Complicated and vital
Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 2:00pm.

It's true the O gathers most of the news in Oregon, and it should, given it actually has a staff of gatherers. A long-ago KGW news director once admitted that the basic job of an ND in Portland was to rip stories out of the morning paper and hand them out to reporters. From my viewing, not much has changed in 25 years. except that maybe TV has fewer people to handle all those clips.
Back then the O relied on housewives -- some the equal of the fulltime folks -- radio reporters and other part-timers to gather, or at least tip the paper to, small town and downstate news, which then got to AP and around the state. That coverage was mostly dumped with a management decision to focus on the metro area the big advertisers, namely M&F, wanted to reach.

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