The Western Edge
The Western Edge, Leah Sottile, Ryan Haas, Alexandra DugganJournalism that cuts through.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 30 | Founded | 8 months ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Journalism Live: Election Security and Mail-In Voting
Journalism can be an opaque process. It’s not always clear how reporters get their information or arrive at the stories they publish.
So, we wanted to try a new experiment at The Western Edge. We are taking you inside our reporting proces...
40 Days, No Food: The Amazon Worker Starving Himself to Protest the Company
Italo Medelius is someone who embraces losing.
There was the time someone broke his nose inside the kickboxing ring. “Name of the game folks!” he wrote in a caption on Instagram, a selfie with blood staining his white spandex a deep rust c...
DEI at Oregon Parks is Lost in the Woods
Central Oregon’s Smith Rock State Park [Photo by Leah Sottile]
Three years ago, in April 2023, Julie Graves stepped to the front of a resort conference room in Redmond, Oregon to give a presentation about diversity, equity and inclusion —...
The State of the Edge
The Western Edge: Ryan Haas and Leah Sottile [Photo by Holly Andres]
Six months ago, we lit the fuse of The Western Edge and launched it up into the sky: a hope and a prayer that we could create a news outlet free from some of the problems...
‘Give Your Mind Over’: Power and Devotion Inside Oregon Buddhist Communities
The Western Edge is a journalist-owned media outlet devoted to investigative reporting in the Pacific Northwest. We are one-hundred percent powered by reader subscriptions. For $10 a month, or $110 per year, you keep us digging up stories a...
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A new type of journalism from the Pacific Northwest.
Author of Blazing Eye Sees All and When the Moon Turns to Blood. Host of Bundyville, Two Minutes Past Nine, Burn Wild, Hush. Freelance journalist.
Oregon Journalist • Podcast producer • Hush • Bundyville • Dying for a Fight
Spokane, WA. Reporter.
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