Cheryl Dell
 Publisher Cheryl Dell joined the Tri-City Herald in October 2000.
She previously was the vice president of sales and marketing at the Fresno
Bee in California's Central Valley. Born and raised in Modesto, Calif.,
Cheryl is a graduate of California State University at Sacramento with a
degree in communication studies.
Cheryl has been in the newspaper industry since 1984, serving in a variety
of management positions in Central California and Texas. She has been recognized
as Woman of the Year by the San Angelo Business & Professional Women's
Association and as Outstanding Chairwoman of the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce.
She serves on the local board of the United Way, the Community Roundtable,
the Mid-Columbia Reading Foundation and TRIDEC.
Cheryl is married to Brad Dell, executive director of the Washington
State Children's Reading Foundation.
E-mail Cheryl Dell
Ken Robertson
 Executive Editor Ken Robertson has worked at the Tri-City
Herald since 1976 and has managed the Herald newsroom since 1991.
He previously was the Herald's managing editor, assistant managing editor
and city editor and managing editor and a reporter at The Helena (Mont.)
Independent Record. He grew up in Helena and graduated from the University
of Montana in Missoula, majoring in journalism and Latin. He did master's
work in ancient history at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
He has written articles for several magazines, including Montana Journalism
Review, Wine Press Northwest, Wine & Vine, The Sugar Beet Grower and
Old West and True West. He has been chairman of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper
Association's Education Committee since 1998 and previously served on PNNA
reviews of the Northwest's university journalism programs.
He is married to Patti A. Robertson, a private piano teacher who with
a studio of about 40 students, and has three sons and three granddaughters.
Away from work, he is an avid fly fisherman, hunter and target shooter.
E-mail Ken Robertson
Kim Bradford
 Editorial page editor Kim Bradford is a Portland native
and graduated Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, where she majored in
journalism and legal studies. She decided to pursue a newspaper career rather
than go to law school because there are fewer jokes about journalists.
Before graduation, Kim worked at several Northwest daily and weekly newspapers,
including The Oregonian, the (Tacoma) News Tribune and the Port Townsend
Leader. She also spent a summer on Wrangell Island, Alaska, (population
2,300) where she was the newspaper's sole reporter.
She joined the Herald in 1994 as the Pasco and Franklin County beat reporter
and worked in the newsroom for nearly five years, covering Benton County,
transportation, politics and the state Legislature. She joined the editorial
board in 1999 as an editorial writer and was named editorial page editor
in 2002.
Kim likes to ski and travel, but spends most of her free time making
feeble attempts to remodel her 1943 house and negotiating truces between
her cat and dog, the latter of which is much like editorial writing.
E-mail Kim Bradford
Matt Taylor
 Matt Taylor, the Herald's retired editorial page editor,
returned as a part-time contributing editor this year.
A native of Florida, where his family has lived since before the Revolutionary
War, Matt fell in love with Washington when he served at Fort Lewis and
the Yakima Training Center in the mid-1950s. He happily returned here in
1987.
Matt and his wife, Bonnie, live in Kennewick, where they write novels
together. Both are news junkies who cannot start the day without reading
the newspaper. (For years they have had an arrangement wherein Bonnie works
the cryptoquote and the crossword puzzle every morning and Matt gets to
do the Jumble.)
Their daughter, Patti Fahnestock, lives with her husband, A.J., in West
Richland. Matt and Bonnie's son, John (a WSU graduate), lives with his family
in Texas. Their older daughter, Amy Akins (with a master's degree from WSU
Tri-Cities), her husband George and their children moved from here back
to Florida with the Air Force.
Most of Matt's 42-year career was spent in newsrooms in Charlotte, N.C.,
Orlando, Tampa and Miami, Fla. He joined the Herald in 1987.
E-mail Matt Taylor
Chris Sivula
 Editorial writer Chris Sivula has worked at the Herald
off and on since 1981, holding a variety of positions, including reporter,
copy editor and assistant city editor.
As a reporter, Chris covered the city of Kennewick, the state Legislature,
Hanford, energy, health and science.
During 1988-89, Chris was a fellow in the Knight Science Journalism program
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After the fellowship, he was the
Boston bureau manager for Datamation magazine, a publication for computer
professionals.
In 1991, Chris returned to the Herald and has been part of the city desk
team for about seven years, helping to supervise local coverage of news
and features.
He lives on a few acres in rural Benton County with his family, some
cherry trees and usually a few horses. His wife, Betsy, is a schoolteacher.
They have one daughter, Lauren, who is a sixth-grader and a gymnast.
Chris is a Seattle native and graduated from the University of Washington
with a degree in journalism. He says he's been on the dry side long enough
to realize that all those trees west of the Cascades just block the view.
E-mail Chris Sivula
Jack Briggs
 Jack Briggs was educated in England and started work
at the Tri-City Herald as a reporter in 1960. For most of his career he
was a columnist, becoming managing editor in 1985 and publisher in 1992.
He retired in 1997.
Jack won more than 20 Society of Professional Journalist awards for investigative,
governmental, feature and environmental writing. He was past president of
the Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington, a group of newspaper publishers.
In 1995, he was named Tri-Citian of the Year for his service with various
Tri-City community groups. With his wife, Wanda, a retired Herald reporter,
he travels extensively and plays golf pathetically. They have seven children
and 12 grandchildren - most of whom live in the Tri-Cities.
E-mail Jack Briggs | 