, Visiting assistant professor
Office phone: (406) 243-2176

When he saw his first Page 1 byline in his home
town's weekly newspaper at age 16, John B. Saul knew journalism was going to be his life's
profession. From that start in an Ohio farming
community, Saul earned his BA degree in
journalism at The Ohio State University while
working for newspapers, a radio station and a
wire service.

In 1971, he moved to the Pacific Northwest,
working first as a reporter and then a copy
editor at The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., and the Bellevue Journal-American (now defunct) in the suburbs of Seattle. At the J-A, he met Kathy Triesch, another copy editor, and they married in 1977. Their son, Jacob, was born in 1983. Kathy is now the associate editor of Pacific Northwest Magazine at The Seattle Times.

Saul worked at The Seattle Times for 28 years, first as a copy editor, then as a news editor and finally as an assigning editor on the city desk. He directed coverage of local government, consumer affairs and transportation.

Since 2005, Saul has been teaching and writing and editing as a freelancer, covering Thoroughbred horse racing for The Seattle Times, editing for several
clients and reviewing books on everything from sports to the state of journalism and U.S. politics.

He has also found time to earn a master's degree in English from the University of Washington and to travel almost two years in Mexico and Central America.

He loves reading, rugby, biking and hiking.

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