L. J. Breedlove

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN ALL YOUR CHOICES SUCK?As far as the student-run Eyewitness News is concerned, J.J. is a journalist. And if he wants to cover the Black Lives Matter protests, EWN needs him there. He'll be a big name someday, the editors say.J.J.'s father is a Portland police officer, however, and he's demanding J.J. quit EWN, and quit covering the protests. Or leave home and lose his family.And J.J. must choose: his family or his future.Sometimes...

When They Came for the JournalistsIt has been a rough year for the student-run Eyewitness News. Protests, police brutality, the pandemic, and then white supremacists built a scaffold and hung a noose outside their building. Emily Andersen is the editor, and she'll protect her staff: No matter what. No matter who. Book 6 in the Newsroom PDX suspense series.Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Of course, there is. It's Portland.

When Someone Needs You to be Someone Different Joe Castro was the newsroom stoner - every college newsroom needs one, his editor quipped, and even he thought it was funny. Then his three younger siblings ran away from their abusive stepfather and ended up on his doorstep. Well, on the newsroom's doorstep. And now he needed to be something more than just the newsroom stoner.

He Doesn't Feel Like a Hero White supremacy groups have targeted the student-run Eyewitness News for their coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests. Protests become riots; death threats become real attempts. And the EWN staff doesn't know who they can trust to protect them - their own campus security seems suspect. Cage Washington knows something has to be done. But what will the solution cost him, his friends, his coworkers, even EWN itself?

When You Can't Trust Your Own MemoriesRyan Matthews has a memory problem. Some memories just don't exist - nothing before age 10 really.Some memories conflict.If you asked him a year ago about his home life, he would have said his adoptive parents loved him, and he loved them, and they probably didn't deserve the wild teen he became.So what about the scars on his arm? Or his stomach? What about the images that haunt his nightmares?If you can't trust...

Janet Andrews is a respected journalist and editor. But once, she was someone else. Now, they're coming for her, and this time? They aren't going to let her go. Mac Davis still isn't sure how he ended up being a cop reporter. But he's pretty sure he wouldn't still be a reporter if it wasn't for Janet Andrews. He probably would be in jail, if not dead. So he owes her. And he knows it. Now, she's in trouble. She's being hunted. Mac doesn't plan to...

NEWSROOM RULES: STAY SAFE. GET THE STORY. When the college basketball team traveled to Boise for a Thanksgiving tournament, the sports editor thought she did everything right: social distancing, testing before the trip, masks, no parties. But no one told her, or the team, or the alumni aboard the trip, the truth: a coach came down with COVID and had to be left behind on a ventilator in Boise. The COVID numbers are rising in Portland. At the university. And...

Weathering the Winds of Change Yui Ito Yoshida had always lived on Hat Island. She didn't think she could live anywhere else. She'd faced trauma as a child, more trauma as an adult, but now? Now she had a mate, two children, and she was happy. Safe. She laughed when they called her the Woman of Hat Island, but she had to acknowledge she was deeply rooted here. It was her refuge. Then Stefan Lebenev showed up to reopen the Wolf Harbor Resort. And she...

The student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland has a lot of balls in the air: a series on homelessness, a new look at why downtown is so empty, an investigation into the man who tried to kill some of the staff, and a whole host of other stories. Plenty to keep them all busy, the news editor thought. And now what? A war in Ukraine? How was she supposed to cover that? Still reeling from the recent events, the staff gears up to try to do the story...

He's everybody's kid brother. Corey Washington's oldest brother had been the advertising manager at the student-run Eyewitness News in Portland. His older brother Cage had been a videographer for years, and everyone hero-worshipped him - including Corey. Corey was the computer systems manager for EWN, and everyone treated him like their own kid brother. He didn't really mind. But now he's the team leader at a journalism conference. His team is locked...