Newsweek Does Tick-Tock on Willamette Week's Sam Adams Scoop
By AAN Staff
february 4, 2009 11:38 am
"After last week, Portland's politicians may think twice about trying to put one over" on
Willamette Week's Pulitzer-winning reporter Nigel Jaquiss, according to
Newsweek reporter Winston Ross. On Jan. 19, Jaquiss
broke the news that Portland mayor Sam Adams had sex with an 18-year-old legislative intern and then lied about it.
Newsweek notes that
WW trumped other news outlets that were pursuing the story: "Jaquiss's scoop is significant not only because it represents the
second huge political figure his journalism has humbled in a period of four years, but also because of whom he beat out to get the story: the much larger and much more heavily financed
Oregonian."