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Walker named editor of North Kitsap Herald/Rasmussen editor of The Journal of the San Juan Islands

12.30.10

Sound Publishing is pleased to announce that Richard Walker has been named editor of the North Kitsap Herald newspaper in Poulsbo, and that Scott Rasmussen will succeed him as editor of The Journal of the San Juan Islands in Friday Harbor.

Richard Walker transfers to the Herald from The Journal of the San Juan Islands, where he has served as editor since November 1999. On San Juan Island, he was a member of the San Juan Historical Museum Board of Trustees for 10 years and authored the photo history, “Roche Harbor.” He has been a reporter, city editor and editor in Alabama, California and Utah. He was editor of Alabama’s fastest-growing daily newspaper, and in California was editor of a group of newspapers producing six editions four days a week. He has been a journalist since 1978, with the exception of four years in the U.S. Navy.

Scott Rasmussen joined the Journal as a staff writer in December 1999. A native of the Portland/Beaverton, Ore., area, he graduated from the University of Oregon in 1988 with a B.A. in English literature. Scott began working in journalism as a freelance writer for several publications in the Portland area. For the Journal, he’s covered sports, county government, environmental issues, courts and crime, dozens of fires, numerous plane crashes, myriad human interest stories and is the author of the weekly, ever-popular “Cops Log.”

Their new assignments begin in mid-January.

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