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KOIN TV Workers Allege Outrageous Union-Busting Tactics from Management

Even after a recent federal court order mandated KOIN owners to bargain with the union, they’ve refused to come to the table.
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KOIN-TV’s videographers, photographers, engineers, directors, and other production staff have always worked hard to get Portland’s news out to television screens across the city. But for the last several years, employees have had to put up with more than grueling overnight shifts and the typical ups and downs of the news industry.  Since massive media […]

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A New True Crime Podcast from KGW Carefully Tells the Story of Murdered Trans Vancouver Teen Nikki Kuhnhausen

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KGW’s Should Be Alive podcast documents the life and death of Nikki Kuhnhausen. COURTESY NIKKI KUHNHAUSEN’S FAMILY Our society’s obsession with true crime narratives can often lead down a dark path—whether that’s the creepy romanticizing of murderers or ugly stereotyping of victims or the blind endorsement of abusive policing strategies. What’s often lacking in those […]

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Center for Investigative Reporting Digs Into Portland’s Problem With Policing Homelessness

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A homeless encampment alongside Portland’s Laurelhurst Park. Alex Zielinski In 2018, an Oregonian investigation found that more than half of all arrests made by Portland police the previous year were of unhoused people. That trend hasn’t changed in the years since—and a recent episode of Reveal, a podcast by the Center for Investigative Reporting, helps […]

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Facebook Is Having Trouble Finding Worthwhile Reporting in News Deserts It Helped Create

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Local news is in crisis, partly because of Facebook. Alexander Koerner / Getty Images Facebook is not the only reason there’s a local news crisis in America. But the rise of Facebook is definitely a major contributor to a massive die-off in community-rooted journalistic enterprises around the country that, according to the Associated Press, has […]

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