Published In
Metroscape
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2010
Subjects
Publishers and publishing -- Oregon -- Portland, Newspapers -- Oregon -- Portland, Journalism -- Oregon -- Portland, Publishers and publishing -- Oregon -- Portland -- Interviews, Peter Bhatia
Abstract
Few industries appear as precarious in today’s economy as newspapers. Once the main source of information for millions of people, printed papers now have to compete with a variety of alternative forms of information gathering and reporting. The ink-stained wretches of yore now lock horns with anonymous bloggers, pompadoured TV anchors on 24-hour news channels, YouTube, and social media for the attention of a fickle public. Among the threatened giants of the old media is The Oregonian, one of the state’s oldest businesses. We sent Ben Lundin, an awardwinning freelance journalist who worked as a staff writer for three Louisiana newspapers and is a graduate of PSU’s professional writing graduate program, to interview Peter Bhatia, the recently installed Editor of The Oregonian. They discussed the view of the journalistic landscape from Bhatia’s window on SW Broadway.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/6870
Citation Details
Lundin, Ben, "Black and White and Read All Over: Print, Profit, and Passion - An Interview with Peter Bhatia" (2010 Metroscape, Institute for Metropolitan Studies, Portland State University)
Description
Originally appeared in the Summer 2010 edition of Metroscape, published by the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, Portland State University.