Stuber views position as homecoming

The Columbia Basin Herald editorial department is under new management.

Beginning today, Erin Stuber will assume the job of managing editor.

"I am so excited to be back home with all the people I know and love, and returning to the Herald will be a homecoming for me as well," Stuber said. "I started out at the Columbia Basin Herald, my first job out of college, as a photographer."

Stuber first came to the newspaper in 2000. After the position of photographer, she was also the paper's arts and entertainment reporter and coordinated its design.

After working at the Herald, Stuber went on to be the editor of a weekly newspaper in Bremerton and then returned to the Hagadone Corporation, working as the managing editor of the Shoshone News-Press in Kellogg, Idaho.

She also held managing responsibilities with Hagadone weekly newspapers based out of western Montana.

"I think every experience I've had will help me as an editor, life and otherwise," Stuber said. "Life especially."

"It's a tremendous opportunity to bring somebody that has got a lot of talent and has demonstrated her abilities in some of our other newspapers and provided leadership for those that have made them successful, and we'll be looking for the same commitment here," Columbia Basin Herald Publisher and CEO Harlan Beagley said. "Erin brings a lot to the table that will strengthen the CBH in this area, and we're expecting great things out of her and her staff. "

Stuber will replace Mary Powell, who has been Herald editor for four years.

Beagley said Stuber comes on board at an ideal time where the newspaper is at a tremendous growth cycle, with over 700 new subscribers since the first of the year.

"We look forward to her talents increasing our circulation," Beagley said.

"I just hope to take (the newspaper) in a new positive direction and hope to keep covering the community, and serve the community as best we can," Stuber said.