A native Georgian, Rome News-Tribune publisher Otis M. Raybon Jr. has held management and executive positions at newspapers in Griffin, Valdosta, Americus, Dalton and Rome. He has been with News Publishing Co. since 1998.
He graduated from Gordon College with an associate of arts degree in 1976, and from Georgia State University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Busines Administration degree in marketing.
Raybon is a member of the Rome Rotary Club and First Baptist Church of Rome. He is also a graduate of the Geogia Academy for Economic Development.
Boards on which Raybon has served include those at Coosa Valley Technical College, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Griffin Technical College, Rome-Floyd Development Authority and the Technical College System of Georgia.
He was chairman of the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce in 2003.
Raybon and his wife, the former Barbara Henderson, have two adult sons, Tilman and William.