The Debrief

All that work to bring California condors back to the wild, and now they're threatened by bird flu. The recent release of the big birds in Yurok country forces some regional attention to the issue.

That's just one item on the agenda for our regular JPR reporter discussion, The Debrief. News Director Erik Neumann sits down with reporters Roman Battaglia and Jane Vaughan to talk about the work behind the scenes to get the stories on the air.

Just a week before the planned season opening, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival dropped a huge bit of news: the season and the festival itself were in financial trouble, and needed an infusion of cash to keep going.

The emergency fundraising campaign tops the list of stories we covered at JPR News this week. We run down the list in another installment of The Debrief, our reporters' roundtable. JPR News Director Erik Neumann sits down with reporters Roman Battaglia and Jane Vaughan to discuss the big news and its coverage.

We started talking about elections on the news this week. Actually, we never really stop, do we? But local elections are approaching in some of our communities, and Shasta County currently has no way to run elections.

That's just one of the issues covered by JPR News this week, and we unpack that and the rest in this week's edition of The Debrief.

News Director Erik Neumann chats with reporters Jane Vaughan and Roman Battaglia about the week's happenings.

We could spend an entire session of The Debrief just talking about Shasta County elections. The county supervisors spent most of a day and an evening on the issue, and that was just this week's meeting.

That's among the issues up for discussion. News Director Erik Neumann huddles with reporters Jane Vaughan and Roman Battaglia to air some perspectives on the stories making news in JPR country this week.

If he clears a background check, Shasta County will hire a new county CEO who wants to break California into pieces.

That's just one of the stories making news this week, a week in which the weather alone provided plenty of news. In addition, cannabis prices crashed, and crews began planting seeds along the Klamath River, where the dams are slated to be demolished.

News Director Erik Neumann discusses these stories with JPR reporters Roman Battaglia and Jane Vaughan in the latest edition of The Debrief, joined by guest David Benda of Redding's Record-Searchlight.

Snow has made a fair amount of news in the region of late, but weather aside, there's been plenty to cover. Stories include Shasta County elections, and a move by county supervisors--who already ditched Dominion Voting Systems--to require all votes to be hand-counted.

That's just one of the issues in this week's edition of The Debrief, our end-of-the-week look back at the news.

News Director Erik Neumann and reporters Roman Battaglia and Jane Vaughan discuss the hot issues of the moment.

Ashland City Council is in the middle of a process to replace the mayor and another of the council members after their resignations, while a Redding-area school board (Gateway) also deals with an abrupt resignation. The personnel changes are among the stories getting airtime on JPR this week.

News Director Erik Neumann and reporters Roman Battaglia and Jane Vaughan reassemble for another session of The Debrief.

You'll hear the inside stories of the preparation of these and other stories for air on JPR.