Peter Bhatia

Mr. Bhatia joined The Oregonian in Portland as managing editor in 1993 and helped lead the paper's conversion to a team-based newsroom structure. Previously, he was executive editor of The Fresno (CA) Bee, managing editor of The Sacramento (CA) Bee, editor of The York (PA) Dispatch and Sunday News, managing editor of the Dallas Times Herald, deputy managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner and a reporter and editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. In April 2003, he assumed the presidency of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). Previously, he was chair of ASNE's Ethics and and Values Committee, helping to lead its work on newspaper credibility, was program chair for its 1999 convention in San Francisco and co-chair of the ASNE magazine, The American Editor. Mr. Bhatia served two terms on the board of directors of the Associated Press Managing Editors organization and four times as a Pulitzer juror and has been an editor on six Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. A native of Pullman, Washington, he is a graduate of Stanford University. Mr. Bhatia is a member of API’s Board of Directors and has attended six API seminars: Managing Editors and News Editors (1981), Senior Newsroom Executives (1991), Newsroom Reporting and Editing Standards (2003), Publishers’ Forum on Ethics and Responsibility (2003), Newspaper Next Symposium I: The Transformation Project (2006) and Newspaper Next Symposium II: Blueprint for Transformation (2006).