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Regional Judges: Therese Bottomly
Therese Bottomly  Therese Bottomly is a managing editor at The Oregonian, the Pacific Northwest’s largest daily newspaper. As a managing editor, Bottomly helps manage a staff of more than 340 journalists and has overseen the newspaper’s coverage of everything from the 2006 search for the missing Kim family to the Springfield, OR, school shootings. In addition to her current responsibilities for readership, she is the legal affairs liaison for the paper, handling retraction demands, subpoenas and prepublication review. For the past several years, Bottomly has worked with reporters and editors to open government records to the public. She is a board member of Open Oregon, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting public access to government meetings and records. As part of that work, she is developing a website resource for smaller newspapers and working journalists across the state. She is also a member of the Oregon Bar-Press-Broadcasters Council which works to resolve conflicts between the media and the bar. With the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, she persuaded Oregon’s Legislature to open for public scrutiny records related to any death or serious injury of a child in state custody. She was a Pulitzer juror in 2006 and was chair of the local reporting jury in 2007. She is a native of Oregon, growing up in Northwest Portland. She graduated from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism. Her husband, Mike Francis is an associate editor on The Oregonian’s editorial board. They live in Portland with their daughter. |
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