Liz Kellar, Editor

Liz Kellar was named editor of the Lincoln News Messenger in August 2007. A Foreign Service brat whose parents took her to such exotic locales as Tunisia, Senegal and Rome, she graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in politics. Kellar got her start as a music critic for Sacramento This Week before deciding that covering the likes of U2 and the Meat Puppets was glamorous but underpaid. She then worked for a variety of daily publications in California, including the Auburn Journal, the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian and the Santa Cruz Sentinel. She also spent a very happy year as the food critic for Sacramento News & Review. Kellar moved to Texas in 2002, spending three years at the Kerrville Daily Times. Eventually, however, she decided to return to her Northern California roots and moved back to Lincoln, her husband's hometown. Prior to the News Messenger, Kellar worked at the Sacramento Bee. She is thrilled to be back in community journalism and loves working a mere two blocks from home. What Kellar loves about working for a community paper, she said, is that it actually depends on her, unlike larger publications. "I missed the scale and pace of a smaller paper," she said. "I want to make the paper as local as possible and to cover as much as possible." Kellar lives with her husband Tom and 12-year-old son, Spencer, and three mixed-breed mutts. In her spare time, she enjoys reading trashy mysteries, hunting treasures at thrift stores and garage sales, and when she's feeling energetic, snowshoeing in the winter.