My afternoon reporting class had the privilege of hearing from another impressive journalist. Cornelius Swart is the editor and publisher of The Sentinel, a monthly newspaper serving North and parts of Northeast Portland. It's a diverse are of the city that has gone through a painful past when it was the only area of the city where African-Americans could live in to now when it's becoming gentrified. He is filled with passion, wisdom and stories. Lots of stories. He actually has a degree in filmmaking, and has done a documentary film on the neighborhood. The paper is has a circulation of 26,000 and it's in multimedia format online also. Cornelius is involved in an important project called the Portland Media Lab. Here's what it says on their Website: "Over the past six months Portland Media Lab has conducted a series of in- person, online, and group discussions and “salons” aimed at developing a needs-assessment study for the “journalist community” in the Portland, Ore. media market. The following projects represent services, resources and support that PML believes the media market needs in order to sustain robust public-benefit reporting and journalism."
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