Catherine Shen, whose long career in newspapers included 11 years as an editor at The San Francisco Chronicle, died in Seattle on March 31. Ms. Shen, who suffered from pancreatic cancer, was 68.
Her newspaper positions included four years as publisher of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, later as general manager of the Horvitz Newspapers in the Pacific Northwest, and as a senior vice president at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She also worked as an executive with the Gannett newspaper chain and as associate publisher of the Marin Independent Journal.
