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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017
Frankowicz joins Murphey takes over photographer
Daily Astorian
role in Daily Astorian newsroom
Former reporter,
reporting team
studio technician
Former intern,
reporter returns
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Katie Frankowicz’s fi rst
full-time reporting job after col-
lege was at The Daily Astorian
covering cops, courts and Clat-
sop County.
After moving on in 2011,
she returned to the paper earlier
this year to cover Astoria, War-
renton and natural resources.
“With Katie’s return, The
Daily Astorian is once again
on the leading edge of envi-
ronmental reporting about the
Columbia-Pacifi c
region,”
Managing Editor Laura Sell-
ers said. “And, because she has
lived in the area for a number of
years, Katie has amassed a deep
trove of sources.”
Born in Nebraska, Franko-
wicz grew up in the Portland
metro area. She fi rst became
involved in newspapers at
Clackamas Community Col-
lege in Oregon City where she
worked on the student newspa-
per fi rst as a reporter and pho-
tographer then later as a news
editor then editor-in-chief. She
earned a bachelor’s in jour-
nalism from the University of
Oregon. While in college, she
also interned with the Eugene
Weekly and Tigard Times.
After graduating in 2009,
Frankowicz joined The Daily
Astorian as an intern through
the Charles Snowden Program
for Excellence in Journalism,
from which The Daily Astorian
has hired multiple reporters and
a former photographer. She was
hired full time in 2010 .
During her time away from
The Daily Astorian, Franko-
wicz worked in restaurants,
freelanced and wrote for other
regional newspapers such as
the South County Spotlight
in Columbia County, Chi-
nook Observer in Long Beach,
Tom Bennett/Submitted Photo
Katie Frankowicz, report-
er for T he Daily Astorian,
dons safety gear to report
on a story.
Washington, and monthly
trade publication Pacifi c Fish-
ing Magazine. Over her career,
Frankowicz has developed
an affi nity for reporting on
fi sheries.
“I think it was something
that really intimidated me to
learn about, but the landscape
of this place and the water and
the ecosystems are so fascinat-
ing to me, and the people who
work those areas and see all
sorts of things that I’m never
going to see or experience.
“Those are the bones of this
place, and it’s really fascinat-
ing to see who’s still engaged in
that, and why, and how they’re
making it work. And I just
really like talking to biologists
and fi shermen.”
“I would really like to illus-
trate where city polices or state
polices in the case of fi sheries
and logging, where those really
touch people’s lives out here,”
she said.
Frankowicz said it’s excit-
ing The Daily Astorian is will-
ing to dedicate coverage to nat-
ural resources.
In her personal time, Fran-
kowicz said she enjoys spend-
ing time with her dog in the
outdoors and with her hus-
band, Michal Frankowicz, head
brewer at Fort George Brewery.
Gasser: Will be coaching
grandkid’s Little League
baseball team afterward
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Cowapa League title . Most of
this year’s team were part of
last year’s Fishermen squad
that reached the 4A semifi nals.
Asked if this team could
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in 11 years, Gasser didn’t
hesitate.
“Oh yeah, absolutely.
We’re different. We’re very
good defensively and we
swing it. I mean, we swing it,”
Gasser said.
Gasser head ed into the fi nal
week of the regular season
with a career record of 745-
233 and fi ve state champion-
ships (Madison, two at Laker-
idge, two at Astoria). If he were
coming out of college today to
teach high school, Gasser said
there’s not a chance he would
have survived a 35-year run.
It starts in the classroom,
where Gasser says the time
commitment is much greater
than when he broke into the
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“The decimation of sum-
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to run a community baseball
program the way I believe it
should be run. That would
have driven me out,” Gasser
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it’s still possible to commit to
A new name has appeared under
Daily Astorian photos.
Colin Murphey became the Astori-
an’s photographer in late April. He suc-
ceeds Danny Miller, who is hiking the
Pacifi c Crest Trail.
Murphey, 40, has worked as a
reporter and writer at several news-
papers throughout the country since
switching from the fi lm industry to
photojournalism in 2006. One of those
papers was the Hermiston Herald, a
weekly EO Media Group publication,
where he spent a year.
Three years later, he has returned to
the N orthwest to cover Clatsop County.
“This paper has got an excellent rep-
utation. It’s been around a long time,”
Murphey said. “It doesn’t hurt that it’s
in one of the most beautiful spots in the
country.”
Managing Editor Laura Sellers said,
“Colin brings a wealth of life expe-
riences to his new role for The Daily
Astorian. We are excited to continue
our long run of excellent photographers
with his addition.”
Born in Oklahoma City, Murphey
spent his early life in the Midwest before
diving into fi lm making as a studio tech-
nician. For nearly a decade, he worked
on several fi lm projects throughout the
country.
But as Murphey gradually transi-
tioned from feature fi lms to documen-
taries, his interest in photojournalism
grew. He attended the University of
Missouri from 2006 to 2010 to study
journalism.
“Photojournalism and documentary
fi lm making have got a lot in common,
so it just kind of makes sense,” he said.
His most memorable moments in
journalism include coverage of a 2011
tornado in Missouri that killed more than
100 people, as well as a trip to cover the
Standing Rock protests in North Dakota
earlier this year. Standing Rock offered
an opportunity to practice photojournal-
ism when subjects’ emotion levels were
unusually strong, Murphey said.
“Photography is just an invasive
practice in general,” he said. “Even if
you’re sensitive, you’re still essentially,
you know, invading someone’s privacy
to document what they’re going through
on an average day.”
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