Courtney Sherwood
As managing editor of digital content, Courtney Sherwood oversees journalism across OPB’s online platforms and works closely with non-content groups across OPB on strategic and tactical efforts to increase and broaden audience reach and engagement in the digital realm.
She began contributing to OPB special projects, filling in as a radio editor, and contributing to the digital team starting in 2012.
Courtney spent a number of years specializing in data journalism, with a focus on business, banking and health care reporting. Her byline has appeared on the front page of the New York Times, as well as on stories for Reuters, Vice, Science magazine, the Seattle Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Portland Business Journal. She previously served as the business and features editor for The Columbian and editor-in-chief for The Lund Report.
She is a past recipient of a Wharton Business Journalists Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Grinnell College.
Latest Stories
Northwest temperatures begin to climb after days of extreme cold
Oregonians woke to ice-coated cars and streets Saturday morning, and a promise of improving conditions as temperatures began to climb after days of abnormal cold.
Extreme Northwest weather blows in, posing threat to lives, traffic, powerlines
Forecasters say Portland could see the coldest temperatures in many years and Eastern and Central Oregon could experience wind chills of 25 degrees below zero. Major utilities Thursday morning reported thousands of homes and businesses without power, mostly in the Portland area.
Climate change is already displacing people in Oregon. A UN report warns of more to come
Thousands of Oregonians have already been displaced by climate change, which is reshaping landscapes and livelihoods around the globe, according to an Oregon State University associate professor who joined almost 300 researchers to create an assessment released this week by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
From homes in the Northwest, Ukrainian-Americans watch Russia’s invasion with anger and anxiety
For Pacific Northwest residents with ties to Ukraine, this week’s headlines have been more than alarming. Russia’s full-scale attack of previously unoccupied Ukrainian territory by air, land and sea is an attack on their ancestral homeland and, for many people, a threat to friends and family members as well.
More snow, snarled roads forecast for Northwest into Tuesday morning
More snow is heading to the Pacific Northwest, prompting winter weather advisories from the National Weather Service, and putting road crews on high alert in mountain ranges, the Willamette Valley and along the Oregon coast.
Cold front brings high winds, snow and a risk of sneaker waves to Oregon
Winter weather has arrived in Oregon, bringing heavy winds and rain to low-lying areas, snow to mountain passes and power outages across a swath of the northwestern quadrant of the state. And there could be more wet and cold to come in the days ahead.
Portland police name officer who killed alleged car jacker on Interstate 5
Officers are investigating the aftermath of a series of armed car jackings in which police killed a person.
Oregon set to resume licensing cannabis processors
The legislative pause expires on Jan. 2. Meanwhile, the OLCC has reworked how it handles applications to sell or process cannabis, agency spokesman Mark Pettinger told OPB’s Think Out Loud on Monday.
Northern Lights could add spooky flare to Halloween weekend skies
A storm that started more than 92 million miles away is sending a spooky light snow to skies above the Pacific Northwest — and across the northern third of the rest of the United States, too.
Oregon to require masks outdoors in crowded public places
Starting Friday, masks will be required in most public outdoor settings where physical distancing is not possible, regardless of vaccination status.