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Writing and Audio Storytelling
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Civil Eats | February 28, 2024
A wash of Walton family funding to news media is creating echo chambers in environmental journalism, and beyond. Are editorial firewalls up to the task?
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“Third Places,” beloved businesses like arcades and coffee shops, are vanishing right when regulars need them most.
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Wondery | Feb. 20-March 27, 2019
The stock market collapse in late October, 1929 silences the Roaring Twenties, ignites a financial catastrophe, and kicks off a decade that reshapes American institutions amid labor unrest, racial tension, and the dark shadow of nativism. A six-part podcast series written and researched for American History Tellers from Wondery.
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After a deadly landslide hit Montecito, California, Rocket—a black-and-white collie mix once deemed “unadoptable” and sentenced to death—worked paw-in-hand with fireman Mike Stornetta to find survivors.
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How immigration attorney Stephen Manning is fighting exclusion orders and deportations.
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The Oregonian / Oregonlive | Dec. 12, 2016
Ten years after becoming the Portland Art Museum's director, Brian Ferriso finally feels comfortable enough to ask deep-pocketed Portlanders to do something they rarely do: Spend millions on the arts.
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Proximity Magazine | July, 2016
If I was ever going to truly connect with Melville Jacoby, the subject of my first book, Eve of a Hundred Midnights, I needed to know what the places that mattered to him actually looked like. What did they feel like? How did they sound? How had three quarters of a century shifted these places? How had those places stayed the same?
To answer these questions I traveled to China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Philippines to retrace Mel’s steps. This photo essay chronicles my expedition. -
Portland Monthly | Nov. 23, 2015
As combat raged around the world, one Oregonian became a war criminal.
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Portland Monthly | Nov. 23, 2015
The story of Hazel Ying Lee, first Chinese American woman to fly for the US military.
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For decades, the U.S., like a handful of other countries, enjoyed extensive “extraterritorial” powers in China. Among those: U.S. citizens on Chinese soil were subject to American, not Chinese law. Americans in China were tried for crimes and argued lawsuits in the United States Circuit Court for China instead of Chinese courts.
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As the Nature Conservancy works to help Minnesota’s North Woods adapt to climate change, other environmentalists worry “assisted migration” may end up changing the forest’s very nature.
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Portland Monthly | Aug. 1, 2014
One Man Gave Up His Car In Favor Of Portland’s Many Mobility Options. He Loves It. Most Of The Time.
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Gizmodo (Republished from Boom: A Journal of California) | April 18, 2014
When a sleepy California town was at the center of war in the Pacific.
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Spurred by an intensive competition, Portlanders program games in their spare time.
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Dramatic storms like Haiyan are becoming normal and affecting the poorest populations; micro-insurance promises to increase their resilience.
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Portland Afoot | Dec. 14, 2012
Bridges will tumble, rail lines will shut off and fuel will run low. But when the Big One strikes, 20-minute neighborhoods, bikes and even food carts may save Portland
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NPR / OPB Via Northwest News Network | July 24, 2012
Hundreds of immigrants from the tiny island nation of Palau attend a softball tournament that's become a major event in the lives of Pacific Islanders living in the Northwest and beyond.
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Pacific Standard | April 10, 2012
As the world deals with quakes, storms, waves and eruptions, builders realize that surviving and thriving after these threats are key components of sustainability.
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NPR / OPB via Northwest News Network | Feb. 28, 2012
Conservationists, students and maritime enthusiasts use high-tech tools like 3D photography and laser telemetry to document and preserve the Northwest's historic boats.
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NPR / OPB via Northwest News Network | Dec. 1, 2011
This public radio piece describes how grant money will fund testing of North America's first early warning system for large earthquakes as the disaster management community tries to prepare the Northwest for an inevitable megaquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
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High Country News | Oct. 26, 2011
Brian Sherrod, a government paleoseismologist, believes cities and infrastructure in eastern Washington may be far more earthquake-prone than previously realized.
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Oregon Business | April 16, 2010
Oregon has a long history with 3-D entertainment and technology. If the local industry can coalesce, some see a sharper future.
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