Debra Moore, who kickstarted the Sunday supplement Tehama Today for the Record Searchlight back in 2007 and was my boss when I inherited the Red Bluff bureau office later that year, is back in the field she loves -- community journalism in a small town.
Debra is holding down the Plumas County News' fort in Portola, reporting on school boards and other happenings. Long after she gave up the Tehama Today office and took a promotion in the Searchlight's main newsroom and later became a freelance journalist, Debra spoke longingly of her days meeting with friends and mingling in shops in Red Bluff's rustic downtown. Now she's in Portola's rustic downtown, meeting new friends and finding new shops. Further, she's back with a company she spent well over a decade with before she was lured to the north valley.
I've always felt that amid all the uncertainty surrounding newspapers, the ones that celebrate their readers (rather than trying to convert them to a cause) and cover their communities like a glove are the ones that will survive. The Plumas County News (and the Capital Press) understands this, and so does Debra. It's good to see her back where she belongs.
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