OR Magazine

06/07/2019

Here's the behind-the-scenes video for OR Magazine 2019. This year’s team did a stellar job. The magazine itself is accessible now at http://ormagazine.net.
This current version is best viewed on desktop computers. We’re still finalizing the mobile version.

05/27/2019

Some photos from our treehouse adventure.

05/07/2019

on location in Cave Junction, OR to check out the world-renowned Tree Resort.

01/31/2019

A video story from our 2019 Response Issue won a national award. Congrats to Justin Rimerman.

First Place, Video Feature Package, Gold Circle Awards, Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Justin Rimerman, "Living and Learning Authentically: An Inclusive Space for LGBTQIA+ Students."

The Columbia Scholastic Press Association announces the winners from its 36th Gold Circle Awards program. This year, these categories attracted 5309 yearbook and digital media entries submitted in 91 categories.These entries come from publications produced by students at colleges, universities, and....

12/16/2018

The Columbia Scholastic Press Association has named the Solutions Issue of OR Magazine a crown award winner. This issue was an initiative of the The Catalyst Journalism Project at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Congrats to all of the students who worked on this issue!

CSPA Selects Crown Award Finalists for Magazine and News PublicationsThese entries were produced during the 2017-2018 academic year. The actual awards will be presented in New York City during March 2019. Because CSPA dates its awards by the year in which they are presented, they are known as the 20...

06/08/2018

Download the 2018 Response Issue. (The link below is an automatic download of an ePub, which is optimized for an iPhone. It can also be viewed on an iPad or on a Mac.)

The Response Issue
Problems persist across the globe. We hear about them frequently, but we don’t always learn about the responses to these problems. Negative news reports flood mass media channels and typically don’t include any solutions, often leaving us to wonder what we can do to help.

So, in the eighth edition of OR Magazine, we report on six workable responses across Oregon.

Solutions journalism is a reporting approach that takes the problem narrative of a story and flips it 180 degrees. It unveils responses to problems by presenting evidence of success, potential limitations and insights that can help others respond, too. America’s trust in the news media is low, but solutions journalism might help restore the broken trust with impactful and rigorous reporting of viable responses to social problems.

Incorporating solutions journalism techniques, 19 reporters, multimedia journalists and designers collaborated to create The Response Issue. We found interesting efforts on our campus and around the state, such as inclusive academic programs and residential living spaces, nonprofit organizations partnering with each other to create change and new approaches to old environmental problems.

Our overarching goal is that you gain insight from our stories about actions for change in Oregon and that you will be inspired to respond, too.

Cecilia Siauw, 2018 editor-in-chief

06/08/2018

Celebrate the release of the 2018 issue.

06/03/2018

Final edits to the 2018 issue happening now. We launch Thursday.

05/22/2018

Coming soon: the 2018 issue of OR Magazine.

05/21/2018

Delighted to announce that an article from the 2017 issue of OR Magazine (The Resistance Issue) is a National Winner in the 2017 SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards (http://www.spj.org/moe17.asp).

Best Use of Multimedia: National Winner
Closed doors; open questions - by Ian Mullin, Mackenzie Moran, Morgan Krakow, Helen Werner and Jason Yun

The issue also won the following SPJ Region 10 Mark of Excellence Awards:

Best Independent Online Student Publication
Finalist: OR Magazine - by Staff of OR Magazine, University of Oregon

Online Feature Reporting
Finalist: When corporations move in - by Staff of OR Magazine, University of Oregon

Best Use of Multimedia
Winner: Closed doors; open questions - by Staff of OR Magazine, University of Oregon
Finalist: Environmental protection: It’s on us - by Staff of OR Magazine, University of Oregon

Wonderful recognition for these University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication students.

05/15/2018

Story team meeting at OR Magazine. We are about three weeks away from publication of the 2018 issue.

05/12/2018

Behind the scenes of a reporting trip. The 2018 issue will be published in early June.