Have you noticed the new names appearing across the Woodburn Independent? It’s no coincidence.
Reporters at our partner newspapers across Washington, Columbia and Yamhill counties have been working hard to cover Woodburn and the surrounding communities, on top of their typical beats in the past few weeks as we’ve looked to fill some key positions at the Independent.
Now, the Woodburn Independent is proud to introduce Sophia Cossette as the new full-time reporter for the paper.
Cossette will serve as a general assignment reporter, covering everything from city hall to local events, personalities and more. She replaces outgoing reporter Justin Much.
Cossette joins the Woodburn Independent after graduating from the University of Oregon in September with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
In college, she was a Charles Snowden intern with the Forest Grove and Hillsboro News-Times. She also was an investigative reporting intern at Eugene Weekly through the Catalyst Journalism Project and was the opinion editor at the University of Oregon’s independent student newspaper, The Daily Emerald.