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Nigel Jaquiss: Willamette Week [Podcast]
“I’m Interested in Telling Stories”
When Nigel was in his early 30’s his father died unexpectedly, and his mother succumbed to lung cancer not long after. “That really focused me on the obvious fact that life was short,” he said. After the birth of his first daughter, he began asking himself if he was really doing what he wanted to do. Ultimately he decided that the answer was no.
He’d always loved writing, so Nigel decided to leave his oil trading career and try his hand at a novel. But like any good oil trader, he had a back up plan ready in case it didn’t pan out. For Nigel, it was journalism school. “My backup plans turned out to be my plans,” he joked.
After earning his Master’s grad from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997, Nigel was hired at Portland’s Willamette Week and began turning out the high level investigative journalism he’s known for today.
After landing in journalism, Nigel stumbled into
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People Who Love an Iconic Oregon River Say an Electric Utility Is Harming It
MAUPIN, Ore. — Alysia Littleleaf and her husband, Elke, make their living as fishing guides on the lower Deschutes River, near the Warm Springs Reservation.
A major tributary of the Columbia River, the Deschutes irrigates farmland, generates electricity, and is the lifeblood of huvud Oregon’s biggest industry, tourism. The river and its high desert landscape epitomize the region’s rugged beauty. Visitors come to raft, hike, bike, camp and fish on what legendary Oregon outdoors writer Harry Teel once deemed “the finest overall fly-fishing river in western America.”
Yet the Littleleafs, along with other guides, fishermen and environmentalists, have marshaled bevis that the river today fryst vatten ailing—and getting worse.
“The fish in the Deschutes have been very significant to our people for time immemorial,” says Alysia Littleleaf, 40, a member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. “They can’t speak f
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Nigel Jaquiss
American journalist
Nigel Jaquiss (born 1962) is an American journalist who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prizefor investigative reporting, for his work exposing former Oregon GovernorNeil Goldschmidt's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl while he was mayor of Portland, Oregon.[1] His story was published in Willamette Week in May 2004. He continues to write for Willamette Week.[2]
Education and career
[edit]Jaquiss graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984;[1] he spent eleven years as a Wall Street and Singapore-based crude oil trader, working for Cargill, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. He sought a career change, eventually enrolling at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where he got his master's degree in 1997.[3]
He began his journalism career in Portland in January 1998, working for Willamette Week. One of his first major stories was an exposé of toxic mold and unsafe levels of radon at Whitaker Middle