News The New Jersey-based owners of The Oregonian have revealed their latest cutbacks in Cleveland—but they have for now spared The Plain Dealer the reduction in print days that gutted The New Orleans Times-Picayune. Instead, Advance Publications Inc.—the Newhouse media empire that owns more than three dozen newspapers across the country—announced today that it will reduce home delivery of The Plain ...   More

Food & Drink Montavilla sake bar/foodie haven Tanuki has temporarily closed today, apparently to head off a positive review by The Oregonian that would bring more diners to the establishment.Owner Janis Martin posted an open apology on Facebook to her "patrons, regulars, guests and fellow travelers on the path of J-punk oddity," further stating that Tanuki would be closed in order to deal with licensing ...   More

Food & Drink Southland Whiskey Kitchen (1422 NW 23rd Ave, 224-2668) is somehow the most controversial restaurant in town right now.The newish joint on Northwest 23rd Avenue is a big and fancy outlet for meat and whiskey from the people who own the Casa del Matador chain. It’s right around the corner from the WW office but, honestly, I didn’t expect it to be reviewed at all, let alone get big-time treatment ...   More

News Advance Publications continues its newspaper-cutting march to the sea.The New Jersey-based company that owns The Oregonian is planning to cut newsroom staff at The Cleveland Plain Dealer by a third and reduce print editions to three days a week, according to the newspaper Guild at The Plain Dealer. Poynter broke the story this week."Friends and supporters, we wanted to let you know that The Plain Dealer ...   More

News One of the best places for political junkies to keep an eye on every tremor of the presidential race is FiftyThirtyEight, the New York Times blog dedicated to tracking polls and probabilities.The blog (named for the total number of electoral votes) uses sophisticated tracking and analysis to weigh polls and trends in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The current projection is that President ...   More

Murmurs For the first time in recent memory, The Oregonian is taking a pass on the presidential race. The daily told readers Aug. 14 it won’t endorse a candidate for president. Insiders say Publisher N. Chr   More

News The Oregonian as a daily newspaper is facing a final deadline. The 162-year-old newspaper—once considered one of the nation’s best—is losing readers and advertisers in a state where it dom   More

News Today, the company that owns Portland's only daily newspaper announced a redesign of its affiliated website, OregonLive.com.OregonLive hosts The Oregonian's online content, but operates as a separate company; both website and newspaper are owned by the privately held Advance Publications.The new OregonLive design looks exactly like the revamped Advance sites in New Orleans and Alabama, where Advance ...   More

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News An editor at The Oregonian says she was fired Thursday after she misled the newspaper about the death of the O’s long-time editorial page chief, Bob Caldwell. Kathleen Glanville, a veteran editor on the newspaper’s breaking news team, says she was trying to prevent Caldwell’s family from embarrassment about the circumstances of his death on March 10. The newspaper reported on OregonLive on Sunday ...   More