A snapshot of what’s happening this week in Portland’s top
rags and mags
- The Portland Monthly is featuring the Top 10
headlines published by the magazine in 2012. Coming in at number four was,
“Oregon is beautiful.” Number three; “Oregon is beautiful on red wine.” Number
Two; “Beer and wine makes Oregon look beautiful.” Coming in at number one;
“Oregon looks looks beautiful on weed, wine and beer.”
- The Oregonian will begin a new revenue
generating model in the summer that entails renting out most of its empty
office space to advertisers in exchange for actually buying an ad in the
newspaper. The newspapers editorial board is thought to be moving its office
space to Clackamas where it will feel closer to its bat-shit crazy roots.
- The Willamette Week is working on a cover story
about Portlanders whose pasts are so jacked up that they should never even think
about running for office.
- After ten years, The Portland Mercury is still
hoping for its first Oregon Society of Professional Journalist award.
- Portland Afoot, PDX’s 10-minute magazine on
buses, bikes and low-car life, will be upgrading to a 15-minute read this
coming summer.
- Bike Portland announced that it has the most
readers of any blog in Portland with the least amount of diversity.
- For the fourth year in a row the Portland
Business Journal claims to be the most read newspaper in the region that has
yet to question or break any investigative news on the business community. The
advertising department say they couldn’t be more thrilled.
- KGW was the first to report a crash on SE 122nd
and Stark. Not to be outdone, KATU reported another crash on I-205 Westbound.
Reporters at KOIN claimed on Twitter that the two crashes resulted in a traffic
jam. Fox 12 reported rain.
- Street Roots, a paper for “those people,”
continues to report drivel that most of Portland couldn’t care less about.
This article is part of Street Roots’ annual satire edition released each year for April Fools Day.
This article appears in 2013-04-01.