Bill Jameson

Disclaimer: While place descriptions and news events may coincide with the real world, all characters and the plot are fictional. 
== Biography ==
=== Eyewitness News ===
== Physical Appearance == 
Bill 'The Copyediting God' Jameson was the EWN copy-editor when Emily Andersen started. He had taught her to write, and he treasures her respect. 
The editors would kneel down, and do solemn bows, chanting their allegiance to the Copyediting God, until Bill would nod and condescend to finish editing the news copy.
However, he was an functional alcoholic. After leaving EWN, Bill lost his battle with alcohol, developed an alcohol-use disorder and is now homeless. He occasionally kept in touch with Cage, having a beer in a building stairwell and gossiping. Bill still writes, and keeps a dry box for a few books and his journals. Periodically he trades the books, and Cage collects the journals and stores them in a locked trunk in his garage.
During the COVID surge in December 2020, Bill tells Cage that there is COVID in the homeless campdown 12th Avenue, where it takes a jog down a wide, paved sidewalk or narrow road, to a hidden staircase. The stairs lead down to a protected area that got left behind during the construction of the I-405. Bill and a dozen other homeless people have created a camp of tents, lean-tos and tarps. Cage contacts McShane and suggests an immediate collaboration between PSU and his mother's charity We Help to be called Safe Haven. The homeless, including Bill, are placed in empty student residences. Bill manages to stay sober, and become the house manager for around 30 people in the homeless group, tutoring those who need to get their GEDs. Martha Washington wants Bill to work for Safe Haven, as he likes the work and understands the homeless. 
In January 2021, Bill sees Randy Daily shoot through the front door of the EWN building, and tracks him to the sniper blind that Pete built on the roof in October 2020. Bill saw Daily leave after shooting at McShane, and get into a car. He tells Cage that Daily is now sleeping in the old viaduct homeless camp. They meet Jorge Ramirez at the EWN building, and Cage introduces Bill as an EWN alumni working with Safe Haven.
== Physical Appearance ==
Bill is tall and stoop-shouldered, with black hair, fair skin and blue eyes.
Bill smokes, often chain-smoking on the EWN fire escape while working there. He was rarely seen before dark, or sober.
== Personality ==
He is caustic, insightful, and witty. He stays informed, and reads constantly, but can't give up alcohol, or keep a job. He'd been hired and fired by every media outlet in Portland.
Category:Alumni