Salem, Oregon News
Uncategorized Reporter Rachel Alexander outside Four Corners Elementary (Fred Joe/Special to Salem Reporter) In my experience, most people think about their local school board on two occasions: when they’re considering a controversial issue (like last year’s changes to school boundaries) and during election season. The rest of the time, the seven[Read More…]
Like me, you probably have never heard of Warroad, Minnesota. It’s a rural town of about 1,800 people and, as of May, it is a community without a newspaper. The Warroad Pioneer had been the local news voice for more than 120 years, and its recent death made news in[Read More…]
Les Zaitz, editor and CEO, Salem Reporter [Subscribe to Salem Reporter HERE ] The message was irresistible. Sonia Boeger, a recent graduate of South Salem High School, wondered if we had any internships at Salem Reporter. She worked on her high school newspaper and the Saxon yearbook. She plans to[Read More…]
Saphara Harrell and her Aussie, Crosby. Harrell will be covering community events as a reporter for Salem Reporter. Salem is about to get a lot more news about the community as Salem Reporter expands its news team. In a time when newspapers and news organizations are cutting coverage, this expansion[Read More…]
Lore Christopher, retired director of human resources for the Oregon Legislature. (Photo courtesy of Keizertimes) The name kept cropping up in the harassment scandal at the Capitol: Lore Christopher. She wasn’t considered a central character. The allegations about sexual harassment and discrimination by legislative employees and legislators themselves roiled the[Read More…]
When I asked for your reviews of our work so far, I was ready for anything. In this era, folks are pretty free with their opinions – and sharing them. As a relatively young enterprise, Salem Reporter is still feeling its journalistic legs in town. But what we received so[Read More…]
Les Zaitz, CEO and editor of Salem Reporter. (David Zaitz Photography) About six months ago, Salem Reporter came to life in town and we haven’t caught our breath yet. We started in a time of tremendous uncertainty in the news profession. Across the country, newsrooms continue to trim back or[Read More…]
Uncategorized (Moriah Ratner/Special to Salem Reporter) There are times as a reporter I feel I take more than I give. I felt that way recently. Last week I met a family still in grief over a loved one who died. I drove to Portland one night to an office, and on[Read More…]
Aubrey Wieber, a reporter for Salem Reporter. I’ve always found it puzzling that we journalists get to dive head first into peoples’ indiscretions yet we ourselves remain guarded. We can challenge the factual accuracy of an elected official’s statements yet we so often hide from criticism of our own work.[Read More…]
I was planning to work late on Tuesday. I wasn’t quite planning to finish nearly 12 hours of reporting by filing a story just after 11 p.m. This week saw the Salem-Keizer School Board approve a plan that had been in the works for months to change attendance boundaries for[Read More…]
