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...

HE HAS A SON.Ryan Matthews is a player. He's also the editor-in-chief of student-run Eyewitness News in Portland. But for all the women — and a few men — who have been in and out of his bed (and office,...

When You Can't Trust Your Own MemoriesRyan Matthews has a memory problem. Some memories just don't exist — nothing before age 10 really.Some memories conflict.If you asked him a year ago about his home...

Nobody Likes a Smart Girl The college newsroom in downtown Portland is home to an eclectic group of students who wrote, filmed, edited and produced the news for a television show, a newspaper, and a website....

The Literary World Upstairs The second-floor EWN newsroom was full of eccentric, bright, diverse news junkies. The first-floor business and advertising staff stayed away from there. Advertising staff...

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...

When Hearing the Story Isn't EnoughThe student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland has a lot of balls in the air: a series on homelessness, a new look at why downtown is so empty, an investigation...

When You're the HeroMiguel Garcia saved the day in January. His quick thinking stopped the Eyewitness News building from going up in flames with all of his friends and co-workers trapped inside.And he...

Who Killed the Man Everyone Hated?The university president has breakthrough COVID, and everyone seems to see it as a chance to gain power — even if it's for a day or two. So, the interim Vice President...

ALL HE FEELS IS RAGE.His father is dead. His lover is dead. Friends are gone or still recovering. The newsroom staff is exhausted. Everyone is looking to Cage Washington to show them the way through this...

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...

Just Do the JobWill Bristol never intended to be the 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...

How Many People Can One Person Be?Ellison Lee lives a double life. Well triple, if you count the one he shows his parents. He's an anchor for the student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland. A business...

He's Everybody's Kid BrotherCorey Washington's oldest brother had been the advertising manager at the student-run Eyewitness News in Portland. His older brother Cage had been a videographer for years,...

Someone is Hunting ThemNine-year-old Jazzy needs the Video Man, her own private superhero, because Ms.Carroll has gone missing. Cage Washington doesn't think he's a superhero at all, but he's got friends,...

She's Not Going to RunBianca Parks is the face of the student-run Eyewitness News in Portland, Oregon. She's the person everyone sees on the nightly newscast, the most recognizable face — more than the...

When They Came for the JournalistsIt has been a rough year for the student-run Eyewitness News. Protests, police brutality, the pandemic, and then white supremacists built a scaffold and hung a noose...

When Someone Needs You to be Someone DifferentJoe Castro was the newsroom stoner — every college newsroom needs one, his editor quipped, and even he thought it was funny. Then his three younger siblings...

He Doesn't Feel Like a HeroWhite supremacy groups have targeted the student-run Eyewitness News for their coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests. Protests become riots; death threats become real attempts....