Geddry’s Newsletter is a mother-daughter newsroom written by Mary Geddry and Shanley Hurt. We write from Oregon, but never only about Oregon. Our work follows the fault lines wherever they run: through rural communities and city halls, through courtrooms and boardrooms, through Washington, through war, through poisoned rivers and exhausted paychecks, through all the places where power expects not to be named too plainly.
We cover politics, public life, environmental justice, economic inequality, working-class dignity, the rights of nature, and the human consequences of decisions made by people who will never have to live with them. We write about local stories, national stories, and global ones, because the machinery that grinds people down does not stop at the county line. Neither should our attention.
We believe journalism should do more than repeat official statements in a respectable tone. It should tell the truth about what is happening, who benefits, who pays, who is being lied to, and what language is being used to make violence sound ordinary. It should illuminate, not anesthetize.
Who We Are
Mary and Shanley are a mother-daughter team with distinct voices and a shared commitment to honest, unsparing journalism. Mary writes daily analysis and deeper reported pieces with a wide-angle view of power, systems, and consequence. Shanley writes daily fresh pieces, deep dives, and a Sunday post that breaks the rhythm of despair with one reminder that decency still exists.
Mary Geddry writes with a long memory and a clear eye for power: who wields it, who launders it, who suffers beneath it, and who resists it anyway. Her work moves between the intimate and the structural, always asking what lies beneath the official version of events.
Shanley Hurt writes with urgency, wit, tenderness, and bite. She follows what is fresh, what is under-covered, what is absurd, and what is breaking people open. Her work ranges from sharp daily pieces to deeper dives to Sunday stories that insist the human heart has not been fully conquered.
Together, we publish daily, and when a story demands more than a day’s attention, we dig.
Why subscribe?
Because you are tired of being managed by language.
Because you want journalism that can still feel.
Because you want the dots connected, not merely listed.
Because you know that neutrality can be a mask worn by cowardice.
Because you want reporting that is unafraid to ask what a policy, a war, a budget, a law, a lie, or a silence is doing to actual human beings.
Subscribe for a morning rhythm, for daily dispatches, for deep dives, for clarity in an age of fog, and for a publication with a conscience. To be a part of something, because subscribers aren’t just readers. They’re part of a growing community that gives a damn about justice, about truth, and about each other.
What you’ll get
Mary’s morning roundup
A daily ritual delivered with Mary’s classic snark, hard-earned wit, and unmistakable eye for what lies beneath the official version. It is not just a summary of yesterday’s news, but a sharper read on what mattered, what was buried, what was distorted, and what may be coming next. Mary sees between the lines and names the deeper stakes with clarity, bite, and moral precision.
Daily reporting and analysis from both of us
Fresh pieces on the stories moving fastest, written without deference to euphemism, false balance, or the stale conventions of access journalism.
Deep dives when the story deserves more
Some stories cannot be told in a rush. When they ask for excavation, context, and a steadier hand, we go deeper.
Sunday’s reminder that not all humanity is bad
At the end of each chaotic week, Shanley goes looking for one story that can bring us back to ourselves. These Sunday pieces are shaped by her optimism, her deep belief that a better future is still worth fighting for, and her refusal to accept despair as realism. She does not buy the idea that “this is just the way the world is.” Instead, she looks for the grace, courage, decency, and stubborn humanity still flickering beneath the wreckage, and offers readers one story each week to remind them that the fight is not only against something, but for something too.
In Summary
Come for the roundup. Stay for the snark, the sharp analysis, the hard truths, the deep dives, the Sunday mercies, and a mother-daughter newsroom committed to naming the world as it is while still keeping faith with what it could be. Paid subscriptions do more than support this publication. They sustain the digging, the questioning, the truth-telling, and the daily labor of independent journalism.
