William Osborne is the senior editor in charge of the editorial and opinion department of The San Diego Union-Tribune and is a member of the newspaper's editorial board. He writes on a wide range of local, state and national issues.
Osborne was named senior editor of the department by Union-Tribune editor Karin Winner in January 1999. Prior to that, he had been the executive news editor since the merger of The San Diego Union and the San Diego Tribune in February 1992.
Osborne's career with Copley Newspapers spans more than 30 years. As a reporter at the Tribune beginning in 1971, he covered a variety of local government beats. He served as a politics writer, then politics editor, of the Tribune before joining the staff of the Copley News Service Washington bureau in 1985. He returned to the Tribune in 1987 as assistant managing editor for news and held that position until the merger with the Union.
Osborne is a 1971 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He lives in the Mission Hills neighborhood of San Diego.
