Scott Stoddard
@scottstoddard.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief of the family owned and independent Grants Pass Daily Courier in Southern Oregon. Newspaper journalist for 36 years and counting.
Public records requests to the rescue.
December 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Public records requests to the rescue.
Adventures in newspapering:
• Parade starts at 10 am
• Reporter and photogs back in the newsroom by 10:30 am
• Story flowed onto pages at 11 am
• Final page sent at 11:17 am
• Press starts rolling at 11:32 am; copies start hitting the streets as the *parade is still going on*!
Newsroom crushed it.
• Parade starts at 10 am
• Reporter and photogs back in the newsroom by 10:30 am
• Story flowed onto pages at 11 am
• Final page sent at 11:17 am
• Press starts rolling at 11:32 am; copies start hitting the streets as the *parade is still going on*!
Newsroom crushed it.
May 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Adventures in newspapering:
• Parade starts at 10 am
• Reporter and photogs back in the newsroom by 10:30 am
• Story flowed onto pages at 11 am
• Final page sent at 11:17 am
• Press starts rolling at 11:32 am; copies start hitting the streets as the *parade is still going on*!
Newsroom crushed it.
• Parade starts at 10 am
• Reporter and photogs back in the newsroom by 10:30 am
• Story flowed onto pages at 11 am
• Final page sent at 11:17 am
• Press starts rolling at 11:32 am; copies start hitting the streets as the *parade is still going on*!
Newsroom crushed it.
Tore up the front page and slammed the new pope news into today’s paper.
May 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Tore up the front page and slammed the new pope news into today’s paper.
A Grants Pass connection in today’s Kentucky Derby: Dutch Bros Coffee co-founder Travis Boersma owns one of the horses in the field, Owen Almighty (named after one of Boersma’s sons).
May 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A Grants Pass connection in today’s Kentucky Derby: Dutch Bros Coffee co-founder Travis Boersma owns one of the horses in the field, Owen Almighty (named after one of Boersma’s sons).
People who have lived here 50 years are telling me this is the biggest protest they’ve ever seen in Grants Pass.
April 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
People who have lived here 50 years are telling me this is the biggest protest they’ve ever seen in Grants Pass.
Grants Pass ordinances regulating camping on public property suspended for two weeks by Circuit Court judge this morning in latest homeless lawsuit against city.
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February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Grants Pass ordinances regulating camping on public property suspended for two weeks by Circuit Court judge this morning in latest homeless lawsuit against city.
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Today’s front page
January 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Today’s front page
Hot chased the black plate on A1 this morning.
January 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hot chased the black plate on A1 this morning.
The Rogue was roiling Sunday.
December 30, 2024 at 8:06 PM
The Rogue was roiling Sunday.
From our weekend edition.
December 10, 2023 at 11:26 PM
From our weekend edition.
Someone threw a brick through the Daily Courier’s main entrance glass doors last night with a vulgar message targeting a specific journalist in our newsroom. Hate mongers are alive and well in Southern Oregon.
December 9, 2023 at 6:01 PM
Someone threw a brick through the Daily Courier’s main entrance glass doors last night with a vulgar message targeting a specific journalist in our newsroom. Hate mongers are alive and well in Southern Oregon.
The defunct Medford Mail Tribune liquidated their equipment at auction last week. Vending machines sold for $10 per lot of eight. (That’s $1.25 apiece.)
October 30, 2023 at 9:40 PM
The defunct Medford Mail Tribune liquidated their equipment at auction last week. Vending machines sold for $10 per lot of eight. (That’s $1.25 apiece.)