FORA.tv Speaker - David Boardman

Dave Boardman serves as executive editor of The Seattle Times. He has oversight and responsibility for the news department of Washington state's largest newspaper, and for its Web site, seattletimes.com. As an editor for The Times, Boardman has directed two Pulitzer Prize-winning team projects and edited six other stories that were Pulitzer finalists.

Before joining The Times in 1983, Boardman was a reporter and editor at several papers in the Northwest, and worked on a construction project in Liberia, West Africa.

Boardman is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has a graduate degree from the University of Washington.