Author Archives: Paul Suarez
Sometimes there are no words
I found myself shooting a photo of a woman with a ton of cash and a cartoon dog on Tuesday. No really. The photo went with a business story about credit unions rewarding people who put money into savings accounts. Karen Salado, the woman in the blue shirt, was a local winner who was collecting […]
Unnecessary slow motion
You might wonder what a videographer does to keep his sanity while shooting a video of people walking on a trail. Well in the case of last Monday, it happened to be switching my camera to shoot 60 frames per second instead of 24 so I could recut a slow motion video for no reason. […]
Viral GIF: Reporter vs. snow plow
This one was too good not to share. Steve Keeley, a reporter from FOX 29 News Philadelphia, got a bit of a surprise when he was hit by snow from a passing snow plow on Monday morning in New Jersey, according to Philly.com. Don’t worry folks, he’s just fine. Thanks for all well wishes it […]
Bye bye, Mr. Editor Guy
Columbian Assistant Metro Editor Dave Kern retired on Thursday after spending 33 years at the paper and about 40 years in the news business. As you might remember from our farewell to John Branton post, Dave would send off longtime employees with a parody song. That meant someone else would need to step up […]
Laying out the future of web design for news
By now you’ve probably had a chance to see Erik Hidle’s Sunday story on Steve Stuart and what it would mean if he decides to run for re-election in 2014. We decided to use that story to experiment with a new web tool that allows us to take more liberties with the layout of a […]
Speaking of drones…
I’m a bit skeptical about Jeff Bezos’ plans to deliver Amazon packages via drone. And no, it has nothing to do with his 30-minute delivery, problems with FAA regulations or just common sense doubts. I’m speaking from experience. That’s right, we’ve got a drone. Web Editor John Hill, a few folks from IT and I […]
Dealing with crime on a neighborhood level
By now you’ve probably seen our story (and video) on Vancouver police responding to an alleged drug home in the Hough neighborhood. On Thursday a reporter, photographer and I were able to tag along while VPD’s Neighborhood Response Team served a search warrant at a house at 321 W. Fourth Plain Blvd. The rental had been the […]
Farewell to John Branton
On Monday we got word that longtime Columbian police reporter John Branton died over the weekend. He was 66. John retired after 27 years at the paper in May 2012. Before he left, he became a member of a select club of Columbian staffers. You know you’ve made it when Assistant Metro Editor Dave Kern […]
We’re virtually the worst drivers out there
What happens when you run a reporter through police training? Unscientific data shows they’ll fail the exam two out of three times — or at least that’s what happened earlier this week at Washington State Patrol headquarters in Vancouver. On Tuesday, breaking news reporter Emily Gillespie, photographer Steve Lane and I stopped by WSP to […]
River bests John Branton (and Skyview)
A few weeks back I wrote about my attempt to unseat the top video on our YouTube channel. Unfortunately, my WSP ridealong video has only gotten about 1,000 views at this point — about 149,000 views shy of the record-setting video produced by John Branton. Luckily for me, it looks like another video I had a bit […]