Erik Neumann
News DirectorErik Neumann is JPR's news director. He earned a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and joined JPR as a reporter in 2019 after working at NPR member station KUER in Salt Lake City. Erik grew up alongside the Puget Sound and is passionate about the power of narrative storytelling to explore the issues that impact people's lives. He has a diverse range of experience in public radio 鈥� reporter, host, producer of live events, and teacher of radio production to young people at Youth Radio in Oakland. Reach Erik at: neumanne1@sou.edu
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Stanford's Uncommon Dialogue program is aimed at negotiating agreements between opposing groups on sustainability issues. How can these ideas be applied to dam removal on the Klamath River? -
Ashland, Oregon has not one, but two sister cities. One is in Mexico. And since this summer, there鈥檚 another in Ukraine. The Ashland-Sviatohirsk Aid Project is hosting a benefit concert in Ashland this Sunday. -
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information about a gray wolf that was illegally killed in Southern Oregon. -
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and two environmental nonprofits in Oregon announced on Wednesday they are requesting a rehearing of a plan to expand a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest. -
Here at JPR, we鈥檝e been covering the Klamath dam removal a lot lately. In many ways, this big story about the largest dam removal in U.S. history, comes back to lots of individual stories about home. Who could get their home back because of this project? And whose home could be lost? -
Federal officials have approved expansion of a natural gas pipeline that runs from British Columbia to the Oregon-California border.
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Oregon is suing for more than $27 million in damages from the owners of a private dam near Roseburg after repairs led to a massive fish kill. -
In his Facebook videos from the first days after the fire in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the look on Nicholas Winfrey鈥檚 face was painfully relatable.
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A series of lightning-caused wildfires near the Oregon-California border has resulted in an extended closure of Highway 199. Crews are still assessing when the road between Cave Junction and Crescent City will reopen. -
Planned repair work on Winchester Dam near Roseburg has led to emergency salvage efforts for Pacific lamprey. It鈥檚 just the latest concern from environmentalists who are opposed to the dam on the North Umpqua River.
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Rafting the Upper Klamath River is possible through the summer thanks to releases of water from the J.C. Boyle Dam, which will be removed next year. When guides return to the Upper Klamath in 2025, this stretch of the river will be forever changed. -
The fast-moving Golden Fire, located 11 miles north of Bonanza, in Klamath County, has destroyed 43 residences and 43 outbuildings, according to initial assessments from the Oregon State Fire Marshal.
