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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2017
Bengel takes over Coast Weekend
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Lawyer says man dragged off
plane has concussion, lost teeth
Astorian reporter
moves to features
editor position
sound like somebody I’m not.” gel returned to Portland State,
Bengel grew up in Albany where he was arts and culture
and attended Southern Oregon editor for the Vanguard, before
University in art-infused Ash- being named the paper’s editor
land, where he studied English in chief.
“Every year, I said ‘This is
literature and philosophy. He
later studied at Portland State my last year,’ whatever it was
I was doing,” he said. “But
University.
somehow, I was
“I started out as a
able to parlay one
news writer for Port-
job into the next,
land State (Univer-
just kept going. And
sity’s) Vanguard”
the arts and culture
student newspaper,
editorship is prob-
he said. “I was kind
ably the most fun
of going through a
I’ve ever had.”
phase where I was
In
August
just trying different
2013, he became a
activities to see if I
reporter at the Can-
was good at them.”
Erick Bengel
non Beach Gazette,
After contribut-
and in 2015 trans-
ing to the Vanguard,
Bengel joined The Daily Asto- ferred to The Daily Astorian,
rian as an intern through the covering the cities of Astoria
Charles Snowden Program for and Warrenton and quality of
Excellence in Journalism, his life issues.
first full-time journalism job.
Former Coast Weekend Editor
The handoff
Rebecca Sedlak and Astorian
Bengel said he’s taking over
reporter Edward Stratton are a well-oiled machine from
also Snowden alumni.
Sedlak, who held the position
After his internship, Ben- for the past 4 1/2 years before
taking a position with the Ore-
gon Society of Certified Public
Accountants.
“She has an extraordi-
nary sense of organization,”
he said. “I think it’s going to
be extremely important. Right
now, I’m trying to understand
how she did things organiza-
tionally, the structures that she
built to keep herself and her
writers on track.”
Rather than helping groom
aspiring writers at the col-
lege level, Bengel said, he’ll
have the advantage of working
with trained professionals who
already have a voice. Part of
his imprint on Coast Weekend,
he said, will be to increase the
journalistic substance of Coast
Weekend.
“We want the writing to
sound less like publicist writ-
ing, less press release-y,” he
said. “Obviously it’s going to
be replete with press releases
and all of that, but when it
comes to the actual feature sto-
ries, I want there to be a bit
more of an edge to it.”
CHICAGO — A passenger dragged from a United Express
flight suffered a “significant” concussion and broken nose,
and he lost two front teeth, one of his lawyers said today.
Dr. David Dao has been discharged from a hospital but
he will require reconstructive surgery, said attorney Thomas
Demetrio, whose law firm is representing the 69-year-old
Kentucky physician.
Dao was removed from the plane Sunday after he refused
to give up his seat on the full flight from Chicago to Louisville.
Demetrio said he likely will file a lawsuit on Dao’s behalf,
adding that airlines — and United in particular — have long
“bullied” passengers.
The video of a passenger being dragged by an officer from
a United Express flight shined an unwanted spotlight on the
little-known police force that guards Chicago’s two main air-
ports and could threaten the agency’s future.
Chicago’s aviation officers are not part of the regular police
force, unlike in many other big cities. They get less training
than regular officers and can’t carry firearms inside the air-
ports. Three of them were put on leave amid outrage over how
they treated the passenger.
The City Council is looking for answers about the embar-
rassing video that has been seen around the world. At the top
of the list of questions is whether the airport officers even had
the legal authority to board the plane, said Alderman Michael
Zalewski, who leads the council’s aviation committee.
Since college, Erick Ben-
gel has jumped back and forth
between the hard news and
features sections of the papers
he’s worked at.
A reporter for the EO
Media Group since 2013, Ben-
gel was recently named the
features editor of Coast Week-
end arts and entertainment
tabloid, Weekend Break sec-
tion and Our Coast magazine.
Although learning in a trial by
fire, Bengel said the transition
feels natural.
“I think arts and culture is
kind of my home,” he said.
“Sometimes when I write news
stories, straight newsy style,
I feel like I’m trying to adopt
an accent … I feel like I have
to kind of throw my voice, to
Phones and social media turn
consumers into whistleblowers
New reporter joins Astorian, South County publications
NEW YORK — Look out, Corporate America. Custom-
ers armed with smartphones and video cameras are watching
when you screw up.
The viral video of a ticketed passenger dragged forcefully
off a United flight is only the latest example of bad behavior
exposed in the age of social media.
In February, Uber came under fire after a driver posted
video of CEO Travis Kalanick berating him. Earlier, a Com-
cast technician was shown in a video sleeping on a custom-
er’s couch, and an audio recording chronicled one man’s her-
culean efforts to drop Comcast service; they are among the
embarrassing customer complaints that ultimately forced
improvements . FedEx had to respond after video showed a
driver carelessly throwing a package with a computer mon-
itor over the front gate. Beyond the corporate sphere, smart-
phone videos of police brutality have prompted protests and
investigations.
Not long ago, such incidents might have gotten a mention
on the local news at most, and quickly disappeared. But smart-
phone cameras and social media have democratized informa-
tion and shifted power to consumers. Companies can no lon-
ger sweep complaints under the rug.
“That’s something a lot of companies just don’t get,” said
Paul Argenti, a professor of corporate communications at
Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. “Companies still oper-
ate as if they can hide things and make believe something
didn’t happen.”
Visser to focus
on Cannon Beach
ACLU sues for information
related to Trump travel bans
CHICAGO — The American Civil Liberties Union has
filed more than a dozen lawsuits nationwide seeking govern-
ment documents related to the implementation of the Trump
administration’s travel bans.
The organization announced efforts Wednesday to sue
for records from 14 Customs and Border Protection offices,
including in Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston.
The ACLU says it first sought details through Freedom of
Information Act requests, but government officials “failed to
substantively respond.”
CBP officials didn’t return a message Wednesday.
The organization is looking for documents showing how
the bans were carried out at airports. The lawsuits cover
Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Boston, San Diego, San Fran-
cisco, Seattle, Miami, Tampa, Florida; Portland, Oregon; and
Tucson, Arizona.
W A NTED
Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — For a college
newspaper editor, being thrown
into a firestorm was quite an
experience.
Brenna Visser faced just that
when, as editor of the West-
ern Front — the weekly at
the Western Washington Uni-
versity — the president of the
Associated Students received
racially charged threats. What
ensued was three months of
competition with national news
outlets about race relations on
college campuses in the U.S.
“I was editor in chief at the
time when we were reporting
the fallout,” Visser said. “It was
a very emotional experience
dealing with something as vol-
atile as a racial threat.”
Visser earned her bache-
lor’s degree in journalism with
honors early this month and is
now the South County reporter
for the Gazette and The Daily
Astorian. A former intern at the
Skagit Valley Herald, a Wash-
ington daily, the Gazette will
be her first official job out of
college.
Her interest in journalism is
a lifelong one.
“I have always been fas-
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for businesses or jobs,” Visser
said. “It’s a constant balancing
act between preserving the rea-
sons for people to come here
but also making this place liv-
able for the people that are here.
“So far, I’ve been telling
people this place is uncharac-
teristically nice,” she added.
“Everywhere you go people are
trying to make your day better.
I’m excited to be here.”
Got a story?
“Call the office,” Visser
said. “Let me know what’s
going on. I’m new here and I’m
doing my best to get to know
how this community works.
The best way to do that is come
and talk with me.”
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cinated with people, which I
think is a big part of it,” Visser dream destination.
“My first impression was
said from the Astorian’s Seaside
office. “What intrigues me with that it was beautiful,” Visser
journalism as a field is people said. “I’d only been here under
call it ‘the first draft of history.’ the context of it being a vaca-
You get to document a lot of tion place. Every other time I’d
the moments that would just be been here, I’d seen it for the
forgotten by the general mem- excellent restaurants, and the
ory, highlighting the stories that beautiful beaches and the sun-
otherwise wouldn’t be told or sets. I’m an outdoorsy person,
and there’s lots of outdoorsy
wouldn’t be recognized.”
things to do. And
At the Herald,
I’m drawn to local
Visser drew read-
journalism because
ers’ attention with a
of that small-town
feature story about
feel you don’t get in
the daughter of a
Seattle or Spokane
state trooper who
or New York City.”
died in the line of
Out-sized issues
duty. The daughter
loom in Cannon
was so inspired by
Beach, a city of
her father’s sacri-
1,400 that bulges to
fice she determined
hundreds of thou-
to become a trooper
Brenna Visser
sands throughout the
herself.
“It’s not breaking news, it’s course of the year.
Among topics on Viss-
not about taxes or how much
money the budget has, but it’s er’s story list are the city bud-
a story that probably wouldn’t get, parking and traffic, fire and
have been told without the public safety, emergency pre-
work of journalism, highlight- paredness, the arts, the new
ing someone’s personal strug- Cannon Beach Academy —
gle through grief,” Visser said. and the unique personalities
“Being able to give a commu- that make Cannon Beach a des-
nity that was pretty heart-bro- tination locale.
“The issues that stood out
ken about this death a little bit
of a silver lining was pretty to me the most are the debate
between preservation of the
gratifying.”
A native of Wenatchee, environment versus meeting
Washington, Visser is a “Pacific the needs of space for people,
whether that be for housing,
Northwest person, for sure.”
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