October 12, 2023 Inside Scoop

Hello Nugget supporters!

I'm Jess Draper, creative director here at The Nugget. I've been laying out our beloved newspaper for the last 18 years! Over the last year I've been blessed to share the task with my stellar co-worker Leith Easterling (who handled the task before I joined the staff), allowing me some space for special projects like Spirit of Central Oregon (which, by the way, is hitting the streets as you read this).

Going from a blank template to a newspaper filled with the stories we love to read - and those we need to read - undergirded by the foundation of advertisements on each p...