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  • Duncan Hwang: Advocacy in Organizing and Politics (Oregon Speaks: Voices from this moment)

    Duncan Hwang: Advocacy in Organizing and Politics (Oregon Speaks: Voices from this moment)
    2025/07/07
    This episode was created by students from the University of Oregon’s Graduate School of Journalism and Communication. Producer Kaiya Laguardia-Yonamine speaks with Duncan Hwang about the importance of local organizing and turning inward to sustain our communities. Duncan reflects on his experience as the Community Development Director at APANO, as well as his role as an elected official for the Metro Council. Show notes & links: APANO – one of the largest nonprofit organizations serving Asian and Asian American communities in Oregon today. Duncan has worked at APANO since the organization's origin in 2013. APANO Action Fund - a sister organization to APANO that focuses on political advocacy, legislative action, and electing BIPOC and progressive leaders into local office. Metro Council – the regional government collaborating between Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties. Metro supervises the waste management systems, some housing developments, and major tourist attractions in the Portland Metro area. Thanks to Leif Olsen for composing the music for the series of Oregon Speaks: Voices from this moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    30 分
  • Beat Check is taking a short break for the summer, stay tuned

    Beat Check is taking a short break for the summer, stay tuned
    2025/07/07
    Beat Check with The Oregonian is taking a short break for the summer while we work to bring you our next exciting project and reimagine the format of the show. In the meantime, you can look forward to several episodes of “Oregon Speaks: Voices from this moment,” a limited-series podcast from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. We’ll also bring around some of our most listened to episodes from the last couple years. Make sure to also check out The Oregonian’s other podcast offerings at Oregonlive.com/podcasts. We’ve got sports podcasts and a travel podcast called Peak Northwest where we take you to some of the greatest destination in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. And don’t forget to support our local journalism and get the latest news by becoming a subscriber to OregonLive. You can do that by going to OregonLive.com/subscribe. Thanks so much for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    2 分
  • Therese Bottomly on four decades in Oregon journalism

    Therese Bottomly on four decades in Oregon journalism
    2025/06/30
    Therese Bottomly, editor of The Oregonian/OregonLive and a frequent host of Beat Check with The Oregonian, is retiring next month after 42 years in the newsroom. On this episode of Beat Check, Bottomly reflects on the stories that shaped her career, and Oregon. She discusses how the newsroom rose to the challenge of covering some of the most significant news events of the era, her decision in 2022 to apologize personally for the newspaper's historical promotion of racism and xenophobia, and her hopes for the future of local journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 分
  • The charm and gossip in reporting in rural Oregon

    The charm and gossip in reporting in rural Oregon
    2025/06/23
    Features reporter Samantha Swindler talks about the hidden gem stories she finds in some of Oregon's smallest towns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 分
  • How the Trump immigration crackdown is impacting Oregon

    How the Trump immigration crackdown is impacting Oregon
    2025/06/16
    The Oregonian’s investigative reporter Yesenia Amaro talks on Beat Check about the recent immigration enforcement ramp-up, Trump’s approach to immigration and the impact on Oregon communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 分
  • Does Oregon’s cherished Bottle Bill compound Portland’s fentanyl crisis?

    Does Oregon’s cherished Bottle Bill compound Portland’s fentanyl crisis?
    2025/06/09
    Lawmakers in Salem recently enacted a series of substantive tweaks to the state’s beloved Bottle Bill, which allows residents to return cans and bottles for 10 cents apiece. Those changes have helped amplify a growing and complicated debate about Oregon’s first-in-the-nation program, now more than 50 years old. Does Portland and some other pockets of the state have a cash-for-cans crisis? What should city and state officials do about the drug, crime and livability problems surrounding some BottleDrops? And will these revisions to the Bottle Bill make the issue better or worse? On the latest Beat Check, reporters Aimee Green and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh discuss Green’s four-part series that digs deep into these questions and many more. Read More:Oregon loves its Bottle Bill, but is it dragging down Portland?‘At the grocery store, we’re looked down upon,’ say people who collect cans on Portland’s streetsFentanyl use, drug deals cluster around a few Portland Plaid Pantry stores. Chain’s boss worries it’ll get worseDo you return cans for 10 cents apiece? Oregon’s Bottle Bill is set to change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 分
  • Fact vs. speculation: How true crime podcasters approach the Kyron Horman case (Part 4: Guest podcast: Bookies with Your Besties)

    Fact vs. speculation: How true crime podcasters approach the Kyron Horman case (Part 4: Guest podcast: Bookies with Your Besties)
    2025/06/06
    In the digital age, true crime content has exploded in popularity across podcasts, social media and streaming platforms. But with this growth comes a troubling trend: The blurring of verified facts and speculative theories. On a recent episode of Beat Check with the Oregonian, guests Emily Reeder and Ashley Desanno from the Books with Your Besties podcast discussed this challenge while reflecting on their coverage of the Kyron Horman case, the 7-year-old Portland boy that went missing in 2010. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 分
  • Long hours, daylong stakeouts: How reporters pursued the Kyron Horman story in 2010 (Part 3: Shane Dixon Kavanaugh)

    Long hours, daylong stakeouts: How reporters pursued the Kyron Horman story in 2010 (Part 3: Shane Dixon Kavanaugh)
    2025/06/05
    In 2010, digital tools for journalists were emerging, but the gritty, time-intensive methods of traditional reporting still dominated newsrooms. The disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron Horman from his Portland elementary school thrust The Oregonian’s journalists into a high-stakes investigation that demanded old-school techniques now increasingly rare in today’s fast-paced media environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 分