Bethany Barnes is an education reporter on The Oregonian’s public service team. She moved to Portland in 2016 from Las Vegas, where she specialized in investigative reporting. She spent three years in Las Vegas, writing first for the Las Vegas Sun and then Nevada’s largest newspaper, The Las Vegas Review-Journal. In 2016, she was named Outstanding Journalist of the Year by the Nevada Press Association. The year prior, the association named her 2015 Journalist of Merit, the top honor for a journalist early in his or her career. She holds a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and a master’s in journalism from the University of Arizona.

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