Tesoro, Pioneer publisher, elected WPA president

By VIRGINIA GIORGIS Pioneer Editor vgiorgis@bridgervalleypioneer.com
Posted 1/26/18

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CASPER — Pioneer’s publisher, Mark Tesoro was elected president of the Wyoming Press Association at the Association’s convention last weekend in Casper.

Tesoro also serves as the publisher of the Evanston Herald, Kemmerer Gazette, Pinedale Roundup and Sublette Examiner.

Tesoro has served as publisher for these papers since 2013. He had previously spent more than eight years at the Herald — from 2003 to 2011, holding the position of advertising manager before he left.

Tesoro moved to the area with his family in 1973, when he was 2, and grew up in Evanston. Holding a Herald morgue book, Tesoro said, talked of the value of newspapers and the editions being concrete and don’t fade away like things on the Internet. He said, “Newspapers are a historical record of what happens in our community. There are other records, but they can’t compare to newspapers. We capture it all, that’s what we do, and we do it better than everybody else.”

The Casper Star-Tribune, Jackson Hole News&Guide and Thermopolis Independent-Record were named the top Wyoming daily, large weekly and small weekly newspapers, respectively, in the Wyoming Press Association’s annual “general excellence” competition during ceremonies capping the association’s 119th annual winter meeting.

Governor Matt Mead addressed the assembly Friday night. He stressed the need to diversify the economy, so the state wouldn’t be affected by the spikes in the economy by the mineral industries. He also pushed his ENDOW initiative, which includes $15 million for the air industry in Wyoming.

An interesting sidelight to this was the report in the OpenTheBooks.com session by Adam Andrzejewskiin, a government transparency advocate, in which he noted the state flew one of its jets, which had around six stops in Wyoming, to take one person on the parole board to Cheyenne. That was the only passenger of the day according to the Open the government session.