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Longtime KOIN-TV reporter and anchor Jenny Hansson became the latest high-profile television newsperson this week to move to a government position.
Hansson, who spent nearly 20 years at KOIN, joins another new hire, Steve Berman, among the state’s top elections lawyers, on the staff of the new attorney general, Dan Rayfield.
As any TV news veteran knows, three makes a trend: Hansson joins longtime KGW-TV reporter and anchor Pat Dooris, who left Channel 8 in December after nearly 35 years to become the spokesman for Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez. In that position, Dooris will overlap with former longtime KGW colleague Mike Benner, who in 2023 became the first civilian spokesperson for the Portland Police Bureau.
Hansson says she felt her journalism skills would serve her well in a new role.
“I was in television news for almost three decades, and I loved that job,” Hansson tells WW. “But I felt like I had done all I wanted to do, and I wanted to make more of an impact with the skills I gained in journalism. I jumped at the chance to apply when I saw this job opening.”