Welcome to Lookout Eugene-Springfield!
Here we keep you updated on Lookout Local’s soon-to-launch second site
We’re glad you’re here.
Lookout Eugene-Springfield, our second site, will announce a launch date soon. We appreciate the statewide and national coverage of our initiative. Please bookmark or note this page, which we keep updated with our news.
And don’t forget to sign up for our new Lookout Eugene-Springfield newsletter below.
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How You Can Support the Launch of Lookout Eugene-Springfield
Join Your Friends and Neighbors!
We thank those you have stepped quickly forward:
- Dave & Ann Fidanque
- Joan Gray & Harris Hoffman
- Hugh & Sue Prichard
- Eric Forrest
- Dan and Peggy Neal
- Ann Baker Mack and Donovan Mack
- Vern Katz & Deb Dotters
- Tim Gleason & Jenny Ulum
- Kitty & David Piercy
- Tom & Patti Barkin
- David & Marcia Hilton
- Patricia Krier and Tom Connolly
- The Yarg Foundation
- The Chambers Family Foundation
- The Tykeson Family Foundation
Our goal is $4 million in committed capital from both national and local sources. A generous $1 million matching grant gift from the Eugene-based Tykeson Family Foundation jumpstarted our efforts, driving local commitments of $710,000 in several months. Our next funding goal is to raise $290,000 to fully meet the Tykeson Challenge.
The Lenfest Institute, owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, acts as Lookout’s fiscal sponsor. At this point, donors to Lookout can make tax-deductible donations of $5000 or more to the Lenfest Institute, specifying support for Lookout, by contacting Charles Jun at Lenfest: charles@lenfestinstitute.org.
We will announce a program for smaller dollar amounts soon.
Questions about support. Contact us at eugene-springfield@lookoutlocal.com
FAQS: Lookout Eugene-Springfield
What is Lookout? How can I support the Lookout Eugene-Springfield launch? When will Lookout Eugene-Springfield launch?
Get to know the basic, funding structure, timing, and more in our FAQ.
Now Hiring!
The positions for which Lookout Eugene-Springfield is now recruiting:
Publisher: Heads the business and community partnerships and relationships that are core to Lookout’s mission and success. A demonstrated leader with P & L experience able to help form a new team of trustworthy talented professionals building a new model of local journalism. Driven equally by both mission and business success, and understanding how the two must buttress each other to successfully revive local journalism in Eugene-Springfield, and nationally.
Community & Student Engagement Manager: Leads our many “Show Up” efforts among a widening of community connections. Forms win-win partnerships and relationships, advancing both Lookout and the goals of community organizations and local business. Leads Lookout events program, Lookout in the Community and drives our successful-in-Santa Cruz Lookout in the Classroom student and teacher engagement programs. Demonstrated excellence, best in Eugene-Springfield, at forming and optimizing community partnership.
Correspondent: Ready and able to offer readers the kind of timely, useful and connect-the-dots reporting that distinguishes the Lookout model. We’re putting a skilled and experienced set of journalists who can work deep into beats and collaborate with colleagues on breaking and in-depth pieces. Skilled at narrative storytelling that gives readers an ongoing fair, accurate and non-partisan sense of the news that matters most to them, working at the cadence of digital and enthusiastic about responsible use of newer technologies.
Executive Editor: Shapes the reader-centric multiple news and information products we offer, leading a newsroom of skilled, experienced journalists excelling at the speed of digital publishing. A demonstrated leader of people and in creating an excellence-demanding, collaborative culture. Adept with the digital tools of the day, and those coming. A key partner of the publisher and business side in forming a single team to meet the needs of readers and the communities served.
Advertising Sales Manager: Heads sales success by implementing and expanding our successful Marketing Partners programs. Develops and manages an extensive pipeline of qualified Marketing Partner clients, built on meaningful, revenue-growing relationships with businesses, associations and other community organizations. Brings proven track record of sales success, best leveraging existing local connections and demonstrated abilities to satisfy customer needs.
Interested in applying?
Send your resume and cover letter to jobs@lookoutlocal.com
Get to know our coverage
Lookout in the Classroom
We are now making plans to bring our successful, educator-endorsed Lookout in the Classroom to Lane County. Here’s what the program looks like in Santa Cruz.
Browse our Lookout Santa Cruz newsletters
At Lookout Santa Cruz, our correspondents dedicate each day to chronicling the rich, complex and vibrant culture of Santa Cruz County. Lookout Eugene-Springfield will offer its own wide-ranging set of newsletters.
- Morning Lookout: Our most popular newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Get the top headlines, events and features, and all the things that Santa Cruzans need to know for their day.
- In the Public Interest: Christopher Neely brings you the latest updates from the world of Santa Cruz County governments. Dig into the people, politics and policies reshaping our community, with stories focused on the issues that matter most to you. Sent every Monday.
- Lily Belli on Food: Join Lily as she explores Santa Cruz County’s unique food scene with news, tips, tricks, recipes, updates, and more. Sent every Tuesday.
- Weekender: Wallace Baine’s newsletter has a list of all the very best concerts, plays, art tours, family-friendly events and other happenings around Santa Cruz County. Sent every Thursday.
- Eaters Digest: Food & drink correspondent Lily Belli shares suggestions on great local bites and brews, plus the best of the week’s food news and events. Sent every Friday.
- Sunday Reads: A check-in on the best stories of the week plus a column from Wallace Baine and any new coverage coming in on the weekend.
- Lookout PM: Your weekday evening recap of the stories reported and produced by Lookout correspondents, plus state and national stories that have an impact on Santa Cruz.
Flip through the archive of our seven newsletters via the button below.
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