Radio Active Magazine

Lisa Loving talks with Spencer Graves about media literacy and how you can report for your community. Loving has a wide range of experience as a journalist, including as interim director of the evening news at KBOO, a non-commercial, listener-supported, community radio station in Portland, Oregon. Her experience with KBOO helped inform her 2019 book, Street Journalist. She is working on another book with a tentative title, Watchdog: Investigative Tools for Community Reporters. Highlights Lisa said, "everyday people have the knowledge and skills to report on stuff. You don't have to get a master's degree in journalism ... . [S]ome of the very best newspapers in America today are high school newspapers. In my town, Portland, Oregon, Grant High School's newspaper [is] amazing." Lisa also said that advertising people started newspapers. She described an ad salesman named Ford, who had previously sold used cars but did not drive himself. He made friends with every merchant in a major business district in Portla