Andy Perdue

Andy Perdue is the Interactive Media director for the Tri-City
Herald. The Washington State native graduated from Western Washington
University with a major in journalism and a minor in Middle East studies. He
joined the Tri-City Herald as a copy editor in 1989 and held the positions
of Sunday editor, news editor and assistant managing editor before being
promoted to Interactive Media director in 2000. He and his staff of three
oversee a dozen Web sites for the 43,000-circulation daily newspaper. Perdue
also is editor of Wine Press Northwest, a quarterly consumer magazine owned
by the Tri-City Herald. He is the author of "The Northwest Wine Guide: A
Buyer's Handbook" (Sasquatch Books, 2003) and is an international wine
judge. He and his wife, Melissa, live in Richland, Wash.