Writing clips

From the Steeves archives:

News (front page, multiple days): I was part of an award-winning news team that covered the Clackamas Town Center shooting. I was the first reporter to the scene, where I Tweeted what was happening and talked to as many people as I could, leading to most of these vignettes. Months later, police released their entire investigation. I weeded through 1,000 pages of reports to write about the small, important acts of heroism from common people that day, one about a sock-selling Marine who saved her employees, another about a man who shielded his wife from the shooter and helped a fatally-injured woman. Seeing a strange trend in all the witness statements I reported on why so many people at the mall misread the shooter.

Business cover: Happy Valley was arguably the hardest-hit city in Oregon when the housing bubble burst. When it rebounded, I wrote a feature about it. I followed that up a few months later with a quick-hit: What did the city’s “complaint” calls say about the city’s growth?

And from my time in Maine: