Bethany Barnes
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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.
"If newsrooms want coverage to be diverse, newsrooms must back up that aim with an investment of time," writes The Oregonian's Bethany Barnes. Here's how she invested her reporting time.
Portland's housing crisis is talked about constantly in City Hall as a public policy problem centered on where people live. But the city's failure to provide enough affordable housing is also an education problem.
This is the third in a three-part series that examines the impact of Portland's housing crisis on children. This series was produced with the support of the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and its Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism....
This series was produced with the support of the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and its Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism.
Other stories in the series include:
Reading, Writing, Evicted: Portland's housing crisis is an education story
This is the first in a three-part series that examines the impact of Portland's housing crisis on children. This series was produced with the support of the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and its Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism....
This series was produced with the support of the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and its Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism....
This series was produced with the support of the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and its Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism....
As Portland, Oregon is hit with some of the fastest rising rents in the country due to housing scarcity, children are paying a price in little-noticed ways.