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An Oregon weekly newspaper has had to lay off its entire staff and halt print after 40 years because its funds were embezzled by a former employee, its editor said, in a devastating blow to a publication that serves as an important source of information in a community that, like many others nationwide, is struggling with growing gaps in local news coverage.<\/p>\n

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About a week before Christmas, the Eugene Weekly found inaccuracies in its bookkeeping, editor Camilla Mortensen said. It discovered that a former employee who was \u201cheavily involved\u201d with the paper\u2019s finances had used its bank account to pay themselves $90,000 since at least 2022, she said.<\/p>\n

The paper also became aware of at least $100,000 in unpaid bills \u2014 including to the paper\u2019s printer \u2014 stretching back several months, she said.<\/p>\n

Additionally, multiple employees, including Mortensen, realized that money from their paychecks that was supposed to be going into retirement accounts was never deposited.<\/p>\n

When the paper realized it couldn\u2019t make the next payroll, it was forced to lay off all of its 10 staff members and stop its print edition, Mortensen said. The alternative weekly, founded in 1982, printed 30,000 copies each week to distribute for free in Eugene, the third-largest city in the state and home to the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo lay off a whole family\u2019s income three days before Christmas is the absolute worst,\u201d Mortensen said, expressing her sense of devastation. \u201cIt was not on my radar that anything like this could have happened or was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspected employee had worked for the paper for about four years and has since been fired, Mortensen said.<\/p>\n

The Eugene police department\u2019s financial crimes unit is investigating, and the paper\u2019s owners have hired forensic accountants to piece together what happened, she said.<\/p>\n

Brent Walth, a journalism professor at the University of Oregon, said he was concerned about the loss of a paper that has had \u201can outsized impact in filling the widening gaps in news coverage\u201d in Eugene. He described the paper as an independent watchdog and a compassionate voice for the community, citing its obituaries of homeless people as an example of how the paper has helped put a human face on some of the city\u2019s biggest issues.<\/p>\n

He also noted how the paper has made \u201can enormous difference\u201d for journalism students seeking internships or launching their career. He said there were feature and investigative stories that \u201cthe community would not have had if not for the weekly\u2019s commitment to make sure that journalism students have a place to publish in a professional outlet.\u201d<\/p>\n

A tidal wave of closures of local news outlets across the country in recent decades has left many Americans without access to vital information about their local governments and communities and has contributed to increasing polarization, said Tim Gleason, the former dean of the University of Oregon\u2019s journalism school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe loss of local news across the country is profound,\u201d he said. \u201cInstead of having the healthy kind of community connections that local journalism helps create, we\u2019re losing that and becoming communities of strangers. And the result of that is that we fall into these partisan camps.\u201d<\/p>\n

An average of 2.5 newspapers closed per week in the U.S. in 2023,\u00a0according to researchers at Northwestern University<\/a>. Over 200 counties have no local news outlet at all, they found, and more than half of all U.S. counties have either no local news source or only one remaining outlet, typically a weekly newspaper.<\/p>\n

Despite being officially unemployed, Eugene Weekly staff have continued to work without pay to help update the website and figure out next steps, said Todd Cooper, the paper\u2019s art director. He described his colleagues as dedicated, creative, hardworking people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis paper is definitely an integral part of the community, and we really want to bring it back and bounce back bigger and better if we can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The paper has launched a fundraising effort that included the creation of a GoFundMe<\/a> page. As of Friday afternoon \u2014 just one day after the paper announced its financial troubles \u2014 the GoFundMe had raised more than $11,000.<\/p>\n

Now that the former employee suspected of embezzlement has been fired, \u201cwe have a lot of hope that this paper is going to come back and be self-sustaining and go forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHell, it\u2019ll hopefully last another 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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