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Newsletter covering Oregon government debuts
Oregon Capital Insider, an
electronic newsletter cover-
ing Oregon government, be-
gan distribution Friday.
Oregon Capital Insider
provides specialized news for
individuals and businesses
that require a deeper under-
standing of the trends, issues
and personalities in state gov-
ernment. The newsletter will
provide timely intelligence
and indepth reporting deliv-
ered to subscribers Friday
mornings, and at other times
breaking news demands.
Based in Salem, the news-
letter is a collaboration be-
tween two family-owned
media companies: EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
A team of veteran journal-
ists produce Oregon Capital
Insider.
• Peter Wong is an
award-winning reporter who
has covered Oregon state
government and politics for
newspapers since 1989.
Wong joined Pamplin Me-
dia Group and the Portland
Tribune in April 2014 after
having been a reporter for
the Salem Statesman Journal
for more than 14 years. Be-
fore that, he worked at the
Medford Mail Tribune as that
EO MEDIA GROUP FILE PHOTO
Three reporters cover state government for the Oregon Capital Insider newsletter. They are,
from left, Peter Wong, Hillary Borrud and Mateusz Perkowski.
newspaper’s capital bureau
chief.
A graduate of the Univer-
sity of Southern California’s
school of journalism, Wong
has won awards for his work
from the Oregon, California
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paper associations, as well as
from the Society of Profes-
sional Journalists.
• Hillary Borrud joined
EO Media Group in 2014
after seven years at the Bend
Bulletin where she reported
on city, county and state is-
sues. Previously, she was a
reporter for the Daily Press in
Victorville, Calif.
Borrud is a member of
Investigative Reporters and
Editors, where she received a
Rural Computer-Assisted Re-
porting Fellowship in 2013.
Borrud received a master’s
degree from the Graduate
School of Journalism at Co-
lumbia University.
• Mateusz Perkowski is
a legislative reporter for EO
Media Group’s Capital Press
in Salem. He has covered ag-
riculture and natural resource
issues for that weekly agricul-
ture newspaper since 2006.
After graduating from
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Port of Umatilla
seeking letters of
interest
la, by no later than March 6.
For more information, call
port General Manager Kim
Puzey, 541-922-3224.
Milton-Freewater resident
Marjorie L. Roff resigned her
position as a Port of Umatilla
Commissioner Feb. 10 after
serving for approximately 24
years. Her resignation creates
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ber Board of Commissioners.
Persons interesting in be-
ing appointed to serve out the
remainder of the term, which
ends June 30, should send a
letter of interest, experience
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of Umatilla, P.O. Box 879,
Umatilla, Oregon 97882, or
hand deliver a letter of interest
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500 Willamette Ave., Umatil-
Garden club
meeting on tap
The Blue Mountain Dis-
trict Garden Club will meet
at 9 a.m. March 21 at Uma-
tilla City Hall, 700 Sixth
St., Umatilla. The hosts are
the Umatilla and Condon
garden clubs. A salad lunch
will be provided for $5 per
person. The guest speaker is
Karen Hutchinson-Talaski,
who will talk about her trip
to China last fall. Anyone
interested in learning more
about garden clubs should
attend.
Chamber
luncheon Tuesday
The Hermiston Chamber
of Commerce monthly Busi-
ness to Business Luncheon
will begin at 11:45 a.m.
Tuesday at the Hermiston
Conference Center. Chuck
Sheketoff, a founder of the
Oregon Center for Public
Policy, will be the guest
speaker for the luncheon.
Sheketoff will talk about
how the OCPP works with
businesses across the state,
how it helps set policy that
helps working class residents
and its legislative priorities.
For more information about
the event and to RSVP, con-
tact the Hermiston Chamber
of Commerce at 541-567-
6151, or go to www.herm-
istonchamber.com or info@
hermistonchamber.com.
Cost is $10 for members and
$13 for non-members.
Morrow County
Veterans
Services hosting
informational event
Morrow County Veterans
Services will host a veterans
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March 19 at the Stokes Land-
ing Senior Center, 195 Opal
Place, Irrigon. Topics of dis-
cussion will include changes
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ment markets. For more in-
formation, call MCVS, 541-
922-6240.
Portland State University in
2004, Perkowski worked as
a freelance writer for several
publications before joining
Capital Press full-time.
Oregon Capital Insider
brings together two compa-
nies with a wide geographic
footprint in Oregon.
Pamplin Media Group
owns 25 twice-weekly, week-
ly and monthly newspapers
covering Portland and its sub-
urbs, as well as communities
in the Willamette Valley and
Central Oregon.
EO Media Group in-
cludes nine daily, weekly,
bi-weekly and monthly
publications serving com-
munities in Eastern Oregon,
including the Hermiston
Herald, and the Oregon
Coast. It also owns the Cap-
ital Press, which covers
agricultural issues in the
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Observer on the southern
Washington coast.
The companies created
Oregon Capital Insider to
counter a decline in indepen-
dent news coverage of state
government.
“While statehouse news
coverage is diminishing in
Oregon and across the na-
tion, our media groups have
chosen to invest in increased
scrutiny of state government,”
said Steve Forrester, president
of the EO Media Group.
Mark Garber, president of
the newspaper division for
Pamplin Media Group, said
both companies are owned by
long-time Oregonians.
“That’s why they are will-
ing to invest in better cover-
age of state government even
while other news organiza-
tions are cutting back,” he
said. “Both companies also
have a strong tradition of bal-
anced and responsible jour-
nalism.”
To subscribe, go to ore-
goncapitalinsider.com.
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