Doug Williams

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 ====
Doug Williams is a former editor-in-chief of EWN. Kevin Tighe recalls that Doug is the EIC who really stabilized the EWN broadcast component.
=== Work ===
In 2020, Doug Williams is a highly-paid employee of Hewlett Packard in Portland.
==== Book 4: Hold Me ====
* Wednesday December 2, 2020
** 10am: Doug is meeting with Ben Waters in the EWN newsroom when Cage Washington arrives. He tells Cage that most of the recent growth in COVID cases is in the 15-30year age gbracket, and market analysis show that audience segment is met by EWN. Knowing that Doug is an EWN alumni, Hewlett Packard directed him to come to find out what they need, to keep them on the air until the crisis has passed, otherwise there will be increased COVID transmission when people go home for the Christmas break and people will die. Cage says they have 10 days, as dorms will close on the 12th across the state and 50,000 students will head home. Doug asks what EWN needs, and what networking they do with the other local university student media. Cage suggests that Hewlett Packard contact Oregon State University (OSU) directly - they have a PBS station there. Cage can contact University of Oregon (UO), they can link up and share content. Doug says HP is willing to fund EWN, and the others will need to coordinate with them to get a share of the funding. Cage says that Gregory can handle that, he's quarantined but asymptomatic and needs a project. Cage tells Doug that food is their biggest obstacle, they need food delivered around 5pm daily for those working in the newsroom, and for those in the COVID ward above. Doug orders pizza delivery, and Cage takes the alumni up to talk to Gregory in the Crow's Nest, and asks them to be ready to present at the 4pm Zoom meeting.
** 4pm: After Emily opens the editors' Zoom meeting, Doug presents the offer from Hewlett Packard's civic engagement office, to underwrite expanded programming at EWN in order to reach the 20 to 30-year-old market segment. Doug says that they need two things from McShane: help with the legal and financial aspects of the contract, and approval for the supply of a mid-afternoon meal for staff and those quarantining onsite.
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