Tiffany Eckert
ReporterTiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and worked in a variety of media including television, technical writing, photography and daily print news before moving to the Pacific Northwest.
As a life long public radio enthusiast, Tiffany has contributed to KLCC with reports on health, education, social justice, environmental issues and local and regional news.
In 2008, she became a staff co-host on KLCC’s award-winning news magazine, Northwest Passage, with News Director Tripp Sommer.
In 2011, Tiffany produced the 20th Anniversary program finale which featured every past co-hosts’ outro over two decades, which were retrieved from recordings on cassette tapes. Later that year, she joined Tripp to inaugurate KLCC’s local, mid-day program, News at Noon.
Tiffany’s reporting has been recognized as part of the KLCC News team's Edward R. Murrow Overall Excellence awards annually from 2019-2023. She’s won individual writing and reporting awards from Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon Associated Press, Public Media Journalists Association (formerly PRNDI,) Education Writers Association, among others.
For Tiff, the good life is spending time with her husband, son and the rest of her lovin’ family and friends. She adores traveling, singing, seeing epic concerts, growing things, and hearing really good jokes.
Tiffany has a cool cat and a Boston Terrier named Buckminster. And then there’s that bit about her never saying no to a fresh picked tomato…
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The Trump administration’s mass firings of federal employees are being felt especially hard in rural communities across Oregon. While the potential impact to the state’s unemployment rate won’t be known until late March, workers who recently lost their jobs are already feeling the effects. -
Jeremy Gates, the executive director of White Bird Clinic, has left his role after more than two years. -
The DOGE-driven purge of federal workers is leaving Oregon’s National Forests with fewer caretakers. -
Thousands of blight-infected filbert trees were painstakingly replaced last month at Dorris Ranch in Springfield. Recently, park rangers discovered someone—or something—uprooted and destroyed a large section of saplings. -
The deadline to update children’s vaccination records is Feb. 19. When it comes to immunizing school-aged kids against preventable diseases, Oregon means business. -
Small Businesses looking to “go green” have a new funding opportunity in Lane County. -
It’s been more than four years since the Holiday Farm fire destroyed hundreds of homes along the McKenzie River. Last Friday, Homes for Good held a grand opening to celebrate a completely rebuilt housing community where a mobile home park once stood. -
BRING’s annual Fix-It Fair is happening at the Planet Improvement Center in Eugene this Sunday. It’s a chance for folks to bring in broken stuff, from small appliances to wooden furniture, and get help from skilled technicians to mend it—for free. -
The Trump administration’s on-again, off-again federal funding freeze sowed widespread anxiety and confusion across the country and around Oregon. In Mapleton, locals feared a delay in federal grant payments would jeopardize efforts to rebuild their failing water system. -
Friday morning, St. Vincent de Paul opened an application period for vacancies at a low-income housing property in west Eugene. The window of time to apply was 30 minutes. But slots filled a whole lot quicker.
