Craig Brown

Editor at The Columbian

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Articles

Brown: You can rent Joe Kent’s house

1 week ago | columbian.com | Craig Brown

Twice-failed Southwest Washington congressional candidate Joe Kent appears set to join the Trump administration as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Based in McLean, Va., it’s a 2,800-mile drive from Clark County. So does that mean Kent is done with Clark County? Apparently not. Multiple real estate listing sites, such as Zillow, are showing his home east of Fargher Lake is for rent, but not for sale.
Brown: Building goes, but history remains

1 month ago | columbian.com | Craig Brown

The following is presented as part of The Columbian’s Opinion content, which offers a point of view in order to provoke thought and debate of civic issues. Opinions represent the viewpoint of the author. Unsigned editorials represent the consensus opinion of The Columbian’s editorial board, which operates independently of the news department.
Final From the Newsroom: Thanks, and best wishes

2 months ago | columbian.com | Craig Brown

After almost seven years of writing this column, this is my last one. I’m retiring as editor of The Columbian and Columbian.com as of Monday. Will Campbell, whose family has owned The Columbian for four generations spanning more than a century, will take over running the newsroom. I couldn’t be more delighted for him. It’s the final step in a transition that has been in the works since I was hired for this job.
From the Newsroom: This bill would help local media

2 months ago | columbian.com | Craig Brown

With the 2025 legislative session underway, already almost 1,000 bills have been filed, and if the trend holds, another 1,000 will be filed before the 105-day session ends. One measure that leaders of news organizations will be watching carefully is Senate Bill 5400. Co-sponsored by Sen. Adrian Cortes, D-Battle Ground, it would support local journalism by creating a tax surcharge to be paid by large international technology companies.
From the Newsroom: Will we get a Trump bump?

Jan 18, 2025 | columbian.com | Craig Brown

It’s well documented that Donald Trump is no friend to the news media, but could his second term boost U.S. journalism? It very well might, according to a new report, “Journalism and Technology Trends and Predictions 2025,” published this month by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. It’s an international report, focused mostly on large news outlets, but I found some interesting things that seem applicable to local journalism, too. Take Trump, for example.
From the Newsroom: We moved the furniture

Jan 11, 2025 | columbian.com | Craig Brown

Anytime we move the furniture it gets me nostalgic for my early days at The Columbian back in the late 1980s. I had just turned 27, was new to town, newly married and looking for a full-time newspaper job. Unfortunately, The Columbian was doing layoffs. But they offered me work as a stringer. Most of my assignments were routine coverage of small-town public meetings, like the Ridgefield City Council or the La Center school board. As I recall my standard payment was $35 per story.
From the Newsroom: Meetings help meet our goals

Dec 7, 2024 | columbian.com | Craig Brown

Craig Brown is The Columbian’s editor. Contact him at 360-735-4514 or [email protected]. Photo I was sitting in a meeting this week and I started thinking about how we use meetings to shape stories and put together our print and digital products. We’ve changed these meetings quite a bit this year as we moved to more of a digital-first strategy.
From the Newsroom: News from holidays of the past

Nov 30, 2024 | columbian.com | Craig Brown

As I mentioned last week, our Thanksgiving newspaper this year was produced in advance so that it could arrive in customers’ mailboxes on Wednesday. Thursday was a postal holiday, so we had to choose between Wednesday and Friday delivery. Because the early delivery meant early deadlines, we chose a feature story about charity fundraising by Beaches Restaurant & Bar for the front page. I thought it was a perfect choice for a Thanksgiving Day paper. Holidays are good days for good news.
Steakburger remains a fond memory for generations of Clark County residents

Nov 29, 2024 | columbian.com | Craig Brown

Friday, November 29 , 2024 News / Business / Clark County Business Ten years after the iconic restaurant closed, a food truck still serves burgers in Clark County It was probably Clark County’s most popular golf course. And the hamburgers were pretty great, too. Ten years ago in May, Steakburger and the associated Golf-O-Rama served their last customers at 7120 N.E. Highway 99, in the heart of the Hazel Dell strip. By then, the original customers were bringing their grandkids and...
From the Newsroom: We don’t mean to be confusing

Nov 23, 2024 | columbian.com | Craig Brown

I will be the first to admit that our election coverage was a little confusing to print readers. As I previously reported, we pushed the election night press start late so that we could have the first returns in the Wednesday print edition. After that, we went back to regular deadlines, which meant that Wednesday’s updated returns were too late for the Thursday paper, and so on.