Therese Bottomly | The Oregonian/OregonLive

Therese Bottomly is editor and vice president of content for The Oregonian and its website, OregonLive. She is responsible for all newsroom operations and is a member of the editorial board. For the past four decades, she 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. She is also a member of the Oregon Bar-Press-Broadcasters Council, a group that works to resolve conflicts between the media and the bar. She is a former president of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. She sits on the board of Oregonian Publishing Co. Public Benefits Inc., a 501(c)3 that runs the news organization's annual Season of Sharing fundraising campaign to benefit local nonprofits serving Oregon and SW Washington. She is a four-time Pulitzer Prize juror. In 2018, she was inducted into the Hall of Achievement at the School of Journalism and Communications at University of Oregon, where she was a varsity soccer player. She received the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association's Amos Voorhies Award in 2019 for contributions to the newspaper industry.