Rick Attig

Last updated

Rick Attig is an American journalist and author, formerly a member of the editorial board for The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon. He was a 2008 Knight Fellow at Stanford University [1] and twice shared the Pulitzer Prize. [2]

Attig was born and raised in Corvallis, Oregon. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism and political science in 1983 from the University of Oregon. Before he graduated, he was working as a reporter for the now-defunct Springfield News in Springfield, Oregon. In 1984 he joined The Bulletin daily newspaper in Bend, Oregon where he held a number of positions including senior writer, editorial page editor, and, beginning in 1995, executive editor. From 1998 to 2012, he was associate editor and member of the editorial board for The Oregonian in Portland. He has been recognized in his field with over 40 national, state, and regional awards. [2] Attig was part of a group of Oregonian writers that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles and editorials about abuses in the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. [1] In 2006, he shared with his friend and colleague Doug Bates the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, as well as the National Headliners 1st Place Award, [3] and he was a finalist for the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award [1] for his editorial writing about abuse of the mentally ill at the Oregon State Hospital. [2]

In October 2015, Attig was inducted in the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication's Hall of Achievement. [1]

Attig earned a MFA in fiction in 2010 from Pacific University. [4] His short stories have appeared in several anthologies and literary magazines. His wife, Courtenay Thompson, is also a writer and editor. Attig has two sons, Mitchell, 33, who works in environmental restoration in Portland, and Will, 20, a student at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the Irish fencing team. [5]

Related Research Articles

<i>The Oregonian</i> Daily newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, U.S.

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned by Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. West Coast, founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 4, 1850, and published daily since 1861. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest by circulation. It is one of the few newspapers with a statewide focus in the United States. The Sunday edition is published under the title The Sunday Oregonian. The regular edition was published under the title The Morning Oregonian from 1861 until 1937.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing</span> American journalism award

The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism. It has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year. The program has also recognized opinion journalism with its Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning from 1922.

<i>The Stranger</i> (newspaper) Alternative biweekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington

The Stranger is an alternative biweekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington, U.S. The paper's principal competitor is The Seattle Weekly, owned by Sound Publishing, Inc.

<i>Willamette Week</i> Alternative weekly newspaper in Portland, Oregon, United States

Willamette Week (WW) is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business, and culture.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ben Hur Lampman</span> American journalist

Ben Hur Lampman was an American newspaper editor, essayist, short story writer, and poet. He was a longtime associate editor at The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, and he served as Poet laureate of Oregon from 1951 until his death.

Richard Read is a freelance reporter based in Seattle, where he was a national reporter and bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times from 2019 to 2021. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he was a senior writer and foreign correspondent for The Oregonian, working for the Portland, Oregon newspaper from 1981 to 1986 and 1989 until 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nigel Jaquiss</span> American journalist

Nigel Jaquiss is an American journalist who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, for his work exposing former Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl while he was mayor of Portland, Oregon. His story was published in Willamette Week in May 2004. He continues to write for Willamette Week.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matt Bors</span> American cartoonist (born 1983)

Matt Bors is a nationally syndicated American editorial cartoonist and editor of online comics publication The Nib. Formerly the comics journalism editor for Cartoon Movement, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and 2020, and became the first alt-weekly cartoonist to win the Herblock Prize for Excellence in Cartooning.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Canzano</span> American sports journalist

John Canzano is an American sports columnist, radio talk show host on Portland's 750 AM "The Game". The show is also syndicated in Eugene. and Klamath Falls, Oregon. From 2002 to 2022, he was the lead sports columnist at The Oregonian and a sports commentator on KGW-TV, Portland's NBC affiliate. He now writes his column at JohnCanzano.com and hosts a daily radio show called The Bald-Faced Truth.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Ohman</span> American cartoonist

Jack Ohman is an American editorial cartoonist and educator. He is currently a contributing opinion columnist and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He formerly worked for The Sacramento Bee and the The Oregonian. His work is syndicated nationwide to over 300 newspapers by Tribune Media Services. In 2016, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

William Arthur Hilliard was an American journalist. He was editor of The Oregonian, the major daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon, from 1987 to 1994 and was that newspaper's first African-American editor. He was also president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1993–94.

R. Jeffrey Smith is a managing director of RosettiStarr LLC, a corporate security and intelligence firm, where he leads investigative work and conducts corporate risk analysis for attorneys, management teams, and investors worldwide. Its clients include corporate enterprises with global operations major private equity firms and hedge funds with a combined $650 billion in assets under management. He joined Rosetti Starr in November 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harvey W. Scott</span> American journalist (1838–1910)

Harvey Whitefield Scott (1838–1910) was an American pioneer who traveled to Oregon in 1852. Scott was a long-time editorialist, and eventual part owner of The Oregonian newspaper. Scott was regarded by his contemporaries as instrumental in bringing the state of Oregon firmly into the political camp of the Republican Party.

<i>The Beacon</i> (University of Portland)

The Beacon is the student-run newspaper of the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, United States. The current name of the paper at the private, Catholic school was adopted in 1935. The weekly paper is published each Thursday and is a member of the College Publisher Network.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wallace Turner</span> American journalist and government administrator

Wallace Turner was an American journalist and government administrator. A native of Florida, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 while working for The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon. Turner later worked in the Kennedy administration before returning to the newspaper business where he worked for The New York Times.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Rosenthal (journalist)</span> Journalist, government official, executive

Jacob "Jack" Rosenthal was an American journalist, editor and executive best known for his work at The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1982.

Kathleen Kingsbury is an American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and editor. She is The New York Times's Opinion Editor.

Journalism in the U.S. state of Oregon had its origins from the American settlers of the Oregon Country in the 1840s. This was decades after explorers like Robert Gray and Lewis and Clark first arrived in the region, several months before the first newspaper was issued in neighboring California, and several years before the United States formally asserted control of the region by establishing the Oregon Territory.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sandra Mims Rowe</span> American journalist

Sandra Mims Rowe is an American journalist. She is the former editor of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia, and of The Oregonian, in Portland, Oregon. She was one of the few women editors of metro newspapers in the 1980s, and was the first woman editor at The Virginian-Pilot and The Oregonian. She was the second female president of the American Society of News Editors, a decade after Kay Fanning, the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, was the first.

Bryan Denson is an American author and investigative journalist who often writes about spies, terrorists, and other national security issues. His work won the 2006 George Polk Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize during his 20-year career at The Oregonian newspaper and oregonlive.com.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Stanford Fellows".
  2. 1 2 3 "Stanford".
  3. ↑ "Headliner Awards".
  4. ↑ "Master of Fine Arts in Writing (MFA)". Pacific University. 2017-09-15. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  5. ↑ "home". USA Fencing. Retrieved 2024-01-22.

http://biz.oregonian.com/newsroom/?sec=48&tert=32 http://www.headlinerawards.com/Winners2006Print.html

http://asne.org

Flag of the United States.svg

This article about a United States journalist born in the 20th century is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.