June 29, 2024, 6:11am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
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
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
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
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
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
May 18, 2024, 6:09am Clark County News
Today marks the 44th anniversary of the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens. Read story
May 11, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
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
May 4, 2024, 6:08am Clark County News
I don’t know about your line of work, but in newspapers we use a lot of colorful jargon and lingo. Sometimes these terms find their way into common use. The words uppercase and lowercase, for example, refer to where the individual pieces of type were kept in composing rooms back… Read story
April 27, 2024, 6:08am Clark County News
I am not a movie buff, but I noticed a new journalism movie is playing in theaters and getting good reviews. The film is called “Civil War” and is described by the movie website Fandango like this: Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:09am Clark County News
My office window overlooks Eighth Street west of Esther Short Park. Not an hour goes by that I don’t see a person who seems to be homeless or suffering from mental illness. Often these people will stop at a small planter near the window, which until Tuesday contained a bushy… Read story
