NewsOregon uses AI openly. The publisher is responsible for the content published here.
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How AI is used here
ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude helped create NewsOregon. AI assists with research, source organization, writing and site development. Original linked headlines retain their publishers’ wording. News collection now runs in ChatGPT Work’s cloud; no personal computer or open desktop app is needed.
How the news monitor works
A single ChatGPT Work schedule requests a cloud collection on the schedule below. NewsOregon’s checking scripts run in GitHub Actions and read a fixed list of Portland and Oregon news publishers and official school and election pages. It looks for recent articles on four topics: Portland Public Schools; Portland City Council Districts 3 and 4 and City Auditor; Multnomah County and Metro offices; and Oregon’s races for governor, labor commissioner and U.S. Senate.
It keeps news reporting that names those schools, offices or races. It leaves out opinion pieces, editorials, a newsroom’s own endorsements, sponsored content, ballot measures and legislative races. It copies each publisher’s headline, author, date and link exactly, writes no summaries and never rewrites a headline.
Before anything appears here, the site’s own code re-checks every link against the same rules. Collections publish automatically once those checks pass; no one reviews each run by hand. The publisher can also start a refresh by hand, which runs the same checking scripts and rules. The scripts collect headlines and attribution metadata without asking an AI model to rewrite or summarize them. When a publisher can’t be read, the page says so. The news feeds are in beta: coverage depends on what publishers make available, and some stories will be missed.
- Runs in
- ChatGPT Work schedule; GitHub Actions collection
- Requested model
- GPT-6 Astra
- Requested reasoning effort
- Medium
- Schedule
- Checks hourly around the clock through November 8, 2026, Portland time. This schedule ends on that date.
- Coverage
- Portland Public Schools; Portland city elections; Multnomah County and Metro elections; Oregon statewide offices.
These are the task’s requested settings. Its run records do not independently confirm which model and effort executed each check.
Feed pages show the last collection time in Portland time. Changes to official reference pages are labeled unverified notices, not confirmed news.
The home page shows up to two headlines within each existing section tab, with links to the full topic feeds. A combined reporting feed is also available. Publisher section pages supplement RSS; public article metadata can supply a missing original date or author. Some publishers require a subscription, and access can change after a story is collected.
Which news outlets we scan
The monitor attempts to check these 21 news outlets on the schedule above. Outlets are listed alphabetically, once each even when we check more than one of their feeds. This list follows the monitor’s current source configuration.
- Axios Portland External · axios.com (opens in a new tab)
- FOX 12 Oregon / KPTV–KPDX External · kptv.com (opens in a new tab)
- KATU External · katu.com (opens in a new tab)
- KGW External · kgw.com (opens in a new tab)
- KOIN 6 External · koin.com (opens in a new tab)
- KXL External · kxl.com (opens in a new tab)
- Montavilla News External · montavilla.net (opens in a new tab)
- Northwest Examiner External · nwexaminer.com (opens in a new tab)
- Oregon Capital Chronicle / States Newsroom External · oregoncapitalchronicle.com (opens in a new tab)
- Oregon Journalism Project External · oregonjournalismproject.org (opens in a new tab)
- Oregon Public Broadcasting External · opb.org (opens in a new tab)
- Portland Mercury External · portlandmercury.com (opens in a new tab)
- Portland Observer External · portlandobserver.com (opens in a new tab)
- Portland Tribune External · portlandtribune.com (opens in a new tab)
- Street Roots External · streetroots.org (opens in a new tab)
- The Bee External · thebeenews.com (opens in a new tab)
- The Cardinal Times External · cardinaltimes.org (opens in a new tab)
- The Franklin Post External · fhspost.com (opens in a new tab)
- The Lund Report External · thelundreport.org (opens in a new tab)
- The Oregonian / OregonLive External · oregonlive.com (opens in a new tab)
- Willamette Week External · wweek.com (opens in a new tab)
We read configured feeds and selected publisher indexes or news sitemaps, not every page on each website. A successful check does not mean we found every relevant story. The news feeds show the last collection time and any source failures.
We retain matching reporting for 21 days with original headlines, dates, author credits and source links. Opinion, editorials, publishers’ own endorsements and sponsored material are excluded. Inclusion is not endorsement.
Official sources we also check (7)
- City of Portland 2026 candidate register External · portland.gov (opens in a new tab)
- City of Portland Auditor's Office / City Elections Division External · portland.gov (opens in a new tab)
- Metro election information External · oregonmetro.gov (opens in a new tab)
- November 3, 2026 General Election External · multco.us (opens in a new tab)
- Oregon candidate filing sources External · sos.oregon.gov (opens in a new tab)
- Oregon upcoming elections External · sos.oregon.gov (opens in a new tab)
- PPS rightsizing hub External · pps.net (opens in a new tab)
Other AI use
ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude helped create this site. ChatGPT also assisted with editorial research. Model and effort settings for every historical contribution were not recorded. Banner artwork is AI-assisted; provenance appears in Artwork credits.
Check the original
AI can make mistakes or miss context. Follow the source links for the original reporting, official documents and current information. News coverage links remain credited to their original publishers.
What comes next
NewsOregon is an experiment, and the site’s purpose may change after the midterm elections on . If you have suggestions for NewsOregon’s future, please let us know.
Corrections and accountability
Automated briefings, resource assessments, linked reporting and opinion are different types of content and are labeled accordingly. Resource lists are curated, not ranked; viewpoint labels are editorial assessments, not accuracy scores. Read how to use the directories. If something is wrong, use the feedback form to request a correction.