Financial chief named publisher of Bellingham paper

McClatchy Company named chief financial officer Mark Owings as president and publisher of The Bellingham Herald, once a Knight-Ridder newspaper. The Brazil native has lived in Bellingham, Washington since he was 13. The 1994 graduate of Bellingham's Western Washington University began at the Herald in 1998 as a staff accountant.

Bellingham is between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. on Puget Sound.

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