Background

Soptelean, Caleb Michael was born on March 18, 1970 in Alliance, Ohio, United States. Son of Walter and Margaret Elaine Soptelean.

Career

Reporter, Harrison News-Herald, Cadiz, Ohio, 1987-1988, Reporter, Bitterroot Star, Stevensville, Montana, 1991-1993, Reporter, Wickenburg (Arizona) Sun, 1996-2000, Reporter, Sonoran News, Cave Creek, Arizona, 2000-2001, Reporter, Desert Advocate, New River, AZ 2001-2003, Editor, Foothills Focus, New River, AZ, 2003, Reporter, Kingman Daily Miner, Kingman, AZ 2003-2005, Reporter, Today's News-Herald, Lake Havasu City, AZ., 2005, Reporter, Mustang Times, Mustang, Okla., 2005, Editor, Midwest City Sun, Midwest City, Okla. 2005-2006, Copy editor, Progress-Index, Petersburg, Va., 2008-2009, Reporter, Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, MT 2010-2011, Reporter, Bigfork Eagle, 2013-2014, Reporter, The Valley Banner, Elkton, VA 2014-2017, Reporter, The Valley Journal, Polson, MT 2016-present

Works

• Award-winning photo

  • Montana Newspaper Association | Better Newspaper Contest

    (Mel Ruder Photograph of the Year)

    2014

Interests

• Other Interests

  Hiking, photography.

Connections

father:

Walter Soptelean

mother:

Margaret Elaine Soptelean