News When Portland's KOIN 6 News changed ownership last year, speculation swirled in media circles about staff shakeups at the station. Well hold onto your microphone, because new details have emerged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by former KOIN news director Jeff Alan. And it's a bombshell. Among the allegations: That beloved long-time sports anchor Ed Whelan was fired due to discrimination by the ...   More

News Today the Wall Street Journal and media blogs picked up yesterday's news about the recent bankruptcy filing of one of Oregon's largest daily newspapers, the Bend Bulletin.The Bulletin says it will continue operations. American newspaper bankruptcies are a dime a dozen these days, but what makes this one national news is that the paper's editor, John Costa, wrote an editorial blaming Bank of America ...   More

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News Earlier this month, The Oregonian announced an online partnership with nine organizations to provide news, blogs and features through the newspaper’s website. The new Oregonian News Network, the p   More

News On Wednesday, Dec. 26, when most of you will be shuffling back to work or heading to the shopping mall to snag the stuff nobody wanted to give anyone for Christmas, I'll be doing my best to NOT look like a total jackass on KATU-TV's wonderfully, wacky morning show AMNW (which, if you've noticed recently has morphed into this weird hybrid of The David Letterman Show and Pee-Wee Herman's Playhouse). Yes, ...   More

News The January issue of Esquire arrived in my mailbox on Friday with a special gift: a hilarious rant (sadly, not available online) by section editor David Katz that might be about the Stumptown Coffee in the Ace Hotel. The evidence is circumstantial: Katz complains that he is forced to wait interminably in a cafe attached to his hotel in "Seattle or Portland or Brooklyn" (just when did that trio start ...   More

News Steve Engelberg, one of The Oregonian's three managing news editors, is leaving the paper to be managing editor of ProPublica, a new national investigative reporting enterprise. More details of the move are here. But one reporter with The Oregonian said the paper's staff was stunned when they got the email today from Editor Sandy Rowe about Engelberg's move. The newsroom insider said many colleagues ...   More

News KGW sent out a press release yesterday announcing a "historic press conference" at their studio this morning. It was pretty mysterious, promising only "an announcement of a historic addition to KGW's News Gathering Operation." Anticipation, as you can imagine, was pretty high as we all gathered on a set at the news station. KGW president and general manager DJ Wilson welcomed us, and then dropped ...   More

News Just over a year ago, the founding editor-in-chief of Oregon Health News, Diane Lund-Muzikant, left the investigative trade journal saying she was fired. (The dispute is detailed here in "Surgical Strike".) Lund-Muzikant eventually sued the organization that oversees the health-care publication, and in August she settled with the group, Oregon Health Forum. Last Friday, Lund-Muzikant's replacement, ...   More

News “I'm writing to you out of desperation” was the subject line of an e-mail sent recently to WWire from Western Oregon Journal Editor-in-Chief Gerry Blakney. The budding journalist at Western Oregon University's newspaper is desperate because he says school administrators are trampling on the paper's First Amendment rights. Last week, Blakney says he discovered the student media's ...   More