When newspapers provide free advertising for their own reporting staff

When newspapers provide free advertising for their own reporting staff

The reporter had previously been hired by The Oregonian to cover this story.

On Sunday, March 19th, this is the #1, “top of the fold” story on their web site.

The story content printed by the Oregonian adds nothing new to the original reporting – it is a free advertisement for the author’s new book and tells us that the author will be at Powell’s City of Books on May 7th to talk about her book.

This is a fricken’ free advertisement – not a news report.

This is Journalism, 2023:

Reporter and author Roxanne Asgarian uncovers the grim history of the six adopted children in her new book, “We Were Once a Family,” which highlights the disturbing failures of the child welfare system.

Source: ‘I knew it was a bigger story’: Hart family murder-suicide story uncovers a failure of the foster care system – oregonlive.com

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