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The city of Portland has filed a lawsuit against a local journalist and news outlet in an attempt to block the public release of information about which businesses were required to pay into a voter-approved climate program, records show.
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In a fundraising break during our Fall Fund Drive, JPR News Director Erik Neumann and I got to talking about the role JPR plays in mentoring and developing early-career journalists. Erik reminded me that I once described this role as being similar to that of a teaching hospital, albeit in a different field. I’ve been thinking about this lately because we’re in the midst of recruiting and hiring a new regional reporter for our news team.
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Les Zaitz started working for the Oregonian when wire service printers still went clickety-clack all day and all night. He will finish his career with the…
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It's one of the sadder stories in broadcasting history: the first FM radios were rendered completely useless when the federal government MOVED the entire…
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You really begin to appreciate the time-consuming work of digitizing old media when you peruse the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program. With a few key words,…
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Andrew Solomon has a knack for getting into the middle of things. In previous books, he helped us understand depression, appreciate the complexity of…
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The tribulations of the journalism business are well documented, and affect outlets big and small. The student newspaper The Siskiyou at Southern Oregon…
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It's a tough business climate for journalism. How do you get people to buy the information you offer when they can get so much online, for free? The…
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If you hang out at the city council meeting and send a few tweets about the proceedings, does that make you a journalist? That's a question the Oregon…