Zack Demars | Journalist

Zack Demars is a journalist in the Pacific Northwest. 

As a special projects reporter for The Bulletin, Central Oregon's daily newspaper, he covered housing, homelessness, child care, climate resilience and more with in-depth reporting and community engagement events.

Prior to working in Bend, Demars reported from Coos Bay, Brookings and Eugene, Oregon, and Crescent City, California. His work with the Catalyst Journalism Project on homelessness in Eugene appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others.

He was also the lead author of Classroom 15, a collaborative book about international friendships, government censorship, the Cold War and a failed pen pal project by Southern Oregon fourth graders. Classroom 15 was published by Anthem Press in Dec. 2020. Read more: New York Times — Times Insider: How a Fourth Grader in 1960 Inspired College Students in 2019.

Here are a few of Demars' top stories: