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QuickTake:
Lookout Eugene-Springfield launches a new reader experience including quicker and easier access to stories, guest columns and editorials.
If you visit Lookout Eugene-Springfield on your desktop or laptop, you will now notice something different.
Today, we launched a new version of the Lookout homepage with a simple goal: to highlight the work of our newsroom, the second-largest in Oregon.
The journalists at 771 Willamette St. in Eugene are routinely creating more than a dozen items every day, from reported stories, photo galleries, editorials, guest opinions, letters to the editor and newsletters. And we’ve made it easier for you to pick and choose among them, each day and go back in time.
We regularly host community members to share their experiences and what they want from Lookout. And we heard that they could use help in finding all that we publish, now hundreds of items a month. We made this design change in response to that feedback and thank those who offered advice. (Are you interested in joining a “Lookout Listens” session? Let us know.)
But a new homepage isn’t the only change as we also launched a new Latest News page with a feature also directly inspired by our readers.
This is a place to see everything published by day, going all the way back to our first story, Ben Botkin’s exclusive on the Oregon State Hospital and the death of a Lane County man, Kenneth Hass. We are a newspaper, a digital-only newspaper, and we are fast becoming a newspaper of record for Lane County. That means paying attention to the community’s (and librarians’) research needs and making it easy to find news published on a specific day. We also think the teachers in our fast-expanding Lookout for Teachers program will find this feature useful in their classes.
If you use your phone to read Lookout, you’ll see some changes too, but they are a bit more subtle.
I want to know what you think of the new design so we can continue refining it and deliver the best possible experience. And tell us what one thing we could do for you to make reading Lookout better. Email me at dann@lookoutlocal.com.
Dean Rea intern
We are excited to announce the first Dean Rea Intern, Lucas Hellberg.
Lucas is a third-year University of Oregon journalism student and will focus on helping us build the most complete and robust coverage of the midterm elections in Lane County.
Lucas was a Snowden intern at the East Oregonian last summer and will intern at the Las Vegas Review-Journal this summer.
This internship honors Dea Rea, who, for more than 50 years, has mentored hundreds of Oregon journalists. He was inducted into the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication Hall of Achievement in 2006, the same year he was named the school’s Adjunct Teacher of the Year.
Lucas’ internship starts this week and runs through June.
Elections are fundamental to our democracy and having an informed electorate is vital. That’s why all our election coverage will be free for everyone. Watch for news of our election coverage and our plans for candidate forums soon. Our members and marketing partners make our election commitment possible.
If you are a member, thank you. If you are not, please join us today to get full access to all we publish, help pay our 16 journalists and support independent local news.
Community responds to ICE
The first indication of our community’s massive response to actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents came last summer when nearly 10,000 people showed up for the first No Kings march downtown and when thousands attended the second No Kings march in October.
Things took a turn this year as hundreds converged on the Eugene Federal Building to protest ICE’s actions and the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
On three occasions, these demonstrations turned violent with federal agents using tear gas, pepper spray and other less-lethal munitions to clear protesters from the courtyard at Pearl Street and Seventh Avenue. Isaac Wasserman captured images of canisters being thrown from above and Lilly St. Angelo, Jaime Adame, Michael Zhang, Ben Botkin and Ashli Blow were among our reporters affected by chemicals lingering in the air.
Our journalists were there keeping watch, documenting what happened. Our correspondents worked in pairs, rotating every hour to provide an in-depth look at events on the ground.
These confrontations in Eugene elicited a direct response from President Trump that included the vague threat to “BEWARE of ICE.”
Lookout Eugene-Springfield reporters were there every day, watching and documenting our community’s response to ICE. Most of this coverage is free for all readers and can be easily accessed here.
We thank our members for their support, which enables us to keep the entire community updated on how our community is reacting. If you are not a member, please consider joining and supporting this work.
The team at Lookout Eugene-Springfield will continue to report on the impacts of ICE on our community and how our community responds.
