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Letter from the editor | City Council should let Portlanders decide on a transparency advocate

Portland could have a transparency advocate, but City Council has to approve putting the choice in voters' hands Feb. 22 While Portland’s city government lists “transparency” among its core values, anyone tasked with filing (or fulfilling) more than ...

15 Feb 2023 - K. Rambo
Kaia Sand | Good journalism is worth the investment

OPINION | Street Roots editorial team continues in-depth coverage in 2023 The election of George Santos is a story of a depleted media landscape, argues Sarah Ellison of the Washington Post. George Santos is the newly elected New York Congressman who has ...

4 Jan 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Melanie Henshaw joins Street Roots as new Indigenous affairs reporter

Henshaw (Mvskoke) is a skilled multimedia reporter who has covered a variety of topics, she's poised to make an impact in her new role. I am extremely grateful to accept the position of Street Root’s first-ever Indigenous affairs reporter. I believe ...

6 Jul 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Editorial | Interviewing unhoused neighbors requires care

Street Roots maintains an internal set of criteria and considerations regarding interview practices for unhoused Portlanders. Compassion and consent lead the way. Street Roots often receives praise from readers for including the triumphs, concerns and exp ...

6 Jul 2022 - SR editorial board
Editorial | Street Roots takes home top honor for small newsrooms in PNW

There’s a strained saying about being a journalist that essentially amounts to, ‘the pay is bad and the hours are horrible, but at least everyone hates you.’ While there is some truth to the saying, as there would be with any public-facing job, Street Roo ...

24 May 2022 - K. Rambo
Welcome to the Spring Anthology

A collection of impactful and important stories from a 12-month period Dear reader, When the editorial team set out to curate the Spring Anthology issues, we knew we had a tough task before us; to parse more than 800 pages with only 32 to fill. Curating a ...

20 Apr 2022 - K. Rambo
OPINION | Missing Indigenous women often ignored

Spotty data collection, historic racism against Indigenous communities contribute to lack of media coverage when Indigenous women go missing No one knows just how many Indigenous girls or women go missing each year. There are estimates. In 2019, 8,162 Ind ...

1 Dec 2021 - Wendelin Hume
Editorial | Unity is not anonymity

When Portland City Council announced an unanimous decision to sweep Laurelhurst Park a few weeks ago, no one would go on record to talk about it A united Portland City Council announced a unanimous decision to sweep Laurelhurst Park a few weeks ago — a sy ...

18 Aug 2021 -
The Oshu Nippo: Translating Portland's Japanese newspaper into English

In the early 1900s, the publication was a way for Japanese immigrants to stay connected JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS who came to Oregon in the early 1900s stayed connected with one another and the rest of the world by reading the local Oshu Nippo newspaper. The a ...

11 Jan 2019 - Libby Dowsett
She Shreds editor Fabi Reyna celebrates 5 years with her groundbreaking magazine

The Portland-based publication is a revolutionary platform for female guitarists Five years ago, local musician Fabi Reyna started what would become a revolution. A guitar player since she was 9, she had long been frustrated by the lack of representation ...

2 Nov 2018 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot