Occupation Journalist Name Gordon Friedman Website www.grfriedman.com | Title Reporter Organization Statesman Journal Education University of Oregon | |
Born 18 February 1993 Los Angeles, CA | ||
B-roll: Oregonian/OregonLive reporter Gordon Friedman interviews Secretary of State Dennis Richards
Gordon R. Friedman (born 18 February 1993) is a state politics reporter for The Oregonian and author of the weekly Capitol Confidential newsletter. Previously he was a reporter at the Statesman Journal.
Friedman was born in Los Angeles, California. He moved to Bellingham, Washington in 2006, and later graduated from Bellingham High School. He then attended the University of Oregon where he majored in journalism and served as editor-in-chief of Ethos, the campus magazine. While editor, he led the publication to win an Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award, often considered the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism. Friedman also worked at The Daily Emerald as a reporter covering the University of Oregon campus and arts and culture.
After graduating college in 2015, Friedman interned with the Statesman Journal, in Salem. He then earned a permanent job at the newspaper covering Oregon's state government and its civil employees. In 2016, his coverage of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff for USA Today and an investigation into officer misconduct in Oregon prisons earned him the Rookie of the Year Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon Territory Chapter. In December 2016 he was hired by The Oregonian as a state capitol bureau reporter.
Friedman lives in Portland, Oregon.