#local-journalism

#local-journalism

The New York Times isn't new to working with local newsrooms. But it does appear to be getting better at the task. As my late colleague Rick Edmonds reported in 2011, the Times Company sold 16 regional newspapers it owned to invest in its own "next wave of digital development." Fourteen years later, I think we can agree the Times has reinvested in itself pretty well.

The director of Portland State University's Women's Resource Center was terminated last spring, without being given a cause. The former director, Nic Francisco-Kaho'onei, believes their Palestinian activism played a role in their firing, which had a ripple effect throughout the campus community. While PSU says it values the Women's Resource Center (and maintains it did not retaliate against Francisco-Kaho'onei), the firing came at a troubled time for the university,

The San Francisco Police Department found a missing 10-year-old boy who had gone missing on Monday morning in the Forest Hill neighborhood. The department said Julian Davis was captured on surveillance footage "wearing red plaid pajamas" at 6:15 a.m. on Monday near Vasquez and Woodside avenues. He was located as of 12:39 p.m., the department posted on social media. MISSING JUVENILE LOCATED: Julian Davis has been found. Thank you to those who assisted in spreading our alert. pic.twitter.com/ajQOq6wFOA- San Francisco Police (@SFPD) November 10, 2025

When federal immigration operations began sweeping across Los Angeles in June, our newsroom worked around the clock. I didn't have to tell them to. No one wanted to stop. One reporter's family members were being followed. Another staffer's family went into hiding - despite having legal status. Sources we'd cultivated for years suddenly wouldn't answer calls. At LA Public Press, a 14-person nonprofit newsroom led

San Jose Spotlight is an award-winning nonprofit newsroom dedicated to fearless journalism that disrupts the status quo, uplifts marginalized voices, holds power to account and paves the way for change.

Urbana, Ohio, is a small city of 11,000, where nearly three out of four voters went for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. The journalist Beth Macy, who in her previous books chronicled the widening fissures in American society by examining the opioid crisis and the aftereffects of globalization, grew up there. In Paper Girl, she returns to Urbana-a place beset by economic decline, dwindling public resources, failing schools, and the disappearance of local journalism.

Oooooooh, it was a VERY embarrassing start for the feds in the trial that could decide whether or not the National Guard can be deployed to Portland. A U.S. Department of Justice attorney admitted yesterday in front of Judge Karin Immergut that Oregon National Guard troops were in attendance at Portland's ICE facility on October 4-despite the fact that Immergut had approved a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the soldiers being there mere hours before.

The documentary Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is now streaming on PBS through the end of the year, and I highly recommend it. Watching this film, viewers follow journalists as they battle vulture capitalist hedge funds. These hedge funds buy up local newspapers and gut their staff and resources. Finally, I understand what a hedge fund does!

"We're creating a different kind of newsroom - one that listens closely to the community and delivers the coverage that matters most,"

Good morning, Portland, and welcome to the Good Morning, News rapture edition. In case you're not a person who's chronically online, today is the day Christians get swept up into the sky with Jesus, according to a large swath of people on TikTok. The sheer number of people who believe in earnest that the world as we know it will end on September 23 is puzzling,

If you're reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury' s newsreporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can't do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support!

If you're reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury' s newsreporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can't do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support!

Set at the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, it was very much in the spirit of the original, at least initially: a deadpan mockumentary centred on a megalomaniac manager (Steve Carrell's Michael Scott), who like Ricky Gervais's David Brent before him was a friend first, and a boss second and probably an entertainer third. The Office: An American Workplace ran for nine seasons, setting aside some of the original's cringe comedy aspects in favour of something with a little more heart.

GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! 👋 Expect another day of extreme "hot" with temps expected to hit 95 degrees before "cooling down" (HAHAHAHAHAAAA!) on Tuesday with a high of 92. The rest of the week is predicted to be much more reasonable, with the temps varying between the low-80s and mid-70s, but don't pack away those thongs just yet! Instead? Let's pack away some NEWS.

SB 79, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, mandates that six- to seven-story residential buildings be built within a half-mile radius of any qualifying transit stops, which include some bus stops. This is beyond what has already been mandated along linear corridors and with the housing elements plan. A single-family home neighborhood currently has about eight houses per acre. These will be near developments that cannot be stopped if this bill passes.

A dozen recently shuttered newspapers across Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again, after buyers stepped up within days to prevent the rural communities from becoming "news deserts" where little or no local media remains. The swift rescues stand out in an industry where roughly two and a half newspapers disappear each week, according to a 2024 report from the Medill School of Journalism.