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Matthew Kish

@matthewkish.bsky.social
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Oregonian business reporter, mostly covering sportswear companies. Formers: Business Insider, Knight-Bagehot, Portland Business Journal. Get in touch: mkish@oregonian.com or 503-221-4386.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 24/09/2026
Home Forward's Hollywood East houses vulnerable seniors amid violence, drug activity, pest infestations and frequent deaths. mrf.lu/2mxp0
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nike co-founder Phil Knight and wife Penny are giving $1 billion to the University of Oregon to launch an engineering school. From @oregonian.com colleauge @rogoway.bsky.social: www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...
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UO lands $1B donation to create Knight College of Engineering
Nike's co-founder rejected national cynicism about the value of university research and said his contribution reflects his dedication to higher education.
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A federal jury on Wednesday awarded a former Nike employee $19,730.52 in economic damages and at least $7.5 million in punitive damages after it found Nike discriminated against her by paying her less than her male peers and promoting her more slowly. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
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Jury orders Nike to pay at least $7.5 million in punitive damages in sex discrimination case
An eight-person jury on Tuesday ruled in Heather Hender’s favor after an acrimonious six-day trial.
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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Big news from @matthewkish.bsky.social
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Jury awards plaintiff at least $7.5 million in punitive damages in sex discrimination lawsuit against Nike
An eight-person jury on Tuesday ruled in Heather Hender’s favor after an acrimonious six-day trial.
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Nike on Thursday announced 1,400 layoffs, mostly technology workers in the company's operations division, as CEO Elliott Hill's turnaround work continues: www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
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Nike announces 1,400 layoffs, mostly in operations and technology
This is the fourth consecutive year of significant layoffs at Nike. The company said the layoffs are part of an ongoing turnaround effort.
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Nike late Thursday announced a $300 million cost-cutting charge, mostly related to recent layoffs: www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NEW: Nike says its factory workers should earn enough to pay their basic needs and have some money left over. In Indonesia, its factory workforce has shrunk where the minimum wage is considered enough to live on. And it has grown, dramatically, where the opposite is true.
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Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia
After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Nike says factory workers should earn enough to pay their basic expenses and have some money left over. But its expansion in Indonesia over the last decade has directly undermined this goal, an analysis by @propublica.org and @oregonian.com found. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
For @oregonian.com and @propublica.org: The average worker at suppliers that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says. None of the workers I spoke with in Indonesia, Nike’s second-largest production hub, said they made that much. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
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Nike says its factory workers make nearly double the minimum wage. In Indonesia, workers say, ‘It’s not true’
The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with roughly 100 workers in Nike’s second-largest production hub. None said they made anywhere near twice the minimum wage.
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Bill Oram @handle.invalid · 02/09/2025
An ugly injury ended his career but Marcus Lattimore could always fall back on being a South Carolina football icon. But after a few years, he started to ask: "Is this all it's gonna be for me?" He moved to Oregon, found a home and found his voice — remarkably, as a poet. New at @oregonian.com:
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Football made him a star. Poetry, and Portland, made him whole. | Bill Oram
After the world watched him suffer a career-ending injury, the former NFL draft pick says Portland gave him his life back.
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
OHSU on Thursday announced a $2 billion gift from Phil and Penny Knight that could "revolutionize" cancer care:
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Phil and Penny Knight pledge $2 billion to OHSU to ‘revolutionize’ cancer care
The charitable donation, one of the largest in higher education and state history, will support cancer research.
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Bill Oram @handle.invalid · 13/08/2025
Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle said he would be interested in joining Tom Dundon's ownership group “if it helped to keep the team here." He told @matthewkish.bsky.social that he would represent only a "tiny speck" of overall investment. www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2025...
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Trail Blazers buyer wants more local investors. One Oregon billionaire is interested
It’s unclear how many Oregonians could ultimately own part of Portland’s NBA team.
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Elliot Njus @elliotnj.us · 20/05/2025
Keen quietly closed its Portland factory, according to a WSJ report
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Keen quietly closed its Portland factory: report
The Portland company will open a larger factory in Kentucky, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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The Oregonian Sports @oregoniansports.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Knight made an offer on the team in 2022.
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Nike co-founder Phil Knight no longer interested in purchasing Trail Blazers
Knight made an offer on the team in 2022.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Good explainer. How Trump’s Tariffs Could Affect Nike, Its Workers and Prices @matthewkish.bsky.social @oregonian.com
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How Trump’s Tariffs Could Affect Nike and Its Workers
The sportswear company offers a case study in the ripple effects of the global trade war, including how workers can get squeezed.
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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Lots of focus on the trade war's impact on big industry. Here's @matthewkish.bsky.social on how the tariffs are clobbering Oregon small businesses. “The reality is everything is just on hold...If this does not get sorted out in the next 90, 120 days, we will end up having nothing to sell.”
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How Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs have rattled Oregon small businesses
A 90-day pause on most new tariffs hasn’t calmed fears that some companies could be wiped out.
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Jonathan Bach @jonathanmbach.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"The announcement body slammed the sportswear industry, one of Oregon’s economic engines, and one without an easy answer to Trump’s steep new surcharges on products imported from Asian countries," via @matthewkish.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
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‘Tariff tantrum’ will squeeze Oregon’s sneaker business
President Trump this week announced steep surcharges on products from countries where Nike and others make athletic footwear and apparel.
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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss?
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CEO Lip-Bu Tan plans a ‘new Intel’ that looks a lot like the old one
"Under my leadership, intel will be an engineering focused company," he promised, pledging to return Intel to its roots.
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Zane @zane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
People say information wants to be free, but the truth is that if @jamiebgoldberg.bsky.social didn't track down these facts, the public would never know. Watchdog reporting like this is why local news matters
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Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Weeks before an expected trial, and days after Nike's female-focused Super Bowl ad, a sweeping sex discrimination lawsuit against the company has tentatively settled, likely ending a yearslong legal fight about its treatment of women. @matthewkish.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
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Nike settles sweeping sex discrimination lawsuit
The case was scheduled for trial next month. The settlement includes the recognition of an unspecified class of plaintiffs.
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Elliot Njus @elliotnj.us · 31/01/2025
Hundreds of Northern California investors who allege Umpqua Bank backed a customer's $450 million Ponzi scheme will make their case in a California courtroom next week. @matthewkish.bsky.social reports:
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Class action against Umpqua Bank over customer’s Ponzi scheme heads to trial next week
Plaintiffs hope to recover upwards of $360 million. The bank plans to “vigorously” defend itself.
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Wells Fargo on Wednesday announced 500 layoffs in Hillsboro and 221 in Salem:
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Wells Fargo announces hundreds of Oregon layoffs
The layoffs include 500 in Hillsboro and 221 in Salem.
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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Pat Gelsinger is the fourth consecutive Intel CEO with an unexpected departure. the chipmaker is once again scrambling to find a replacement.
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires abruptly amid chipmaker’s deepening struggles
He spent the first 30 years of his career at the chipmaker, then returned in 2021 in hopes of reviving the business. It hasn't gone well.
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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Intel got its $7.9B in CHIPS Act subsidies. The deal includes $1.9B for spending in Oregon. The final agreement reflects Intel's delayed and scaled back expansion amid financial trouble. It's unclear when, or if, the company will build the fourth phase of its D1X research factory in Hillsboro.
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Intel finalizes $7.9 billion in federal subsidies for scaled-back expansion
The Biden administration is in the uncomfortable position of awarding subsidies to a company that's cutting jobs.
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Nike on Monday said Treasure Heinle will succeed Monique Matheson as the company's top human resources executive.
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Nike’s top HR executive announces retirement as executive shuffle continues
Treasure Heinle will succeed Monique Matheson as Nike’s top human resources officer on Jan. 6.
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Samantha Swindler @editorswindler.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Still figuring out the difference between lists and feeds and starter packs, but I'm trying to put all my Oregon news sources in one spot. Is this anything? Should it have been a list? Who am I missing?
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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Oregon state revenues have exceeded forecasts in every budget cycle since 2011. The new state economist wants to reform the forecasts, hoping for more accurate budget projections (which would, in turn, mean smaller kickers...or none at all).
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Goodbye to record-breaking kicker tax rebates? Oregon’s new state economist revamps revenue forecast
But the strong economy means the next kicker is getting bigger.
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Matthew Kish @matthewkish.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Big League Chew, which was invented by a Portland Mavericks pitcher, on Monday filed a trademark lawsuit against a licensing partner:
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Big League Chew, invented on Portland baseball field, sues manufacturer in sticky trademark dispute
Rob Nelson came up with the idea for Big League Chew in 1977 when he pitched for the Portland Mavericks.
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Mims Copeland @mimscopeland.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
for local business stories, try @kcd.bsky.social @elliotnj.us @matthewkish.bsky.social @rogoway.bsky.social @jonathanmbach.bsky.social
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16/11/2024
Hello, BlueSky! We have a list of all of our reporters on here as of now. You can give the list a pin to your home feed or find your favorite Oregon journalist to follow 😉 We will see you out there in the skeets! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Jonathan Bach @jonathanmbach.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A team lift by @oregonian.bsky.social biz reporters: www.oregonlive.com/business/202...
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In trade-dependent Oregon, Trump’s tariffs could reverberate
If the president-elect follows through, the tariffs could hit the apparel industry, one of Oregon’s key sectors. If other countries take retaliatory measures, Oregon's many exports could suffer.
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