Supporting Local Journalism
Oregon News Exploration aims to provide high-quality, community-first reporting and partnerships to disrupt misinformation and target news gaps across the state.
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Outreach coordinator wanted
Oregon News Exploration is seeking to hire a contractor for outreach to Black journalists/storytellers/creators in the greater Portland area. The contractor will assist ONE in convening a small group discussion in early May 2024 to talk about the future of the Black information ecosystem in Portland. This conversation will be informed by our own research,…
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Why do these folks want to talk to us?
WHY: This question often comes up when Mike asks people from the Portland area’s Black communities if they’d like to participate in our outreach efforts. We hope to learn where Oregonians get their local news and information, and what they think about it. But why does a group of white journalists care about improving the…
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How should local journalists respond to misinformation?
When it comes to dealing with misinformation, different news organizations are trying different things, seeing what works. So at Oregon News Exploration, we wanted to learn whatever others were learning, and also understand what the role of journalism might be when it comes to the beating back of rumors, conjecture and lies. In 2021, for…
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Update on our listening bonanza
And somehow we’ve arrived at November! Lots to report of the last two months of start-up hustle here at ONE. True to our word, we’ve been deeply involved in outreach to communities, hosting a series of conversations about ways to get Oregonians the trusted, fact-based local information they need. It’s a lot. Those efforts include…
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Hey, Oregon! Want to chat?
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a month since Lee and I returned from our East Coast trip and started planning the next phase for Oregon News Exploration. The training we got in New York was both energizing and exhausting. The American Journalism Project staff cautioned that they were asking members of the four…
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We’ve been selected to join AJP’s incubator program
It was just a month ago that Oregon News Exploration received the good news that the Oregon Community Foundation would award us a $100,000 grant to support our continued work. Now, there’s more good news. Today, it was also announced that the project was selected to join the inaugural local news incubator, led by the…