Publisher of The Peninsula Gateway in Gig Harbor and the Puyallup Herald since 2001. Born and raised in Minnesota, he comes from a long line of community newspaper publishers. While earning BA degrees in philosophy, English and journalism at the University of Minnesota, he worked the sports and tri-state desks for the Duluth News Tribune. After college in 1970, he took over his father’s newspaper until marrying a Canadian and moving to British Columbia in 1975.

In Canada, Le Masurier served as editor of the Comox District Free Press on Vancouver Island, winning several regional and national writing awards. He eventually became General Manager of the Free Press’ parent company, E.W. Bickle Ltd. and assumed the title of Island Manager when Thomson Newspapers Canada bought the Bickle papers in 1989. He was promoted to Vice-president and COO of Thomson Newspapers Canada, Community Publications Division in 1991. In 1995 he took a position as Editorial Director of Black Press, moving back to the United States in 1998 to start the Federal Way Mirror, a Sound Publishing Inc. newspaper, which is a subsidiary of Black Press. In 2000 he took over as President of Sound Publishing.

Le Masurier is an active Rotarian, a director of the Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce and sits on several other community boards in Gig Harbor and Puyallup. He’s served as a United Way director, director of the B.C. Summer Games, advisory board member of both the Federal Way Advancing Leadership program and Highline Community College. He was a founding director of the B.C. Press Council and has served on newspaper-industry boards in Canada and Washington. He lives in Gig Harbor with his wife, Fran.