Alumni News

Keely McMahon ’23, an SOJC advertising alum, is featured on the “This Is Oregon” podcast. She talks about working the 2024 Big Ten Football Championship for the Deutsch advertising agency.
Ammina Kothari, dean of the Gwen Ifill School of Media, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Simmons University, found mentor Leslie Steeves and developed a love of teaching while earning her master’s.
Eden McCall ’24 won first place in the 2024-2025 Hearst Journalism Awards Multimedia: Digital News category, and Ana Narayan '26 won second place in the Sports Writing category.
SOJC alum Jill Bond ’08 has been named editor of The Register Guard, where she worked two decades earlier as an intern for the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism.
SOJC alum Jonathan Bach ’16 will discuss his new book about the Bend housing crisis, “High Desert, Higher Costs,” with Associate Professor Brent Walth at Powell’s Books in Portland on April 29.
Portland Timbers CEO Heather Davis ’98 reflects on how her time at the SOJC has helped her throughout her career, from the Oval Office and law school to the NFL.
Ken Doctor ’79 has launched a new digital news site in Eugene modeled after his Pulitzer Prize–winning site in Santa Cruz, California. Lookout Eugene-Springfield will cover local news and sports.
The Business of Journalism is an SOJC class that teaches students the ins and outs of running a successful and sustainable freelance journalism business. Guest speakers offer tips and advice.
Sam Katzman ’15 was editor of FLUX magazine while at the SOJC. Now the Emmy and Webby winner makes videos for Travis Kelce.
SOJC alums Madi Steele ’14 (advertising) and Arturo Onesto Jr. ’14 (journalism) were featured in an Undergraduate Education and Student Success story about PathwayOregon graduates thriving in their jobs.