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Jaquiss graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984. He spent eleven years as a Wall Street and Singapore-based crude oil trader, working for Cargill, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
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His story was published in Willamette Week in May 2004. He continues to write for Willamette Week. After some concerns about business practices, he sought a career change, eventually enrolling at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and got his master"s degree in 1997.
He began his journalism career in Portland in January 1998, working for Willamette Week.
Goldschmidt story Jaquiss almost lost his prize-winning scoop about Neil Goldschmidt when he and his editor (Mark Zusman) decided to give Goldschmidt a full week to respond to the allegations Willamette Week was planning to make. Goldschmidt, who had previously told Zusman to "go get "em" after a lunch in the middle of the paper"s investigation, took his story to The Oregonian instead.
Zusman told the newspaper industry magazine Editor & Publisher that he and Jaquiss decided to post the story online immediately, so as not to risk being beat by the daily. Jaquiss" Pulitzer represented only the third alternative weekly paper to have been awarded the prize.
Kitzhaber scandal Jaquiss was credited with having "brought down" another Oregon governor, John Kitzhaber, in 2015.
Following a series of damaging articles, many of them written by Jaquiss for the Willamette Week in late 2014 and early 2015, Kitzhaber and his fiancee Cylvia Hayes became the subject of a criminal investigation probing possible conflicts of interest and misuse of state resources. Kitzhaber resigned in February 2015. Other work.
