The Oregonian Loses Another Award-Winning Reporter to Government PR

By COREY PAUL

Award-winning reporter Melissa Navas will leave The Oregonian to join Multnomah County's communications staff in mid-September. She joins a long list of journalists going to work for government PR offices, as WW has shown.

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that Julie Sullivan, one of The Oregonian's most respected journalists, was joining the county as a spokesperson. In April, WW's managing news editor Hank Stern, also a former Oregonian reporter, left to do the same. Their boss, communications director David Austin, is a former Oregonian reporter as well.

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