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Oral history interview with Bobbie Doré Foster [Sound Recording 03]
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- 2017-09-26 (Creation)
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WAVE (Format); 00:57:25
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Bobbie Doré Foster was born in Abbeville, Louisiana, in 1938. In 1965, she moved to Astoria, Oregon, where she attended Clatsop Community College. She then lived in Seattle, Washington, where she and Bernie Foster were married. The couple settled in Portland, Oregon, and in 1975, they founded The Skanner newspaper, which later added an office in Seattle. In 1989, Foster completed her education in journalism at Portland State University. She serves as The Skanner's executive editor. In 2013, she and Bernie Foster received the Oregon Historical Society's History Makers award.
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Session 3. This oral history interview with Bobbie Doré Foster was conducted by Jan Dilg in the office of The Skanner Newsgroup from August 29 to September 26, 2017. Bobbie Dore Foster was nominated by Oregonians to be interviewed as part of a program by the Oregon Historical Society Research Library to enhance and expand the range of voices in the library's collections. Interviewees are selected from the pool of nominees by a staff committee appointed by the historical society's executive director. The interview was conducted in three sessions. In the third and final interview session, conducted on September 26, 2017, Foster discusses awards she received, and also revisits the topic of studying journalism at Portland State University. She then talks about the many awards The Skanner received. She also discusses the donation of The Skanner photograph archive to the Oregon Historical Society. She talks about the challenges of running a newspaper, where The Skanner has been most successful, and how the paper has changed over the decades. She closes the interview by discussing the importance of role models for black children.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
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- eng
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- African Americans--Oregon--Portland
- African American women journalists--Oregon--Portland
- African American newspapers--Oregon--Portland
- Journalists--Oregon--Portland
- Women journalists--Oregon--Portland
- Newspapers--Oregon--Portland
- The Skanner Newsgroup
- The Skanner Foundation (Portland, Or.)
- Foster, Bernie (Bernard), 1940-
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- Dilg, Janice (Janice Lynn) (Contributor)