Kevin Tighe

Disclaimer: While place descriptions and news events may coincide with the real world, all characters and the plot are fictional.
== Biography ==
=== Eyewitness News ===
==== Book 1: Stories We Tell ====
In the 2009/2010 academic year, the Student Fee committee decided to put the Portland Review out of business, and cut $7k from the Student Media budget. However the Review isn't funded by Student Fees, but by a subsidy from the English department, grants and sales. EWN appealed all the way to the PSU President, but while he agreed it was an error, he told Kevin, who was then EIC, to live with it. Before Kevin was done, he had completely revamped how EWN did it's budgets, and had the relocation to the EWN building underway, setting up the framework for what EWN would become. Kevin says it ate up his life for a number of years.
He was later Folio editor.
Ryan Matthews recalls that Kevin was the editor-in-chief when Ryan first joined EWN in Fall 2015. 
On Tuesday June 2, 2020, Kevin and Pete Madison arrive at EWN with a childproof gate for the front counter in the newsroom. Kevin logs into the EWN computers and installs an app while Pete installs the gate.
Kevin, Pete and Claire wait up into the early hours of the morning for Ryan to return home after Cage is shot with a non-lethal bullet. Both Corey and Cage had called them. Ryan thinks he's a coward, but Kevin says that Ryan is gifted with a great imagination, which is what makes him a good reporter. He can see all aspects of the story, get inside someone's head and see the world through their eyes. And that's what made the night so terrifying for Ryan, he could see all the things that could go wrong, but also because of that he could do an amazingly quick and thorough triage. On the fly, with no experience, Ryan did everything right, and Kevin is proud of him.
====Book 4: Hold Me====
*Tuesday December 1, 2020 - 6pm: Cage sees Kevin's pickup as he arrives, and leaves the elevator unlocked for him. Kevin and another loft-mate are move a couch in via the elevator. Cage helps them get it out and asks if Kevin is raiding PSU's surplus lot. Kevin agrees he is, and says he also plundered a Goodwill drop-off bin for clothing. The Crow's Nest is being transformed: boxes are being used to build a screen around beds at one end, and the living room area at the other, with a kitchen/eating area in the middle. The kitchen consists of bar fridges, a couple of microwaves and a hotplate. Kevin tells Cage the Crow's Nest was well done, Gregory had told him they've been using it to give sanctuary to independent journalists. Kevin said he'd contacted other alumni, and there will be more arriving with donations of things like bottled water. He tells Cage to make a list of what they need, as his sources say the outbreak is going to get bad. Cage tells Kevin about the need for thermometers, and asks for one mattress to be dropped off in the Review office, and another couple for the newsroom for those who haven't been exposed. Kevin asks about the staff, and Cage tells him about Joanna and the sports journalists. Kevin says he can call former sports editors and see if anyone can pitch in.
*Wednesday December 2, 2020 - AM: Kevin supplies a box of thermometers that can be used once then sterilized.
=== Work ===
=== Book 1: Stories We Tell ===
Kevin works doing sound setup and occasional security for a company that produces some of the biggest events and shows in Portland, but he hasn't had a gig in months.
== Physical Appearance ==
=== Book 1: Stories We Tell ===
Ryan Matthews thinks Kevin is about 40, and looks like "Santa, if Santa was mestizo". 
Cage thinks Kevin looks like Burl Ives, if Burl had been of Mexican-mesitzo descent.
== Personality ==
=== Book 1: Stories We Tell ===
Ryan Matthews thinks Kevin Tighe is one of the smartest men he knows. What Kevin is renowned for though is his ability to scrounge. If you need something, you call Kevin. And they say the first thing he scrounged was the EWN building.
== Relationships ==
=== Friends ===
==== Ryan Matthews ====
Kevin is 'wired into the city'. He may not play in high-income BDSM clubs himself, but he knows Ryan once played there.
== Residence ==
Kevin is the 'house manager' at the Loft in NW Portland, and the defacto keeper of some of the bright but eccentric residents there.
His rooms are on the south end of the ground floor of the Loft.
=== Book 1: Stories We Tell ===
On Friday evening May 29, 2020 Kevin and Pete Madison watch EWN's broadcast of the protest march and stay up into the early hours on Saturday morning in case the videographers need backup. When Ryan arrives home, they talk to him about safety precautions, Kevin offers to find safety gear for the EWN staff covering the protests. Ryan tells them EWN staff are considering expanding to year-round broadcasting. Kevin agrees it probably should be done, questions whether the costs can be covered. He also asks if this is what Ryan personally wants to do, and if Ryan is willing to commit the time. 
That afternoon, before returning to the newsroom, Ryan talks to Kevin about Turk's experience the previous night. Kevin goes down to the Loft's basement and comes up with sacks of clean towels and sweats that can be kept in a locker at EWN for anyone who needs them.
On the morning of January 9, 2021, Kevin builds a soapbox in a parking space outside the entrance of the EWN building. He also provides a cordless microphone.
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