Just Do the JobWill Bristol never intended to be editor-in-chief of Eyewitness News in downtown Portland. He had planned to coast through his senior year as an investigative reporter, build his portfolio and go out to a newspaper somewhere to start his career. When there was no one else to do but an unqualified white supremacist who wanted to dismantle the newsroom piece by piece, Will knew he had to step up. He was terrified he wasn't good enough,...

NEWSROOM RULES: STAY SAFE. GET THE STORY. When the college basketball team traveled to Boise for a Thanksgiving tournament, the sports editor thought she did everything right: social distancing, testing before the trip, masks, no parties. But no one told her, or the team, or the alumni aboard the trip, the truth: a coach came down with COVID and had to be left behind on a ventilator in Boise. The COVID numbers are rising in Portland. At the university. And...

Called HomeIt gets messy when your loyalties are split. For all of his life, Ben Waters knew he would grow up, find a woman among his tribe, marry and have children. His grandfather, the chairman of the Yakama Tribal Council, had instilled it into him from day one. It was his duty. But then? He went away to college, because the tribe needed educated members, and he found a woman - and she wasn't Yakama. And he walked away from her. But now, the...

A Conservative VoiceLuke Kent had come to the student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland with a chip on his shoulder. He freely admitted it: he thought EWN was a bunch of ignorant liberals who were going to hell if they didn't repent. And he told his boss that the first day of class. She'd just laughed and asked if he was staying or going.He stayed. How could he not? These liberals flakes were the first people to accept that he was blind and...