My colleague Monica Samayoa was featured in @pbsnews.org segment on the Portland Clean Energy Fund. Featuring Mayor Wilson's reasoning for using PCEF $$ on Moda renovations. Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjLY...
I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about.
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We've now obtained the 911 calls related to this death. They indicate the injured man possibly had a head injury of some type.
Big news for everyone who believes the public should know what their government is doing: The only bill Gov. Tina Kotek is considering vetoing this year is the bipartisan effort to gut public meetings law despite opposition from journalists and warnings from the state ethics commission.
I spent my Local News Day talking to past and present employees of the Roseburg News Review about the closure of that paper, announced yesterday.
I can't emphasize enough how much local news is becoming a thing of the past.
Close-up of a strike sign that reads: "ProPublica workers: Not shutting up."
@propublica.org management: This is your sign to give us a fair contract now. We’re not shutting up.
OPB's regional positions, including an Eastern Oregon reporting position *cough*, are still open. Do the kind of stories that no one else does for a living wage and union representation!
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CONGRATS to partner Tony Schick and Monica Samayoa of @opb.org for winning this year’s Goldsmith Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their amazing project Power Struggle: What Stalled the Northwest’s Push for Green Energy? It was a pleasure to have worked together on this important work!!
MLB scoreboard of Pirates vs Mets that reads P: 0 NY: 0 or could be seen as “Ponyo” (LET’S GO METS!!!)
An underrated Miyazaki classic #LGM
Today, we wrote to @propublica.org’s board of directors to inform them that our unit overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike and urge them to instruct management to agree to a fair contract now.
Read our letter here:
www.propublicaguild.org/updates/to-t...
Sometimes the best part of a week is when it’s over
I think most Chicanos have only a nebulous concept of what Cesar Chavez actually did (in terms of his work) and operate more on the level of "every culture has their guy they make marble busts of, and this one is ours" and the latter houses weird anxieties re: his legacy and cultural myth-making
More journalism job openings at OPB -- share far/wide:
Eastern Oregon Reporter
SW Washington Reporter
Multimedia Journalist
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Oregon peeps! Help us put the pressure on. We need MORE transparency in government, not less.
A great read on an undercovered part of Northwest history. Also written by one of my former college professors lol
The January arrest of Maria Trinidad Loya Medina has left her teenage children largely on their own as their dad recovers from a stroke and surgery. Her case underscores the devastating ripple effects ICE arrests can have on families.
Huge crowd here at the Capitol of Salem-Keizer school students who walked out today to protest ICE and support the Immigration Justice Package under consideration in the Oregon Legislature
Live coverage at statesmanjournal.com
City councilors who broke Oregon's public meeting law support changing Oregon's public meeting law.
www.salemreporter.com/2026/02/24/s...
Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen:
A defining feature of the 2nd Trump admin has been its treatment of immigrants, & the effects of its mass deportation campaign are being deeply felt in the NW. We talk with three NW News Network journalists who cover immigration in OR & WA about their reporting:
A Hillsboro data center operated by social media company TikTok, for example, is saving $5.6 million this year through Oregon's enterprise zone program even though it has just 11 local employees. That works out to more than $500,000 in tax breaks for each worker.
www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
A bill is advancing in Salem that would blow a hole in the public's right to know, according to the top official who protects Oregonians’ public meetings law, Susan Myers. @SPJOregon, @OPB and others strongly oppose #orleg #orpol #foia
the world now wants to know: what does Giorgio Moroder think?
Not enough people are talking about how Alysa Liu won a gold medal by skating to Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park." Not just the single, but a truncated version of the 18-minute suite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIr8...
In: reporters who “love to schmooze”
Out: critical thinking skills
why would anyone want to leave cleveland dot com?
Oregon journos! Early bird pricing on the Region 10 contest expires at 9 p.m. SUNDAY (Feb. 15).
Get your entries in by 8:59 p.m., and you're GOLD. That's $30 per entry for member pricing, $35 for nonmembers.
After that, it's $35 per entry for SPJ members and $40 per entry for non-SPJ members.
if you remember the FBI + ICE + local raid on a horse race track in Wilder, Idaho that detained hundreds of families (including many kids & U.S. citizens) the @acluidaho.bsky.social just announced a lawsuit.
The complaint is just as disturbing as previous reporting www.aclu.org/press-releas...
Dave Miller shares his story for our “what our audience doesn’t know” series.
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