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Karen E. WallScholastic editor
Asbury Park Press
Neptune, N.J.

Karen E. Wall is the scholastic editor at the Asbury Park Press in Neptune, N.J. She graduated from Michigan State University in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. She worked on her high school newspaper, The Flame, briefly, as a junior at Brick Township High School in Brick, N.J., and worked on MSU's student newspaper, The State News, during her senior year.

Karen was the first copyediting intern at the Asbury Park Press, working there in the summer of 1987, then was hired full-time in 1988. She worked on the news copy desk until June 1994, when she transferred to the sports copy desk. In November 1995 she headed west to The Sacramento Bee, where she worked until August 1997. She returned to Asbury Park in September 1997 and joined Rally coordinator Joe Zedalis in handling the high school sports report in September 1998.

She and her husband, John Bush, have a young daughter, Emily Jo.