Ben Botkin
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Lookout Local,
USA Today,
Yahoo News,
U.S. News and World Report,
Flipboard,
The Mercury News,
The Seattle Times,
The Denver Post,
The Oregonian,
Washington Times,
Yahoo
and
Covers:
State government and agencies, corrections, health care, mental health, the insurance industry, the Legislature and any other stories that require digging.
Doesn't Cover:
I don't cover anything without a connection to government and people.
Senior Correspondent at Lookout Eugene-Springfield.
Public records/data geek. @SPJOregon board member.
Tips: ben@lookoutlocal.com
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Ben Botkin’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Ben Botkin is an accomplished watchdog and beat reporter. Botkin is currently the politics & policy correspondent for Lookout Eugene-Springfield.
He previously covered state politics for the Oregon Capital Chronicle, the Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore., The Denver Post and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He also wrote about criminal justice and state prison issues for Oklahoma Watch, a non-profit investigative journalism outlet.
Botkin has covered national stories such as the Nevada caucuses, …
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No.
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Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Fiction + journalist = not a good combination.