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May 2008
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Monday night we ran a story on our 11 p.m. newscast about the conflict between drivers and cyclists in Portland. The purpose of the story was to separate fact from fiction and bring some light to this debate over sharing the road. Amy Troy has done an excellent job of balancing this story. The views of drivers and cyclists are well represented. More importantly, Amy has looked at the facts. And the fact is that both ... More than a year ago Portland free-lance journalist Scott Kesterson came to me and asked if Northwest NewsChannel 8 would sponsor his reporting on the war in Afghanistan. The Oregon National Guard was about to send more than a 1,000 troops to the country and agreed to let Scott go along. I was impressed with Scott's intelligence and dedication. He was also a veteran of the National Guard so he had some military experience that would h... NBC and the rest of us in the media have received a lot of criticism for releasing the video and pictures sent by Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung Hui. KGW Northwest Newschannel 8 has chosen not to show any more of the video or still photos on TV that Cho Seung-Hui sent to NBC news. We will only air any of this material if it is relevant to future stories. We believe the public interest in using this material has been served and there is no good journalistic reason to use it further. Rick Jacobs Kgw.com's web... 11/30 update: This week, our IT team finished 'optimizing' our new site with Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer version 7.0. MS released their new browswer right after we launched our new site, so for the first few weeks some of our pages didn't display properly. Our coders have now finished adapting the site for the new browser so all our features should be accesible with the upgraded IE7. Thanks for your patience on ... by Frank Mungeam
What hasn't changed is our commitment to be the leader in coverage of breaking news, led by the best staff of web writers ... Just before our early newscasts Monday afternoon we received a copy of Hope Glenn's desperate call to a 911 dispatcher. Her son, Lukus, was drunk, breaking windows and threatening to kill himself. I listened to the entire 10 minute call. It was hard to listen to it. Real hard. We had to make a decision about how much of the call we would use on air and on kgw.com. When we face these journalistic questions, I often gather around severa... KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8 and kgw.com will have special coverage today of the Oregon Primary Election. Start off by going to our special election page on kgw.com. We have information about the candidates in case you are still making up your mind and we have a list of the ballot drop-off locations in case you are making a last-minute decision. Tonight we will have a special half-hour election report at 8 p.m. on Northwest NewsChannel 8 with t... If you ever catch yourself stalled in traffic, we have a new tool to help you out of that traffic jam. On Wednesday we are launching Traffic on Demand. Here's how it works: You can go to kgw.com and click on Traffic on Demand. Then you will find a page where you can sign up for customized, personal traffic alerts. You choose the route you normally drive, even the time of day you drive the route. When there is a delay on your chosen route, you ... Last minute scheduling changes are becoming more frequent at NBC. Today they changed the line-up for tomorrow, Saturday, April 22. The two episodes of the Celebrity Cooking Showdown that they yanked from the schedule last night and tonight are now scheduled for tomorrow from 8:00-10:00 PM. So those of you who were following the show will at least get to see its conclusion. Here's the line-up: Saturday, April 22 |
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