This is my favorite time of year to run in Corvallis. Eugene may be Tracktown, USA, and Portland has its Forest Park, but for the number of great runs less than five minutes from your front door, Corvallis is hard to beat. My three favorites? Bald Hill, west of the city. The Willamette Riverfront...
If you live anywhere near Oregon, you’d have to be living in a cone of silence to not be familiar with “Powered by Orange.” Powered by Orange is the social marketing juggernaut that’s boosting the image and awareness of Oregon State University far and wide. The apparent success of the campaign was summed up...
Here’s the news release by LBCC’s Lori Fluge-Brunker on the Commuter staff awards from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, which presented the awards at last week’s Collegiate Day at OSU: Linn-Benton Community College’s student newspaper, The Commuter, won five awards at the annual Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Collegiate Day held May 8 at Oregon...
Members of the Commuter staff will be at Oregon State University on Friday learning more about journalism and celebrating their accomplishments at the annual awards program put on by the Oregon Newspapers Foundation. “Collegiate Day” this year will feature seminars on newspaper design, internships, online journalism, open records/meeting laws, and sports writing. It runs...
Frank Blethen, publisher of the Seattle Times, will deliver the annual Tom McCall Lecture Thursday, April 2, in OSU’s LaSells Stewart Center, Southwest 26th Street and Western Boulevard in Corvallis. The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. The topic of his talk is “Reclaiming America’s Independent Press and Saving Democracy.” With the newspaper industry reeling,...
