Brent is an associate professor at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, a UO alum, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist. Brent has worked as a staff writer and the managing editor for Willamette Week, as Oregon State Capitol correspondent for the Eugene Register-Guard, and as a Washington, DC correspondent and senior investigative reporter for The Oregonian. He is also the author of Fire at Eden’s Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story, a portrait of the state’s most influential governor. He holds a master of fine arts degree from Warren Wilson College.
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