Landon Bartlett
Landon Bartlett brings Oregon State athletics together with a wide lens on Salem-Keizer high school sports, using interactive polls, recognition series and detailed game coverage to show how local programs fit into a broader competitive landscape.
Oregon State football and baseball coverage
Bartlett covers Oregon State football week to week, writing previews that set expectations for upcoming games and explain what is at stake for the Beavers’ season. He follows through with long-form game stories that blend scoring summaries, key individual performances and reaction from coaches and players, as in his coverage of wins over UTEP and Montana. His football work includes service pieces that spell out kickoff times, broadcast details and viewing options, making it easy for readers to follow the team throughout the year.
Beyond football, he tracks Oregon State baseball’s postseason positioning, reporting on decisions such as the program being left out of NCAA regional host sites and what that means in the context of recent seasons. He profiles players connected to the program, including a feature on Teagan Scott’s choice to stick with Oregon State through MLB Draft day, tying individual stories to the program’s long-term trajectory.
Across these assignments, he treats Oregon State as a year-round beat, balancing immediate game results with the longer arc of how the program competes nationally.
Salem-Keizer high school sports and athlete recognition
High school sports are a central part of Bartlett’s work, with regular coverage of football, soccer, basketball, cross-country and volleyball across the Salem-Keizer area. He runs live updates and score roundups for high school football Fridays, tracking local games while also folding in statewide results to give context to how area teams stack up against the rest of Oregon.
His reporting extends beyond numbers, as shown in his feature on Silverton girls soccer, which focuses on the team’s search for identity through early-season challenges and highlights how players and coaches respond to adversity.
He also writes about off-field issues that intersect with high school athletics, including controversy surrounding the North Salem football program and the resulting statewide reaction, treating governance and social questions as part of the sports beat rather than a separate subject. Recognition is a recurring thread in his local coverage; he announces winners of Maps Credit Union’s Athlete of the Week and explains what individual performances earned those honors, such as a South Salem athlete’s standout showing.
The anchor article on Salem-area quarterbacks fits the same pattern, inviting readers to weigh in on which local player will have the biggest impact and framing the debate around recent performances. His work on high school sports consistently pairs results and statistics with narrative detail about how teams and athletes are developing over a season.
Reader polls, live updates and service journalism
Bartlett’s coverage is distinctive for how often it asks readers to participate directly in shaping the local sports conversation.
He runs weekly polls for Maps Credit Union’s girls and boys Athlete of the Week, assembling nominee lists that span multiple sports and providing concise descriptions of each athlete’s recent accomplishments, including goals, kills, and personal-best times. Those pieces set clear voting windows and instructions, turning routine box-score performances into community events where athletes, families and fans see their efforts recognized in print.
He applies the same interactive approach to seasonal awards such as the Moment of the Year, where a Stayton girls basketball state title repeat is presented alongside context on the team’s record and the significance of consecutive championships. Live-update scoreboards and Friday night football blogs keep readers informed in real time, while follow-up roundups consolidate results into a clean picture of the week’s action.
On the college side, his “how to watch” guides for Oregon State football function as practical service pieces, giving readers concrete information on schedules and broadcast platforms and reinforcing his emphasis on accessibility as part of sports reporting. This mix of polls, live updates and guides sets his work apart from a standard game-story beat by making interaction and utility core parts of the coverage.
Experience across sports beats
Bartlett’s current role covering Oregon State athletics and high school sports builds on experience across multiple levels of competition.
He has worked as a sports reporter with the Statesman Journal, focusing on college programs and high school teams within the same geographic footprint. Before joining the masthead, he reported on Ohio State football recruiting for a major regional outlet, giving him familiarity with the mechanics of college recruiting and how high school talent moves into Division I programs.
Earlier internships included assignments covering professional soccer, university football and international golf and tennis, along with work at a local newspaper and a student-run news organization, where he edited and wrote a high volume of sports stories. That background in both reporting and editing shows up in his current work through structured gamer formats, attention to statistical detail and an ability to move comfortably between professional, college and high school contexts.
Taken together, his portfolio reflects a reporter who treats sports as a connected ecosystem, linking local performances to college opportunities and using interactive features to keep readers engaged at every level.
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