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Donald Morrison

Eugene, Los Angeles, New York
As seen in: Easy Reader News, Medium, The Wall Street Journal, Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News, The Baffler, Hotel Management, Passion of the Weiss, Capital News Service, Eugene Weekly
Covers:  School board, local politics
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Donald Morrison’s Biography

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I'm a staff writer at Easy Reader News, a small paper serving the Hermosa, Redonda and Manhattan Beach areas of Los Angeles County. I came to Easy Reader News from the LA Bureau of The Wall Street Journal, where I was an intern for ten weeks of the US news desk.

I'm a 2020 University of Oregon graduate, who was also awarded the Standard Bearer award through the UO School of Journalism and Communication. I spent my entire four years of undergraduate heavily involved in student newspapers. For th…

Donald Morrison’s Journalist Portfolio

Community courts and the homeless: Do these programs make a difference?

Community courts and the homeless: Do these programs make a difference?

Jourdan Horton made her way from Minnesota to Oregon two years ago on the promise of working on a farm near E…

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Free From Fines - For Now

Free From Fines - For Now

Laura Mills sits in the shade atop a thin piece of mattress padding outside of her blue tent. She's nursing a…

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Painful Past

Painful Past

This is not the first time Portland lawyer Shenoa Payne has come forward about her alleged 2005 sexual assaul…

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Begin Modeling

Begin Modeling

He promised that everything would be paid for. The flight. The hotel. The food and transportation. He also pr…

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Fiery Protest

Fiery Protest

The protest started as a reaction to the killing of George Floyd and other acts of police violence against bl…

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Unable to Help

Unable to Help

Since April, 75-year-old Pat Hadley has been living in a tent on a planting strip between busy W. 11th Avenue…

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Articles

American Rehab | Donald Morrison

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By Donald Morrison, Tarence Ray, Maz Do
| The Baffler Verified
It has been close to ten years since I’ve ridden a bike through downtown Portland, Oregon. I was born and raised just outside the city, in a quiet suburb called Tigard, and I have vivid memories of taking my father’s bike as a teenager, loading it onto the TriMet bus, and riding an hour north, where I’d deboard and cruise the lush, green streets. I’d stop for water, needles, and dope—before settling down somewhere along the Willamette River to get high.
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Eric Jackson 1966-2023

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By Donald Morrison
| Eugene Weekly Verified
Ask anyone and they’ll tell you Pineapple had the biggest heart in Eugene. To friends and family, Pineapple’s selfless nature helped revive their faith in humanity and helped them see the world differently. To the authorities tasked with corralling and criminalizing the unhoused in Lane County, he was a constant headache that proved very difficult to make go away, placing himself at the center of the never-ending conflict over how to address homelessness in Eugene.
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Twitter Surveillance

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By Donald Morrison
| Eugene Weekly Verified
When he began listening to a voicemail and realized it was from an officer of the Portland Police Bureau, the Oregon Democratic Party field organizer and prolific tweeter’s first thought was that he’d been caught illegally streaming movies from his laptop. Miles Larson didn’t expect to be accused of threatening Nancy Pelosi, the current speaker of the United States House of Representatives who visited Portland Sept. 6 to fundraise for congressional candidates.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I worked as a news reporter at the Lane Community College student-run newspaper, The Torch, in 2016.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I never have!

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter.

Awards

UO SOJC Standard Bearer

2020

I was awarded the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication 2020 Standard Bearer award for upholding and exceeding the exceptional standards set by the prestigious university.

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