Dec 12 Three News Outlets Form Oregon Capital Bureau to Expand Coverage

In Oregon, newspaper publishers have recognized the need to provide their communities with better and deeper coverage of state government and politics. Their answer was the creation of the Oregon Capital Bureau.

“This collaboration will dramatically boost our in-depth coverage of state government,” Pamplin Media Group president Mark Garber said in a press release.

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Dec 6 Using Venture Philanthropy, American Journalism Project Seeks to Sustain Vital News Coverage

Damien Willis

On The Media

It was 2015 when an idea first began to germinate for Elizabeth Green, the co-founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization devoted to American education.

“I’d been thinking that the way philanthropy organizes in the education sector had lessons that could be applied to journalism philanthropy sector that was emerging slowly at the time—too slowly, I thought,” she said.

Based in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Damien Willis is a newspaper reporter and communications professional. He generally writes about the ways we pass our time in the 21st century.