Rick Attig, 44, is an associate editor and member of The Oregonian's editorial board.

A native of Oregon, Attig graduated cum laude from the University of Oregon in 1983 with bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science. He began his newspaper career in 1983 as a police reporter at The Springfield (OR) News. Attig spent 12 years at the Bend (OR) Bulletin where he worked as a senior writer, editorial page editor and executive editor.

He joined the editorial board of The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in the Pacific Northwest, in February 1998. He is The Oregonian's lead editorial writer, specializing in state government, politics and environmental issues.

Attig has won more than 40 state and regional newspaper awards, including twice the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association best writing award, and seven times the best editorial award. He wrote editorials included in The Oregonian's coverage of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Attig has attended seminars at the American Press Institute and the Poynter Institute, was a Casey Foundation for Children and Families journalism fellow in 1996, and a National Press Association Agendas '99 fellow in 1999.

Attig is married and has two children.

Doug Bates, a longtime West Coast newspaper editor and author, is an associate editor at The Oregonian and a member of the editorial board. Before joining the paper in 1993, he worked as assistant managing editor of The San Siego Union-Tribune, news editor of The Seattle Times and managing editor of The Register-Guard in Eugene.

Bates is the author of two books, The Pulitzer Prize: The Inside Story of America's Most Prestigious Award (Birch Lane Press, 1991) and Gift Children: A Story of Race, Family and Adoption in a Divided America (Ticknor & Fields, 1993.)

Born in McMinnville, Bates grew up in Oakridge and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1968. He and his wife, Gloria, live in Portland and have four grown children.