Email: TBertling@express-news.net
Office: OM312
Phone:512-245-9144


Terry Scott Bertling is assistant managing editor/features at the San Antonio Express-News, a position she's held since December 1994. She has 30 years of experience in the newspaper business, including 27 in newspaper management. She supervises all the newspaper's feature sections, writes occasional Travel section stories and is a regular contributor to the www.mysanantonio.com "The Shopping Posse" blog. She's also half of the author selection committee (with the newspaper's book editor) for two Express-News book & author events. In the past two years, Bertling's department launched three new niche products: 210SA (for readers age 18-39), Spice magazine (for women) and Trends (for upper-income readers). In 2007, Bertling won the Hearst Eagle Award (an award given to two employees at each Hearst newspaper annually) and the Jack Douglas Award for distinguished service from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. Bertling was the first woman president of the Texas APME in 1989 and won the national APME Meritorious Service Award in 2003. At Texas State University, Bertling taught Magazine Writing in the spring of 2007 and is scheduled to teach Information Gathering and Analysis in the fall of 2007. She's continuing to work on her master's degree in Communication Arts from the University of the Incarnate Word.