NEWSROOM RULES: STAY SAFE. GET THE STORY.

When the college basketball team traveled to Boise for a Thanksgiving tournament, the sports editor thought she did everything right: social distancing, testing before the trip, masks, no parties.

But no one told her, or the team, or the alumni aboard the trip the truth: a coach came down with COVID and had to be left behind on a ventilator in Boise.
The COVID numbers are rising in Portland. At the university.

And now it's in the newsroom.

The new editors at Eyewitness News in Portland have a lot going on: run one of the largest newsrooms in the city, all done by college students. Cover the nightly Black Lives Matter protests downtown. Start a new personal relationship. But all of that takes a back seat when the pandemic comes home.

The university and the city need the information EWN can provide. If they can keep enough people healthy to get the job done.

Stay safe. Get the story. Sometimes you can't do both.

This is book 3 in the new-adult political suspense series, Newsroom PDX.

Some sex, a bit kinky. Bad language. Lots of politics. Heartbreak. It's Portland.