Will Campbell

3 weeks ago | columbian.com | Will Campbell

Columbian Photo Editor Amanda Cowan spent five days at a photojournalism workshop in New York City last week sharpening her skills. I wanted to share some of the things she learned that she’ll bring to her work here at The Columbian. The workshop, Finding Your Vision, run by legendary photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, allows a select handful of photojournalists to study the Webbs’ work and have their own photographs of life in New York City critiqued.

4 weeks ago | columbian.com | Will Campbell

News / Clark County News By Will Campbell, Columbian Editor Published: May 10, 2025, 6:10am Try estimating how many people are in the above photograph. Now, how do our reporters measure the size of crowds when covering an event or a protest? We often get feedback about our crowd-size estimates from readers. They really care about getting that number as accurate as possible. The demand for crowd sizes in our news stories actually seems to be growing — a trend that parallels the recent uptick...

1 month ago | columbian.com | Will Campbell

News / Clark County News By Will Campbell, Columbian Editor Published: May 3, 2025, 6:10am Every day, I am grateful to be a journalist in the United States. Today, on World Press Freedom Day, it’s important to celebrate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of the press. Our Founding Father Thomas Jefferson once said that he’d rather have “newspapers without a government” than a “government without newspapers.” Independent newsrooms with no political ties best...

1 month ago | columbian.com | Will Campbell

Here are some things I found in The Columbian’s newsroom in the past few weeks. Eggs: On Monday, our reporting staff searched for plastic Easter eggs filled with cash and candy in our newsroom. Local News Editor Jessica Prokop orchestrated the egg hunt with my help. We made the eggs more and more difficult to find. One we chucked onto a metal ledge about 10 feet high. It took a stick to swipe it down. We wedged a blue egg into a matching blue plastic airhorn.

1 month ago | columbian.com | Will Campbell

On Thursday, we did something new: We published a story in Spanish after hiring a translator named Rocio Rios. The story by education reporter Brianna Murschel is about students in public schools translating for their peers who aren’t proficient in English. I thought given the topic, it would be fitting to offer the story in Spanish as well.