Introduction
The editorial board meets daily to discuss news and editorial topics. Together the editorial board comes up with a consensus opinion on topics that are published as editorials in the South Sound section of the The News Tribune.

The News Tribune's editorial board welcomes observers to its daily topics meeting, held at 9 a.m. each weekday. For an appointment, contact editorial writer Cheryl Tucker at 552-7033 or cheryl.tucker@thenewstribune.com.

Organizations seeking to discuss specific issues with the editorial board should contact editorial page editor David Seago at david.seago@thenewstribune.com.

Meet the members

Cheryl Dell was named publisher of The News Tribune Dec. 3, 2004. Previously, Dell served as publisher of the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Wash., since 2000.

Since moving to the South Sound, she has become involved in several community activities. Dell serves as the Vice Chair for the Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County and is on the board of directors for The Washington Roundtable, The Executive Council for a Greater Tacoma, The University of Washington – Tacoma Advisory Board, The Inland Press Association and The Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association. She is also just finishing her term with as a board member for The Allied Daily Newspaper Association.

Presstime magazine in 1999 included Dell on its annual list of "20 under 40" newspaper people to watch nationwide. Her work has been recognized throughout her career, including the Communications Woman of the Year award from the Business and Professional Women of San Angelo, Texas; and a Distinguished Leader Award from the National Association for Community Leadership.

Dell has held a variety of newspaper management positions in California, Texas and Washington over her career. She joined McClatchy in 1997 as advertising director of The Modesto Bee. She moved to The Fresno Bee in 1999 as vice president of sales and marketing until her appointment in 2000 as publisher of the Tri-City Herald. Dell is a native of Modesto, Calif., and a graduate of California State University, Sacramento, with a degree in communications.

She is married to Brad Dell and lives in Steilacoom with their two terriers Brindie and Langley.

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David A. Zeeck has been executive editor of The News Tribune since 1994. He is responsible for the news report and is a member of the editorial board.

Before joining The News Tribune, he worked 20 years at The Kansas City Star as a reporter, city editor, managing editor and executive editor. He was an editor on projects that won Pulitzer prizes for local and national reporting.

Zeeck is active in several national journalism organizations. He is president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and has served on the boards of the Associated Press Managing Editors and New Directions for News, an industry research and development organization. He also is active in journalism education.

He received an MBA from Rockhurst College in Kansas City and a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri. He is a Presbyterian and an Eagle Scout. He is married to Valarie S. Zeeck, a lawyer and former judge. They have two sons, Phillip and Michael. He is proud to be a Texan by birth and a Tacoman by choice.

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Editorial page editor David Seago oversees the daily editorial and letters pages and the Sunday Insight section. He is also responsible for selecting and editing Viewpoint and Your Voice columns.

A Lincoln High School graduate, Seago began his career at The News Tribune in 1967 with a summer job as a copy boy. After graduating from Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he returned to The News Tribune as a full-time reporter. He served two years as city editor before joining the editorial page staff in 1983. He takes a particular interest in education and energy deregulation issues.

He is an outdoors enthusiast who enjoys kayaking, cycling and backpacking in the great Northwest,. He lives in Tacoma's North End with his wife, Anne. He has two daughters, Ainsley and Laura.

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Chief editorial writer Patrick O'Callahan has been on The News Tribune's editorial page staff since 1987. A “nearly native” Washingtonian, he attended public schools in Marysville and is a graduate of the University of Washington, where he studied English and journalism. In 1979, he joined McClatchy Newspapers as a reporter for the Tri-City Herald in Eastern Washington. After covering the Hanford Nuclear Reservation for several years, he served as the Tri-City Herald's editorial page editor before returning to the Puget Sound region to join The News Tribune's editorial board.

O'Callahan is a reading tutor at Jefferson Elementary School; he is also a board member of the South Sound Division of the March of Dimes. His interests include hiking, literature and history. He and his wife, Patricia Lee O'Callahan, live in University Place; they have two adult children, Elizabeth and Patrick.

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Editorial writer Cheryl Tucker has been with The News Tribune since 1978 in various capacities, including reporter, magazine coordinator and features editor. Besides writing editorials, she also handles day-to-day production of the editorial and op-ed pages, including selection of columns and cartoons and copy-editing letters to the editor.

She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida and previously worked as a reporter and features editor at the now-defunct Times-Herald in Newport News, Va. Growing up in an Air Force family, she lived all over the United States and in Northern Italy, and now calls Lakewood home.

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Kim Bradford joined the News Tribune's editorial board in 2005 as an editorial writer.

Born and raised in Portland, Bradford first moved to Washington state in 1990 to attend Pacific Lutheran University where she studied journalism and law. During college, she worked at The News Tribune and other weekly and daily newspapers in Alaska, Oregon and Washington.

After graduation, she joined the Tri-City Herald as a reporter covering local and state government. For two years, she staffed the paper's Olympia bureau during legislative sessions. Bradford joined the Herald's editorial board in 1999 and became editorial page editor in 2002 before moving back to the west side.

She lives in central Tacoma and is married to Cole Cosgrove, a copy editor at The News Tribune.