Gauger, Jeff
Posted 7/27/2011 9:27:00 AM

Jeff Gauger is executive editor of The Repository and CantonRep.com in Canton, Ohio, and group editor for GateHouse Media newspapers in Ohio. He joined The Repository in August 2007. Before that, he was managing editor of the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star for nearly 21/2 years. Earlier, he worked for 17 years at the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald as a news and business reporter, metro editor and assistant managing editor/news. As a defense writer for the World-Herald, Jeff traveled to Saudi Arabia to cover the Persian Gulf War in 1991. His tenure at the World-Herald was split by a three-year sabbatical during which he and his wife were owner/publishers of two weekly newspapers in his home state of Washington. He still holds a partial interest in the weekly publishing company, which now owns five newspapers. Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He lives in North Canton, Ohio, with his wife and two daughters.