Recent content by DG

I am the one vacating the job...happy to answer questions or talk to anyone who is applying. Not offering the following to discourage anyone from applying -- just in the interest of full disclosure. We have been operating under two furlough days a month for years, and there's not much sense...

Yeah, it is. Bend is the biggest paper in the chain. WesCom recently sold the Hermiston Herald, which I think had been the worst paper in the portfolio in a while. But it was sold to the East Oregonian, which has a good a chance as anyone to turn it around...

That's meant to be more a cost-of-living comparison than a housing market comparison. The real estate market is ridiculous, although that's coming down too. Let's put it this way -- my wife and I live comfortably in Bend and easily save every month, and we're not making money hand over fist...

The building we're in is like 6 years old, and it has to be one of the nicest buildings any newspaper is based in. The only thing that is close that I've seen is Tacoma, which is in a really nice building too. I've worked at The Washington Post, which has its charm, but is pretty much a dump...

I always hear people pooh-pooh Bend because it's expensive, and certainly it's not cheap. But I think it's overrated. My wife and I have a nice two-bedroom apartment while we're trying to find the right house. For reference, we pay $675, which is more than half of the monthly rent for the...

Well, the newsroom staff is significantly bigger than most 30K circs...we have something like 65-70 newsroom jobs. The Kitsap Sun, when I left, was like 40. So there's simply more jobs here...that's at least part of it. I am in a bubble here in sports, as well...I can't speak to what goes on in...

I work in the sports department at Bend, and I'll be happy to answer any questions about the job. I've worked at four different papers since college, and the pay is better than papers with a similar circulation, from what I know...I made a horizontal move, more or less ,from the Kitsap Sun in...