Kari Chisholm
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| Alma mater | University of Southern California (BA) |
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| Known for | Founder of BlueOregon |
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Kari Chisholm (born July 2, 1973) is an American political consultant and sports commentator based in Portland, Oregon. He became known for commentary on the Heisman Trophy, and his now-defunct site StiffArmTrophy.com correctly predicted the winner of the trophy every year from 2002 to 2012. He is the co-founder and publisher of BlueOregon, a defunct blog.
Career
Political consultancy and BlueOregon
In 2004, Chisholm, Jeff Alworth, and Jesse Cornett co-founded BlueOregon, a progressive blog that covered the politics of the U.S. state of Oregon.[1] Chisholm was one of the site's three main editors and was described as the "den mother of the political blog" by the Willamette Week.[2][3] Chisholm stated that he and other tech-savvy activists wanted smaller regional political blogs like BlueOregon to play as a prominent a role at the state level as large blogs already did at the national level.[4]
By 2006 the site was the top-read Oregon political blog, with 3,000 to 4,000 readers a day around election season.[4] An article in The Register-Guard stated that "[b]logs such as Chisholm's have been a place where Democratic activists have been able to find out where and how they can help their party's candidates. [...] And where those willing to get up from their computers can go to make phone calls or go door-knocking on behalf of candidates."[4]
By 2008 the site was generating 9,000 page views a day and editors were credentialed for floor access to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.[2][5] By 2010, the site featured more than 30 regular contributors,[6] and Chisholm and other editors were regularly quoted in local political stories by The Oregonian, the state's largest newspaper.[7][8][9]
During this period of growth for BlueOregon, Chisholm served as a political consultant and operated website development company Mandate Media, which provided digital services to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and Gov. Ted Kulongoski, and to the campaigns of then-U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley, then-secretary of state candidate Kate Brown, then-congressional candidate Kurt Schrader, and then-Portland mayoral candidate Sam Adams.[2] In 2008, Jake Weigler, a BlueOregon contributor and campaign manager for Senate candidate Steve Novick, published a post on the site alleging that BlueOregon's coverage of the race was biased towards the Merkley campaign and that Chisholm had a clear conflict of interest.[10][11] "It's pretty transparent that [BlueOregon] is being used as window dressing and as a mouthpiece for the Merkley campaign," Weigler told The Oregonian.[10]
Other campaigns expressed similar complaints about coverage, and reporting in the Willamette Week detailed "ample evidence" that BlueOregon has "posted pieces that portray Chisholm's paying clients favorably."[2] "I'm not a journalist and don't pretend to be," Chisholm later told the paper, "but I work hard to get all voices out there."[12]
Between 2006 and 2011, Chisholm was paid nearly $400,000 by state and local Democratic candidates.[12]
Chisholm last posted on BlueOregon in 2020, and the site has not been updated since.[13]
In 2023 Chisholm was selected to serve on a committee to draft the district lines which would form the geographic basis of Portland's new form of government.[14]
Personal life
He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and their son.[15][16]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Davis, Matt (December 18, 2009). "Jesse Cornett Files For Saltzman's Seat". Portland Mercury. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jaquiss, Nigel (April 22, 2008). "Blue Flames". Willamette Week. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Contributors". BlueOregon. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Steves, David (November 5, 2006). "Bloggers find new clout in state politics". Eugene Register-Guard. Retrieved February 25, 2023 – via The Free Library.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Blueoregon admin (August 22, 2008). "BlueOregon: Headed to Denver". BlueOregon. Retrieved December 21, 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Contributors". BlueOregon. Archived from the original on 2010-04-18. Retrieved February 25, 2023 – via WayBack Machine.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Attig, Rick (October 28, 2008). "Salmon and dams, open primaries and voters". The Oregonian. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mapes, Jeff (December 17, 2009). "Schrader a "Blue Dog," but is he really part of the pack?". The Oregonian. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lane, Dee (September 22, 2006). "Minnis Cartoon Disappears". The Oregonian. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mapes, Jeff (March 11, 2008). "Blue Oregon a little black-and-blue today". The Oregonian. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Refusing to play a rigged game". BlueOregon. March 11, 2008. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jaquiss, Nigel (October 11, 2011). "Sins of Omission". Willamette Week. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sign the petition: We need vote by mail for all". BlueOregon. April 26, 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Zielinski, Alex. "Portland creates group to draw district lines for new form of government". opb.org. Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Our team". Mandate Media. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mayer, Rebecca (January 22, 2009). "Obama ushers in new era". Lake Oswego Review. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
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