The Debrief

The JPR News team gathers to discuss the stories they've been working on this week, including PFAS chemical contamination at small water systems in California, and Jackson and Josephine County primary voters could have big impacts on the structure of their county governments.

Those are just two of the stories covered by JPR News reporters in a typically busy week. They assemble in the JX studio to add details to the issues and events, and what it took to cover them.

Our panel consists of JPR News Director Erik Neumann, Jane Vaughan, Justin Higginbottom, and Roman Battaglia.

The JPR News team gathers to discuss the stories they've been working on this week, including PFAS chemical contamination at small water systems in California, and Jackson and Josephine County primary voters could have big impacts on the structure of their county governments.

Those are just two of the stories covered by JPR News reporters in a typically busy week. They assemble in the JX studio to add details to the issues and events, and what it took to cover them.

Our panel consists of JPR News Director Erik Neumann, Jane Vaughan, Justin Higginbottom, and Roman Battaglia.

The JPR reporters gather in the JX studio to add some details to the week's issues and events, and what it took to cover them.

This week's stories include student protests at Cal Poly Humboldt, nurses picketing at Providence in Medford, and the Klamath County Sheriff's race.

Our panel consists of JPR News Director Erik Neumann, Jane Vaughan, Justin Higginbottom, and Roman Battaglia.

When the Supreme Court of the United States talks about a Southern Oregon city, that's big news. And SCOTUS did indeed talk about Grants Pass this week, hearing oral arguments over the city's treatment of homeless people.

That's just one of the stories covered by JPR News reporters in a typically busy week.

They gather in the JX studio to add some details to the week's issues and events, and what it took to cover them. Our panel consists of JPR News Director Erik Neumann, and reporters Jane Vaughan, Justin Higginbottom, and Roman Battaglia.

COVID is still with us, and so is controversy over the response to the disease. Medford's Asante Health System faces lawsuits from employees who were dismissed after refusing COVID vaccines.

That's just one of the stories covered by JPR News reporters in a typically busy week. They gather in the JX studio to add some details to the week's issues and events, and what it took to cover them. Our panel consists of JPR News Director Erik Neumann, Jane Vaughan, Justin Higginbottom, and Roman Battaglia.

Homelessness is handled differently in the various communities of our region. Grants Pass gets its day before the U.S. Supreme Court later this month, while Medford got a favorable ruling from a lower court on a case filed over the city's camping rules.

That's among the issues that hit the airwaves this week, as monitored and reported by the crew at JPR News. They assemble in the studio once again to hash out the week's big stories and the coverage of them, in a new edition of The Debrief.

JPR News Director Erik Neumann, with reporters Roman Battaglia, Jane Vaughan, and Justin Higginbottom.

The Ashland School District cites declining enrollment as part of the reason it has let go of several education assistants and paraprofessionals.

That's just one of many stories reported by JPR News this week, and our staffers gather to discuss the happenings and their coverage in a new edition of The Debrief.

News Director Erik Neumann kicks things off, with JPR reporters Justin Higginbottom, Jane Vaughan, Roman Battaglia, and Kelby McIntosh.

There's a lot of news to cover in a busy week for the JPR newsroom. Our reporting staff talks over the doings of recent days, including news that Oregon’s housing agency will replace instead of rebuild dozens of modular homes in Phoenix meant for wildfire survivors, in a new edition of our podcast The Debrief.

JPR reporters, Jane Vaughan, Roman Battaglia, and Justin Higginbottom, gather for the conversation.

Spring has sprung, and the Bard is back. Those are two items generating activity in the JPR newsroom this week. The start of previews for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival season came on the same evening as the vernal equinox. And correspondent Juliet Grable discusses the repatriation of land to Northern California’s Yurok Tribe.

There's plenty more news keeping the reporting staff busy, and we hear of the week's work in the latest edition of The Debrief. JPR reporter Jane Vaughn huddles with the team to discuss the coverage of the current news.

The JPR News team has details of specific funding for Southern Oregon emerging from the recent legislative session, and the response from the Oregon Secretary of State to a claim that Jackson County is violating elections laws. These news items and more get an airing in the latest edition of our reporters' roundtable, The Debrief.

JPR News Director Erik Neumann joins reporters: Roman Battaglia, Justin Higginbottom, and Jane Vaughan.