Brian Bull
Freelance reporterBrian Bull is a contributing freelance reporter with the KLCC News department, who first began working with the station in 2016. In that time, Bull worked as a general assignment reporter, documentary and podcast producer, and interim news director. He's now senior reporter with the Native American media organization Buffalo's Fire, and recently worked as a journalism professor at the University of Oregon teaching audio storytelling, public affairs reporting, and story development.
In his nearly 30 years working as a public media journalist, Bull has worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His work has been heard on NPR Newscasts and programs, and APM's Marketplace. He's also a substitute host for National Native News, and has had articles published in The Eugene-Register Guard, The Oregonian, Indian Country Today, and Underscore Native News. Several photos of CAHOOTS workers he took were featured in People Magazine in July 2021.
Bull has won dozens of accolades and awards in his career, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (22 regional), the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from the Native American Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.
An enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe, Bull has worked with NPR's Next Generation Project geared towards diversifying the ranks of tomorrow's journalists. He's been a guest faculty instructor at the Poynter Institute on covering underrepresented communities, and also served as chair for Vision Maker Media, which supports authentic programs and documentaries produced by Native Americans.
Bull has a Master's Degree in American Journalism Online from New York University, and a B.A. from Macalester College where he studied Psychology, English, and Dramatic Arts.
He's glad to be home in the Pacific Northwest, close to his family, tribe, and the Oregon Coast. If only someone had warned him about the grass seed pollen every spring! Bull is married and has three children, and five cats. He enjoys photography, hiking, cooking, the visual and performing arts, and the occasional Godzilla movie.
Read how Brian's desire to spur reflection led him to a career in public media.
Check out Bull's latest NextGen project with regional mentees in Oregon, hosted by Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Brian is the director and lead interviewer for the Public Radio Oral History Project, which aims to build a repository of interviews with many of the industry's founders and innovators.
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A monument honoring Eugene’s five founding Black families is being created to be placed in Alton Baker Park this fall. The sculpture was revealed Friday at Reinmuth Foundry with descendants of the families present. -
In the last two weeks, two class action lawsuits against the J.H. Baxter company have been reclassified as civil suits. Both filed in the spring of 2021, they stemmed from noxious odors and dioxins from its now-shuttered Eugene plant. -
Old growth forests with just modest exposure to fire are now most at risk for severe wildfires across the region. That’s according to a new analysis from scientists with Oregon State University and the USDA Forest Service Research & Development. -
Now in its 15th year, the Vegan Chef Challenge is underway for the first time in Oregon, with Eugene eateries participating. -
When it comes to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons cases, search teams have to be ready for the possibility of coming across a corpse. One Oregon MMIP group is proactively helping their volunteers prepare for that encounter. -
More than a thousand people braved below-freezing weather to celebrate civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Monday morning in Eugene. And this year, the annual march saw combined efforts. -
The founder of a Missing and Murdered Indigenous People organization is sharing the faces of those affected by the crisis, with a new exhibition in Salem. -
After 20 years, Lane County officials say they’ll stop using the point-in-time count this year as a tool for gauging homelessness. -
In an interview recorded February 9, 2023 Doug Mitchell discusses growing up with routine exposure to legacy news sources and historic coverage, including Walter Cronkite and the Watergate Hearings, as well as his earliest ventures literally slipping into NPR and taking on production work with various programs. Mitchell also talks about launching the NPR Next Generation Radio Project and the hundreds of people it’s helped find their calling in public media and other areas. -
An ongoing initiative in Oregon is sharing non-traditional Santas, who give kids and their families a holiday figure they can relate to.
