PDXS

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PDXS was a biweekly tabloid newspaper in Portland, Oregon from the early 1990s until the early 2000s. Founded by Jim Redden, a reporter formerly with Willamette Week and subsequently with the Portland Tribune, PDXS focused on arts and culture, as well as news coverage (typically exposé journalism and conspiracy theory.)

Redden wrote a serial article entitled "The Larry Hurwitz Story" that appeared in 23 issues, in which he uncovered the mystery surrounding a previously-unsolved 1990 murder. Largely as a result of Redden's investigative work, Hurwitz was arrested in 1998 on tax evasion charges, and subsequently pleaded no contest to murder, receiving a 12 year sentence.[1]

Novelist Katherine Dunn contributed a regular boxing column, which typically featured news about local matches. Following boxer Mike Tyson's controversial match with Evander Holyfield, however, Dunn wrote a piece that bucked conventional opinion, contending that Holyfield provoked Tyson with illegal head butts.[2][3][4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ van Buskirk, Audrey. "The search for the Starry Night killer", Willamette Week, 2005-03-09. Retrieved on 2007-05-13. 
  2. ^ Dunn, Katherine. "Defending Tyson", PDXS, cyberboxingzone.com, 1997-07-09. Retrieved on 2007-04-18. 
  3. ^ Winners and Losers
  4. ^ CJR Voices
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