Mierad Media

I’m a retired newspaper reporter, columnist, photographer and editor who worked at weeklies and small dailies, mostly in Eastern Oregon. I retired from the East Oregonian, published in Pendleton, in 2011. During my career I worked at the Oregon Journal, Portland’s afternoon daily; The Bulletin in Bend; edited The Redmond Spokesman, 1975-1977; edited the Democrat-Herald in Baker, 1977-1984; city editor at the Grants Pass Daily Courier, 1984-85; edited the Newport News-Times/Lincoln County Leader, 1985-1988; Sunday editor at the Herald & News, Klamath Falls, 1988-89; returned as editor of the Democrat-Herald, where I worked from 1989-1999. While there, we changed the newspaper’s name to the Baker City Herald because city voters decided to change the city’s name from Baker to the historic name, Baker City. I worked for the weekly Record-Courier in Baker from 1999-2001, then started my own publishing company. In 2003, I joined the staff at the East Oregonian, Pendleton, and retired from the newspaper business in 2011.