Newsroom PDX

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN ALL YOUR CHOICES SUCK?As far as the student-run Eyewitness News is concerned, J.J. is a journalist. And if he wants to cover the Black Lives Matter protests, EWN needs him there. He'll be a big name someday, the editors say.J.J.'s father is a Portland police officer, however, and he's demanding J.J. quit EWN, and quit covering the protests. Or leave home and lose his family.And J.J. must choose: his family or his future.Sometimes there are no good choices. And J.J. must choose.The first in a new-adult suspense series.Some sex. Bad language. Lots of politics. It's Portland.TW: attempted suicide.

When They Came for the JournalistsIt has been a rough year for the student-run Eyewitness News. Protests, police brutality, the pandemic, and then white supremacists built a scaffold and hung a noose outside their building. Emily Andersen is the editor, and she'll protect her staff: No matter what. No matter who. Book 6 in the Newsroom PDX suspense series.Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Of course, there is. It's Portland.

A Conservative VoiceLuke Kent had come to the student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland with a chip on his shoulder. He freely admitted it: he thought EWN was a bunch of ignorant liberals who were going to hell if they didn't repent. And he told his boss that the first day of class. She'd just laughed and asked if he was staying or going.He stayed. How could he not? These liberals flakes were the first people to accept that he was blind and wanted to write sports. The first to argue with him rather than say he shouldn't argue at all. He now had his own radio show where they did just that, in fact. He even debated the faculty advisor - on critical race theory, and wasn't that a hoot? And no hard feelings afterwards either.And then the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Book 4 in PDX Year 3, the 20th book in the Newsroom PDX books. Warning: triggers, foul language, some sex, lots of politics. It's Portland.