Brent Walth, University of Oregon
CCN Faculty Champion
Center for Community News
BIO
Brent Walth is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Brent has worked as a staff writer and managing editor for Willamette Week; Oregon State Capitol correspondent for the Eugene Register-Guard; and Washington, D.C., correspondent and senior investigative reporter for The Oregonian. Brent also served as a 2006 Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard University.
He's a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award, the nation’s top honor for business and financial reporting, and at The Oregonian, he shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The UO School of Journalism and Communication inducted Brent into its Hall of Achievement in 2014.
At the SOJC, Brent teaches writing and reporting courses, including Investigative Reporting, Data Journalism and Solutions Journalism. Brent is co-founder and director of the award-winning Catalyst Journalism Project, which has helped scores of SOJC journalists publish their work with professional news organizations. Brent also serves as co-director of the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism, which selects and places interns at news organizations around Oregon.
Bio
Brent Walth is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Brent has worked as a staff writer and managing editor for Willamette Week; Oregon State Capitol correspondent for the Eugene Register-Guard; and Washington, D.C., correspondent and senior investigative reporter for The Oregonian. Brent also served as a 2006 Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard University.
He's a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award, the nation’s top honor for business and financial reporting, and at The Oregonian, he shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The UO School of Journalism and Communication inducted Brent into its Hall of Achievement in 2014.
At the SOJC, Brent teaches writing and reporting courses, including Investigative Reporting, Data Journalism and Solutions Journalism. Brent is co-founder and director of the award-winning Catalyst Journalism Project, which has helped scores of SOJC journalists publish their work with professional news organizations. Brent also serves as co-director of the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism, which selects and places interns at news organizations around Oregon.