About Us

The Mercer Island Reporter is a paid newspaper serving the affluent island community located on Lake Washington. Mercer Island is famous for its residential waterfront estates and celebrity residents, including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Interstate-90 floating bridge links this community to Seattle in the west and Bellevue in the east, a boon for island commuters and shoppers.

Your Community News Team

	Publisher William Shaw (425) 888-2311	Shaw is a fourth-generation Eastside native. His family were early homesteaders who worked the log and shingle mills in Issaquah, Redmond and the Upper Snoqualmie Valley from 1910 onward. A print media advertising consultant for a number of local community newspapers since 1986, Shaw's main focus has been on the local retail, major, national and real estate advertising categories. He has been special projects manager for Horvitz Newspapers (the former King County Journal) since 2002 and for Sound Publishing since 2006. Locally, Bill volunteers for the Issaquah Sister Cities Commission and is a member of Myrtle Lodge 108 in Issaquah and Lodge Alba 315 in Seattle.
	Editor Mary L. Grady (206) 232-1215 ext. 1050	Mary L. Grady has been the editor of the Mercer Island Reporter since October 2005. Mary was first hired at the Reporter in early 2002. She earned a degree in journalism from the University of Washington in 2001. Mary has won more than a dozen individual writing awards, and during her tenure as editor, the Reporter has won four General Excellence awards. Prior to becoming a journalist, Mary worked as an engineering economist and forecaster for energy companies. She holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees in applied economics. Mary is a native of Washington state and lived in Seattle before moving to Mercer Island in 2003. She and her husband, Kevin, have two daughters who have attended Mercer Island public schools. Contact her at editor@mi-reporter.com.
	Advertising Sales Consultant Theres'a Baumann (206) 232-1215 ext. 3050
	Reporter Linda Ball	Linda Ball is a reporter for the Issaquah-Sammamish Reporter, a sister paper of the Mercer Island Reporter.
	Staff Writer Rebecca Mar (206) 232-1215	Rebecca Mar, reporter and office coordinator, joined the Mercer Island Reporter in 2007 and has won four awards in writing and photography from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. Contact her at rmar@mi-reporter.com.
	Reporter Megan Managan (206) 232-1215 ext. 5054	Megan Managan is a reporter for the Mercer Island Reporter, covering a little of everything on the Island. She has been with the Reporter since 2009, after spending several years working for the Lake Chelan Mirror in Chelan, Wash. She has covered a variety of areas, ranging from news to entertainment news, education and sports, including coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver for Sound Publishing. Megan graduated from Washington State University, earning a degree in journalism. E-mail Megan at mmanagan@mi-reporter.com and follow her on Twitter at MIRsports.
	Creative Services Melanie Morgan (206) 232-1215 ext. 4050