By: E&P Staff George Le Masurier, who has been publisher of two McClatchy Co. weeklies in Washington state, was named president and publisher of The Olympian in Olympia, Wash.
He replaces John Winn Miller, who resigned in January.
Since 2001, Le Masurier has been publisher of The Peninsula Gateway and The Herald, two newspapers serving communities in Washington's Puget Sound region.
"George literally was born into the newspaper business and has devoted his professional life to community journalism and community service," McClatchy Chairman and CEO Gary Pruitt said in a statement. "He's an ideal fit to carry on those traditions at The Olympian."
Le Masurier, 61, was born and raised in a small farming town in the north central part of Minnesota where his family owned the weekly newspaper, The Paynesville Press. Le Masurier grew up in his family's apartment atop the newspaper building and, he said, "went to sleep every Tuesday night listening to my dad run the press downstairs."
He took over the family newspaper in 1970 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. He moved to British Columbia in the mid-1970s, and eventually became editorial director and then general manager for nine community newspapers published on Vancouver Island by E.W. Bickle Ltd.
Thomson Newspapers acquired the publications in 1989, and in 1992, Le Masurier was promoted to vice president and chief operating officer of Thomson's Community Publications Division, responsible for 26 non-daily publications across Canada.
Le Masurier worked in Canada until 1998, when he returned to the United States to work for Sound Publishing Inc., a suburban newspaper publisher in Washington state and a subsidiary of Black Press Ltd. He joined McClatchy in 2001.
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