AAN News » Industry News
   

How Willamette Week Broke Big Story on Oregon Ex-Governor

By AAN Staff
july 21, 2004  05:05 pm
The story was percolating for some 20 years. Reporters pursued it but not far enough. And then, Jill Rosen reports in American Journalism Review, a feisty Oregon alt-weekly made a stunning revelation on its Web site May 6. Former governor Neil Goldschmidt, when he was mayor of Portland, had had sexual relations with a girl who was only 14. A lead from a state senator, followed by intensive records searches and interviews, helped Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss pull the story together.
View full article at American Journalism Review
Tags: , ,