‘Do you trust me?’: Putting faith in community, each other in a crisis

Erin Tierney, executive editor

This past year I’ve logged a considerable amount of hours actively listening to Noel as he sits to the right of me – be it from across the newsroom or on the move to meetings, interviews and news coverage in the Willamette Valley.

And does he have a lot to say. I mean a lot. 

Always talking about his former colleagues from ESPN. On and on about his newspaper friends in…