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Columbian Editor

Columbian editor emeritus Lou Brancaccio, left, and current editor Craig Brown catch up at the Eighth Street Starbucks Coffee in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday.

From the Newsroom: Catching up with Lou Brancaccio

Columbian editor emeritus Lou Brancaccio, left, and current editor Craig Brown catch up at the Eighth Street Starbucks Coffee in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday.

July 20, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

Just in time for the primary election, he’s back! Read story

From the Newsroom: We’re in League with this group

July 13, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

The League of Women Voters is a 104-year-old civic organization that works to empower voters and defend democracy. The organization counts men and women among its members and is active in Clark County and in Washington. It is up to several different things that are newsworthy. Read story

A dramatic sunset illuminates the campground at Pacific Beach State Park on the Olympic Peninsula. It rained five minutes later.

From the Newsroom: Try a loop trip this summer

A dramatic sunset illuminates the campground at Pacific Beach State Park on the Olympic Peninsula. It rained five minutes later.

July 6, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

It’s a holiday weekend so I think I’ll take a break from writing gloomy stories about news and newspapers and write a happy story about summer vacations. Read story

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 The staff at The Everett Herald before the layoff announcement.

From the Newsroom: Bad news for newspapers

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 The staff at The Everett Herald before the layoff announcement.

June 29, 2024, 6:11am Clark County News

Pacific Northwest newspapers have seen a steady erosion in advertising and print circulation for more than 15 years now, but this year has been especially ugly. So thank you for your support of local journalism. More than ever, we need subscriptions to continue to provide robust community news about Clark… Read story

From the Newsroom: We hired a jolly good fellow

June 22, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

I took a long Father’s Day weekend to visit my amazing daughter and her family in Medford, Ore., and also was off on Juneteenth, so there hasn’t been a lot going on in my office this week. Instead, I will use this space to catch you up on a couple… Read story

Local telephone books from December 2010, left, and June 2024, right, are another sign of how print readers have moved online.

From the Newsroom: Phone books and newspapers

Local telephone books from December 2010, left, and June 2024, right, are another sign of how print readers have moved online.

June 15, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

In my job, I think a lot about how most people these days would rather get their news and information online than from a printed newspaper. People talk to me about it, and a look at our circulation figures confirm it. Our digital subscriber base has exceeded our print subscriber… Read story

From the Newsroom: Fighting computer gremlins

June 1, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

I’ve been very proud of our news staff lately. Our Sports team traveled around the state to cover the spring championships. Scott Hewitt, Taylor Balkom and freelancer James Rexroad offered a strong local Memorial Day story about a missing World War II soldier’s remains being identified and getting a military… Read story

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From the Newsroom: Working on our writing

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May 25, 2024, 6:11am Clark County News

One of the good things we have going for us here at The Columbian is the volunteer work done by Dee Anne Finken, a retired journalist and journalism instructor at Clark College. As I began writing this column, she was holding one of her monthly writing workshops for our reporters.… Read story

The May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens generated worldwide media coverage. But how would it be covered in the internet era?

From the Newsroom: How we’d cover the Mount St. Helens eruption today

The May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens generated worldwide media coverage. But how would it be covered in the internet era?

May 18, 2024, 6:09am Clark County News

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens. Read story

Teletypes machines were used in a variety of industries but in newsrooms, they carried wire stories to local newspapers like The Columbian.

From the newsroom: Here’s more Columbian jargon

Teletypes machines were used in a variety of industries but in newsrooms, they carried wire stories to local newspapers like The Columbian.

May 11, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

Last week I wrote about the jargon that we use in the newsroom. Some of it is common to newspapers, while other terms seem to be invented here. The jargon comes and goes as times and technology changes. When I started freelancing for The Columbian back in the 1980s, a… Read story