After a 10-year hiatus, Cascadia Times is reviving its print edition. Founded and edited by Paul Koberstein since its inception in 1996, Cascadia Times has published hard-hitting investigative environmental journalism from the Cascadia Bioregion: Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Montana, Idaho and Northern California, as well as marine ecosystems in the North Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea and the Arctic.
Going to a web-only format in 2009 like so many other publications in the Internet Age was a difficult decision for Koberstein, who had been a reporter at The Oregonian and Willamette Week before starting up Cascadia Times. Now, he's bucking the trend by going back to ink on paper. He joins host Paul Roland, along with co-editor Jessica Applegate, to talk about that choice and the prospects for a quarterly magazine in a town already hosting an unusual number of print newspapers and magazines.
While keeping his magazine's website going for the past ten years, Koberstein has also been a frequent contributor to the Portland Tribune and Sustainable Life, reporting and often breaking important stories on air and water pollution in the Portland area, including Bullseye Glass and Precision Castparts.
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