-year career at The Bellingham Herald, where he was the newspaper's top finance executive since 2004. Owings was born in Portel, Brazil, moved to Woodland, Maine, at age 2 and then to Bellingham at age 13. He graduated from Bellingham's Western Washington University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in accounting. Owings and his wife, Ireneé, have three children: Malcolm, 18, Alex, 13, and Catlyn, 12. E-mail him: mark.owings@bellinghamherald.com JULIE SHIRLEY Julie Shirley is executive editor at The Bellingham Herald, a position that puts her in charge of all print and online news operations for the company. She graduated with a journalism degree from California State University Long Beach in 1979. She began her career as the women's page editor at the Whittier (Calif.) Daily News and had a series of jobs at the Anaheim Bulletin leading to five years as editor. She was managing editor at the Fort Pierce (Fl.) Tribune, editor of the Marysville (Calif.) Appeal-Democrat and managing editor at The Desert Sun in Palm Springs before moving to Bellingham in 2003. |