If you’re reading this sentence, it’s probably because you value local news. So you may be surprised to hear that local news is collapsing around the country. The number of journalists has dropped 60% since 2000, and thousands of communities have either no newspaper or ghost newspapers that provide barely any local coverage. We at […]
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Censored 2020: Through the Looking Glass
Every year, Project Censored scours the landscape for the most important stories that the mainstream corporate media somehow missed and every year the task seems to get a bit stranger. Curiouser and Curiouser, as suggested in the subtitle of this year’s volume of its work, Censored 2020: Through The Looking Glass, which includes its full […]
Here are the Entities Helping Buy The Bulletin
A handful of Central Oregonians have committed funds to help an Oregon company purchase two local newspapers. EO Media Groupโwhich owns numerous Oregon newspapers, including the East Oregonian, the Chinook Observer and othersโwon an auction to purchase both The Bulletin and the Redmond Spokesman for a purchase price of $3.65 million, beating out Adams Publishing Group, […]
Bend’s Locally Owned Weekly Newspaper Wins Five Awards in State Contest
The Source Weekly has won a total of five awards in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Associationโs annual Associate Member Publications Contest. After winning three awards in 2018, winning five in 2019 is a new record for the newspaper. Wins include: 1st place for Best Editorial/Column for the Opinion piece, โConsent and Accountability,โ written by the […]
Has the National Media Been Obsessed with Russiagate? Maybe. Meanwhile, local news outlets press on
It’s true: The national media has been obsessed with Donald Trump and Russia. Here in the world of local news, however, we’ve been keeping our noses to the ground. In the wake of the Mueller report, it’s been a difficult time for national news outlets. Ahead of Attorney General William Barr’s eventual release of at […]
As much as things stay the same, sometimes they also change
As much as things stay the same, sometimes they also change Scrolling through the Opinion page of BendSource.com at the end of the year gave the Editorial Board a bird’s-eye view of the issues important to us and the wider community. It’s a good exercise to help distill down the issues that pop up over […]

