Street Roots maintains an internal set of criteria and considerations regarding interview practices for unhoused Portlanders. Compassion and consent lead the way. Street Roots often receives praise from readers for including the triumphs, concerns and exp ...
6 Jul 2022 - SR editorial board
There’s a strained saying about being a journalist that essentially amounts to, ‘the pay is bad and the hours are horrible, but at least everyone hates you.’ While there is some truth to the saying, as there would be with any public-facing job, Street Roo ...
24 May 2022 - K. Rambo
A collection of impactful and important stories from a 12-month period Dear reader, When the editorial team set out to curate the Spring Anthology issues, we knew we had a tough task before us; to parse more than 800 pages with only 32 to fill. Curating a ...
20 Apr 2022 - K. Rambo
When Portland City Council announced an unanimous decision to sweep Laurelhurst Park a few weeks ago, no one would go on record to talk about it A united Portland City Council announced a unanimous decision to sweep Laurelhurst Park a few weeks ago — a sy ...
18 Aug 2021 -
You can’t dismiss President Trump's anti-press rhetoric as simply hyperbole Remember when the phrase “alternative facts” was laughably absurd? It was the term coined by a White House spokesperson a few days after the Trump administration took office ...
16 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board