Twenty-Five Years of News (As Well As Entertainment and Trouble)

Twenty-Five Years of News (As Well As Entertainment and Trouble)

How the Portland Mercury found its niche by blending irreverent commentary with sobering investigative reporting. by Courtney Vaughn [Find the Mercury's 25th Anniversary Issue (in print) near you by using this handy-dandy map, and read all of our anniversary stories here.—eds.] It was the best of times. It was the weirdest of times. Like nearly every Portland Mercury news editor before and after him, Denis Theriault’s memories of working at the …