About: Series/Author

== About the series ==
=== Newsroom PDX series ===
Eyewitness News was a typical newsroom run by students.
And then?
Police killed George Floyd.
A pandemic closed downtown Portland.
And Portland journalism will never be the same.
== About the author ==
L. J. Breedlove is former journalist writing mysteries and thrillers about what she knows: complicated people, small towns, big cities, cops, reporters, politicians, assorted bad guys.
She says, "I write about religion, and politics. About race and gender. I believe in the journalism axiom: Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. To which the labor organizer Mother Jones was supposed to have added: And in general raise hell. Works for me."
L.J. grew up on a cattle ranch and then went to college to be an oceanographer. She decided getting seasick was not a good trait for an oceanographer to have, and discovered journalism instead - a field that like people who ask questions!
As a reporter and editor, she worked in Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Texas, Washington, D.C. Then she got homesick for the Pacific Northwest and came home to work with college newspapers and teach journalism.
She is an over-educated, bleeding heart liberal with a penchant for heroes such as Jack Reacher. She isn't particularly bothered by inconsistency.
In earlier years, she was the student publications adviser at Portland State University, among other universities, and uses that insider knowledge to build the fictional world of the Newsroom PDX series. More recently, she has lead a team to design a new building for a college media department.
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