Oregon State University’s student newspaper, The Daily Barometer, is currently participating in “College Media Madness,” an annual fundraising event that offers audiences the opportunity to jump on a basketball-style bracket to support their favorite college or university reporters.
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April 20, 2021
Nat Geo and the
New York Times can’t tell you. It’s the journalism that covers what’s planned for your street, and what’s happening in your schools. Local journalism impacts your daily life.
Yet, community-based journalism is facing existential challenges.
Here’s What’s Happened
Even before the pandemic, revenues supporting local coverage had been declining for years, and the lockdown cut any remaining advertising revenue by 42% at local newspapers across the country. In the last 15 years, about 1,800 newspapers in the U.S. closed, and there are now almost 25% fewer reporters available to tell you what’s happening. Here in Corvallis, one daily cut its staff in half, then dismissed their longtime editor.
Jennifer Moody, Oregon State University, Orange Media Network
Rob Priewe, LBCC, Journalism Instructor
Moderators include Jillian St. Jacques, OSU Journalism Instructor; Cara Nixon, Contributing Journalist at
The Barometer and
The Corvallis Advocate and President of City Club of Corvallis.
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Though many Corvallis traditions and events have been cancelled due to the pandemic, community leaders urge residents to explore and support efforts to create new, alternate forms of entertainment and celebration.
The Pastega Christmas Lights Display, a generations-old Corvallis event founded by the late Mario Pastega and now funded through the Mario and Alma Pastega family foundation, was cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns.Â
Ken Pastega, Mario Pastegaâs son, said the family instead chose to donate $40,000 to Linn Benton Food Share.
Usually, Pastega said they have between 150 to 200 volunteers and four fully-paid individuals who work alongside him, Mike and Dana Strowbridge to create the display.Â