Kathy Best is managing editor, digital news and innovation, at The Seattle Times. Best joined The Seattle Times in February 2007, simultaneously making a leap across the country and across the print/digital divide. She works with a staff of 25 producers, designers and engineers at seattletimes.com and is the bridge between the Times newsroom and its online operations.

Before joining the Times, Best was the assistant managing editor for Sunday, national and foreign news at The Baltimore Sun; assistant managing editor/metro at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and assistant managing editor/metro at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Prior to her move into editing, Best was a reporter for 15 years in Illinois and Washington, D.C. She and her husband, investigative reporter Andrew Schneider, live in Des Moines, Wash.