Over the last year or so — and especially lately — there’s been a lot of rhetoric tossed around over TriMet. Between a bad editorial, a near-miss on a labor action, and lots of Internet drama, I think it’s time for some cooler heads to prevail.
1.) The Oregonian’s editorial against measure 26-119. As of [...]

Michael Andersen recently quit his day job as a newspaper reporter to start a mini newsmagazine for the Portland area’s “bus, bike, and low-car” population.
Transportation politics — especially bike and transit politics — can be fascinating stuff, especially to a transportation geek such as myself, but for most people it’s just all so much hot [...]

Via the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, Professor Thomas Pettit describes the decentralized media world of Social Media to be a world that is largely like the pre-Gutenberg era. Petit describes the matter in a video on Vimeo:

Thomas Pettitt on the Gutenberg Parentheses from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.
The possibility that we may be [...]

“This newsstand closed due to overwhelming theft.”
Over last weekend, I attended the We Make The Media conference at the University of Oregon’s Turnbull Center. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of journalism, both in general, and in the Portland metropolitan region. I have already commented on the experience of attending the [...]

Today — assuming I get this post up before midnight — was the We Make The Media event in Portland. For those who were not following this topic, this was a conference at which the future of Portland’s media scene was the center of discussion. I’ve dabbled as a journalist and a freelance writer off [...]

The newspaper is dying. Here, in the Portland, Oregon region, our major daily paper — the Oregonian — has been cadaverously thinner and thinner by the day. Alternative biweekly Portland Tribune recently ceased publishing its Tuesday edition, boasting that their content could now be found on Fridays at the newsstand, and constantly on the web, [...]