Dear readers,
Local columnists are as much a part of a community newspaper as reporting on city councils and school boards.
The East Oregonian has several local columnists — Regina Braker writes Another Mile, Sheila Hagar provides Homeplace, Marc Mullins sends in the eponymous Marc’s Remarks, to name a few.
Readers of the Hermiston Herald are familiar with Scott Smith’s Education Corner, Rich Wandschneider writes columns for the Wallowa County Chieftain. Jean Ann Moultrie’s Off the Beaten Path was in the Blue Mountain Eagle.
The list goes on.
We’re working at getting local columnists onto the pages of the new regional EO. Maybe you saw Bill Aney’s This Land is Our Land in the July 10 paper or the Eye to the Sky column from the good folks at the National Weather Service that was in the July 17 edition.
If not, you can read Bill’s online here and the NWS column here.
As we sort out when columnists appear and where, we’ll also be doing more to showcase them on social media as well as promote them in newsletters, such as this. We want to get a better understanding of how popular local columns are and how many readers these columns draw online. If it turns out we have columns few, if anyone, is reading, we need to assess what to do about that.
If you have local columns you want to see in print and online, let us know. We need the feedback. You also can even give your input on columns you don’t care for. We’ll keep all that anonymous.
Send those comments and others to editor@eastoregonian.com.
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As always, if you have comments or questions about the East Oregonian, or want to pass along a story idea, send me an email at this address: editor@eastoregonian.com.
And of course thank you to East Oregonian’s subscribers: We simply would be unable to do this vital work without your support.
Phil Wright is the managing editor of the East Oregonian.
