The Seattle Times Names New Editorial Page Editor.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2001 Frank Blethen, publisher of The Seattle Times, has named James F. Vesely to succeed Mindy Cameron as editorial page editor. Vesely, who has been associate editorial page editor at The Seattle Times since 1991, will assume his new role on Monday, January 22. "Jim knows this newspaper and local issues as well as anyone I know," said Blethen. "His leadership will provide stability and help us build on the role Mindy Cameron played in making The Seattle Times an important voice in the community." Mindy Cameron has been editorial page editor since January of 1990. Prior to that she was city editor at The Seattle Times. Cameron is retiring from the daily newspaper business but will continue to be a contributor to The Seattle Times editorial pages. She is leaving the newspaper to enjoy a more rural life in Northern Idaho where she has vacationed for many years. "This is a wonderful choice," Cameron said. "Jim is a thorough, grounded newspaper professional. He brings wisdom and a human touch to these pages," she said. As associate editorial page editor, Vesely, 60, has worked with Cameron for almost a decade. He has been a member of The Seattle Times editorial board and an editorial page columnist and editorial writer. "I feel very fortunate that I have been entrusted with this position," Vesely said. "Mindy set a high level of ethics and performance. My job in many ways is to maintain those high standards." Vesely doesn't anticipate any fundamental changes in direction for the editorial content or the structure of the department. He will continue to work with Blethen and other members of the editorial board, and the editorial page writers and editors, to address diversity, women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and , environmental and cultural improvements, ethics in government and other issues. Vesely has focused closely on growth management and the economics of the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. , key areas that likely will be included in his regional agenda. Syndicated columnists are usually reviewed at least twice annually, but Vesely plans to continue basically the same columnists currently featured. Before joining The Seattle Times, Vesley was a visiting editor and consultant at The Anchorage Times The Anchorage Times was a daily newspaper published in Anchorage, Alaska that became known for the pro-business political stance of longtime publisher and editor, Robert Atwood. in Alaska. Prior to that he served as managing editor at The Detroit News in Michigan and at The Daily Herald For the Arlington Heights, Illinois newspaper, see . The Daily Herald was a British newspaper, published in London from 1912 to 1964 (although it was weekly during the first world war). It ceased publication when it was relaunched as The Sun. in Arlington Heights, Illinois Arlington Heights is an affluent village in Cook County, Illinois and a northwestern suburb of Chicago. It is located about 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago. A 2003 Census recount gave the village a population of 76,422, the largest for a village in the United States . He was a Journalism Fellow at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. and, for nine years, an adjunct journalism instructor at Wayne State University Wayne State University, at Detroit, Mich.; state supported; coeducational; established 1956 as a successor to Wayne Univ. (formed 1934 by a merger of five city colleges). in Michigan. Vesely has been an exchange editor in Beijing, China, a member of the U.S.-Japan Editor's conference, and a member of the National Conference of Editorial Writers. The Seattle Times Company is a 104-year-old locally owned family business. Founded in 1896 by Alden J. Blethen, The Seattle Times is a fourth and fifth generation family business. The family's flagship newspaper, The Seattle Times, is the largest daily newspaper in Washington state (220,000 circulation) and the largest Sunday newspaper in the Northwest (502,000). Other Blethen-owned newspapers in Washington
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