Major Events Covered

Kirsten’s covered countless local and national news events across a myriad of social platforms and websites. Here are a handful of big stories for which she led and executed extensive digital coverage plans. 

• 2020 presidential campaigns 

• COVID-19 pandemic

• Trump impeachment proceedings​

• El Paso, Dayton mass shootings​

• Jeffrey Epstein scandal

• Notre Dame cathedral fire 

• Mueller Report release

• College admissions scandal 

• January, 2019 government shutdown

• Northern California Carr Fire

• Substation Fire in Central Oregon

• Portland ICE facility occupation and protests

• Family separation immigration issues

• Capital Gazette Shooting

• Santa Fe High School shooting

• March Four Our Lives

• Parkland, Florida school shooting

• 2018 State of the Union Address

• Hurricane Harvey, Texas Floods

• Sutherland Springs mass shooting

• Las Vegas massacre

• Eagle Creek Fire in Northwest Oregon

• 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

• Portland MAX train stabbing

• Manchester Arena bombing

• Women's March 2017

• Portland riots following Trump inauguration

• 2017 Inauguration of President Trump

• 2016/17 historic snow storm in Portland 

• 2016 presidential election riots in Portland

• 2016 presidential election

• 2016 presidential campaigns

• Northwest Portland explosion

• Pulse Nightclub shooting

• Bastille Day attack in Nice, France

• Oregon wildlife refuge standoff (Bundys)

• San Bernardino mass shooting

• Umpqua Community College mass shooting