Celebrating Eugene Weekly at 40: The Past, Present and Future of Local Journalism
Time: Noon to 1:15 pm
Venue: Maple Room at Inn at 5th, Market District
205 E 6th
Eugene, Oregon
97401
Topic:
“Welcome to the premiere edition of What’s Happening, Eugene and Springfield’s new weekly guide to events and entertain
ment…”
Those were words that graced the inaugural issue of What’s Happening on Thursday, September 16, 1982. 40 years later, What’s Happening is Eugene Weekly, our region’s beloved alt-weekly, which continues to thrive even as a series of challenges have roiled print media in recent decades.
As City Club launches its 2023 program year in a wonderful new location at the Inn at the 5th, we welcome you to join us in celebrating four decades of Eugene Weekly and what it can tell us about the past, present and future of local journalism.
We’ll begin 2023 with a new meeting location: The Maple Room at Inn at the 5th in the Market
District (purple on parking map). Enter through the outside doors near the north staircase to 5th Avenue, as shown in this photo, or come through the Inn’s main door. Parking is available in the lot north of the railroad tracks on High Street (green on map); back-up parking is west of Market Square near Buffalo Exchange (gray).
Speakers
Title: Managing Editor
Organization: Ethos Magazine
Website: https://ethos-magazine.com/
Biography:
Ella Hutcherson is a senior in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. She is the managing editor of Ethos Magazine, a student-run publication, and a freelance reporter and former intern for Eugene Weekly. She is also currently aiding Professor of Practice Lori Shontz in developing a new course for the UO School of Journalism and Communication about journalism’s role in a healthy democracy.
Title: Editor
Organization: Eugene Weekly
Website: https://eugeneweekly.com/
Biography:
Camilla Mortensen is the editor-in-chief of Eugene Weekly. She has a doctorate in comparative literature, a master’s degree in folklore and a passion for journalism. She teaches journalism at the University of Oregon and writing and news writing at Lane Community College.
Title: Assistant Professor, School of Journalism & Communication
Organization: University of Oregon
Website: https://journalism.uoregon.edu/directory/directory-faculty/all/bwalth
Biography:
Brent Walth joined the UO School of Journalism and Communication in 2015 after more than 30 years as an editor, author, and investigative reporter. He is an assistant professor. A native of Oregon, Brent has worked as a staff writer and managing editor for Willamette Week; Oregon State Capitol correspondent for the Register-Guard; and Washington, DC, correspondent and senior investigative reporter for The Oregonian. Brent is a five-time winner of the Bruce Baer Award, Oregon’s top reporting prize, and the Gerald Loeb Award, the nation’s top honor for business and financial reporting. At The Oregonian, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2000, and in 2001 he shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for an investigation into abuses by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. He is also the author of Fire at Eden’s Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story.
