4.6 • 10.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
When the beloved community newspaper Eugene Weekly suddenly stopped publishing, staff discovered a longtime employee had quietly drained the paper’s finances for years.
“Eugene Weekly: Black, White, and In The Red” unravels the story of betrayal, denial, and the fight to revive a local institution nearly lost to criminal opportunity.
Thank you to our sponsors:
Simplisafe: Get 50% off your new SimpliSafe system with professional monitoring and your first month free at simplisafe.com/opportunist
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Did you know that if you're taking a probiotic, chances are you're being lied to? |
| 0:04.0 | A shocking study revealed that 15 out of 16 leading brands don't contain the strains they |
| 0:10.0 | promise on the label. |
| 0:11.5 | Hi, I'm Tina, co-founder of Just Thrive Probiotic. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm proud to say that Just Thrive Probiotic is third-party tested and the only retail |
| 0:20.0 | probiotic guaranteed to arrive 100% alive in your |
| 0:23.2 | gut. Why does that matter? Because unlike most probiotics that die in your stomach, Just Thrive |
| 0:28.8 | probiotic is clinically proven to stop bloat and indigestion, support strong immunity, give you clear |
| 0:35.2 | glowing skin, and even improve your sleep. We also have a special |
| 0:38.9 | probiotic formula for your pets. So don't gamble with your family's health. Choose to Just Thrive. Visit |
| 0:44.9 | Justthrivehealth.com slash podcast and use code Pod 20 for 20% off your order. That's justthrivehealth.com |
| 0:53.4 | slash podcast code pod 20. |
| 1:01.0 | On December 10th, 2023, Camilla Mortensen, editor-in-chief of Eugene Weekly, was technically on vacation. |
| 1:14.4 | She was visiting her parents in Florida, but even off the clock, she couldn't fully unplug. She was still checking in on the scrappy Oregon paper she'd called |
| 1:20.8 | home since 2007, stealing moments to make sure everything was running smoothly. That was the kind of tenacity that animated the Eugene Weekly. |
| 1:31.3 | It was a labor of love, more than just a job for its employees. |
| 1:36.3 | Well, at least for most of them. |
| 1:40.3 | While Camilla was out of town, Alicia Young, the paper's bookkeeper, was looking after her dog who suffered from epilepsy. |
| 1:49.0 | That's just how things worked at the weekly. They were a tight-knit crew. |
| 1:55.0 | People kept asking, like, well, didn't you do any background check? |
| 1:59.0 | Nobody's a criminal until they actually commit a crime. |
| 2:04.6 | When Camilla got word that Alicia was in the hospital, having health issues of her own, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from PodcastOne, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of PodcastOne and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.