The Resistance Issue
Welcome to the seventh edition of OR Magazine, a digital publication produced by students at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
While brainstorming as a team in our pre-production stage, we decided on an overarching theme for the issue: Resistance. Through our stories we broaden the definition of the word, illustrating five diverse groups of Oregonians resisting hardship differently. Each of the five stories examplifies an aspect of resistance: persevere, withstand, coexist, adapt and persist.
The goal of this issue was to give a voice to the issues that affect the state, while telling the subjects’ stories empathetically. The idea of empathetic journalism was inspired by the late Alex Tizon, a Pulitzer-winning journalist and assistant professor at the SOJC. He was and is revered for his empathetic style of storytelling–never seeking out a story for his own benefit, but rather to give a voice to people and places largely overlooked. As a staff, we endeavor to continue Tizon’s journalistic legacy in each of the stories included in this issue.
Abby Beach, Editor
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Coexist
When corporations move in: Local businesses surviving with the help of their communities
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Adapt
Closed doors; open questions: How the libraries of Oregon are being redefined
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Closing of the Roseburg, Oregon libraries. Video by Helen Werner.
Preserve
Environmental protection: It’s on us
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Withstand
A generation at home: Housing prices have millennials opting to stay with their parents, changing American family dynamics in the process
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Persist
Protection and industrialization: How the Cow Creek tribe of Oregon sought economic stability through the tiber industry
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