WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2018
LOCAL
New publisher
takes reins of
Hermiston Herald
By ANTONIO SIERRA
STAFF WRITER
Chris Rush will be new
to Eastern Oregon, but he’s
no stranger to community
journalism.
The EO Media Group
recently named Rush as the
regional publisher and reve-
nue director of the Hermis-
ton Herald, East Oregonian,
Blue Mountain Eagle and
Wallowa County Chieftain.
He started Tuesday and will
live in Pendleton.
He will replace Kath-
ryn Brown, who has been
publisher of the Hermiston
Herald and East Oregonian
since 2013 and will begin
developing The Other Ore-
gon magazine for EO Media
Group this summer.
Rush, now a 25-year vet-
eran of the journalism indus-
try and native of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, had an inauspi-
cious start to his career.
Equipped with a bache-
lor’s degree from Oklahoma
State University and a mas-
ter’s degree from the Univer-
sity of Central Oklahoma,
Rush had trouble breaking
into the field as a young man
in 1993. He had sent doz-
ens of résumés to various
news organizations when he
applied for a reporting posi-
tion with the Sapulpa Daily
Herald, a newspaper based
in a Tulsa suburb of about
20,000 people.
Noticing his experience
selling furniture and men’s
clothing, the Daily Her-
ald instead offered Rush an
advertising job, which paid a
commission in addition to a
base salary.
“At that time, I had just
gotten married and that
sounded good to me,” he said.
His foot in the door, Rush
crisscrossed Oklahoma and
Arkansas as a reporter, edi-
tor, advertising director and
publisher.
Rush moved to Aber-
deen, Washington, in 2008
to become the publisher of
The Daily World and after a
brief stint back in Oklahoma
became publisher of The
World in Coos Bay in 2015.
Although Rush’s career
had been made in print jour-
nalism, in 2017 he retired
from the newspaper busi-
ness and bought a coffee
Chris Rush
shop in Reedsport, which he
ran with his wife, Sheryl, for
the past eight months.
It was a longtime dream,
but running the Rogue River
Coffee Co. was also a rigor-
ous enterprise.
“I’ve got a lot of respect
for anyone who owns a busi-
ness,” he said.
All the while, Rush kept
tabs on his old profession.
He had originally thought
about taking an interim pub-
lisher position somewhere
to supplement the coffee
shop’s income, but when the
publishing job in Pendleton
opened up, he couldn’t pass
on the opportunity.
For their part, EO Media
Group officials think Rush is
the right person for the job.
“Chris is uniquely qual-
ified to take on this leader-
ship role for our company,”
said Heidi Wright, EO
Media Group chief operat-
ing officer, in a statement.
“He is excited to be working
with a family-held media
company that shares his
passion for the communi-
ties we serve and the news-
papers we produce.”
In her own written state-
ment, Brown enumerated
the qualities that made Rush
a worthy successor.
“Chris is also a highly
intelligent, friendly and pos-
itive person,” she said. “He
shares our family’s values
and a passion for commu-
nity journalism, and I expect
that he will be a great fit here
in Eastern Oregon.”
Rush said he’s always
been attracted to living and
working in small communi-
ties and he intends to keep the
media group’s four Eastern
Oregon newspapers focused
on community news.
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Hermiston’s
Des-
ert Rose Ministries was
thrilled with the Stuff the
Bus effort by Leadership
Hermiston Class 21.
Participants collected
donations April 7 to dis-
tribute to Desert Rose Min-
istries, Agape House, the
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tion and the Domestic Vio-
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For information on Des-
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Donations needed
Donations are being
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May 12.
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Challenge for teens
A faith-based experi-
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The Silver Ring Thing is
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Desert Rose Ministries
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to respond. The program is
open to those 18 and older.
The session is Thursday
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Main St., Hermiston.
The program uses the
ACT acronym — Acknowl-
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adult or professional. Kristi
Haynes, a trainer with more
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541-667-9566 or search
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