Jeb Bladine, President

Jon E. “Jeb” Bladine is 3rd generation president of Oregon Lithoprint, Inc. and publisher of the News-Register in McMinnville. He is one of four family members who have served as president of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, and a former member of the National Newspaper Association Board of Directors. He helped launch the Oregon Public Information Partnership in response to financial challenges facing newspapers from the COVID-19 pandemic. He and long-time spouse, the late Michelle Bladine, have two grown children who are active board members of the family business, and their son, Ossie Bladine, is a 4th generation newspaper leader as executive editor and associate publisher of the News-Register.

Chuck Humble

Charles Humble is a retired newspaper journalist and public relations professional. Humble spent 18 years in newspaper journalism at various Oregon publications. He left the Oregonian where he was the business columnist to enter public relations, joining a startup agency which was later acquired by Waggener Worldwide. His tenure there included two years in London as lead on the Microsoft account team. Married, he and his wife, Lynne, reside in Vancouver, Washington.

Rusty Rae, Executive Director/Secretary

Rusty Rae is a writer and photographer for the News-Register, returning to McMinnville after a 40-plus year hiatus, when corporate work in the field of technical training took him around the world several times. He’s managed large and small groups and served on a number of non-profit boards in several roles. A graduate of Linfield College with an MBA from the University of Washington, he has significant experience with corporate governance and brings the steady hand of servant leader discipleship to the organization.

Jodie DeJonge

Jodie DeJonge is the managing editor at The Mercury News and the Bay Area News Group based in San Jose, California. She was a longtime editor and news executive with The Associated Press, and previously worked as the metro editor at the Seattle Times and as managing editor at the News-Register in McMinnville, Oregon. Before returning the U.S. in 2020, Jodie was an investigative editor at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project in Bosnia, a top editor at two different publications in Cambodia, and an editor and writing coach in China.

OPIP Advisory Board

Terrence “Terry” Petty

Terrence “Terry” Petty’s journalism career spans four decades – from his first reporter/photographer job at the Addison County Independent in Middlebury, Vt. in 1977, to The Associated Press (AP), which he joined in 1982, after hopscotching through the East at several newspaper stops. Petty spent 35 years with The AP. As a Germany-based AP foreign correspondent from 1987-97, Petty wrote about the fall of the Berlin Wall, pro-democracy revolutions and international diplomacy that ended the Cold War. Until retirement in 2017, Petty led The AP’s news operations in Oregon as News Editor. Petty has a BA degree in history from the University of Vermont. He’s a Vermont native, as is his wife, Christina. They and their son, Tristan, reside in Portland. In retirement, Petty has been writing narrative nonfiction books about Germany. His latest is Nazis At The Watercooler: War Criminals In Postwar German Government Agencies, released in November 2024 by University of Nebraska Press.