Joe is also the editor and publisher of the Capital Press, the West’s agricultural weekly newspaper, where he has managed editors and reporters in four states since 2008. He produces the weekly Oregon Capital Insider e-newsletter and has been involved since the beginning in the creation of the Oregon Capital Bureau – a collaboration between EO Media Group, Pamplin Media Group and now Salem Reporter. He launched his newspaper career at community and agricultural newspapers in the Midwest, and was previously the metro editor of the Moline Dispatch.