Two standout journalists will speak to attendees of the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Portland, April 15-18.

THURSDAY, 7:30 p.m. — Nigel Jaquiss, 47, has been a reporter at Willamette Week since 1998. In 2005, he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of investigative articles that exposed a former mayor’s inappropriate relationship with a teenage girl during his tenure. Jaquiss has won other local and national reporting honors, including two first place awards from Investigative Writers and Editors and three fi rst place awards from the Education Writers Association. He has twice been runner-up for the Bruce Baer Award, given annually to the best reporter in Oregon.

Prior to joining Willamette Week, Jaquiss traded oil for 11 years in New York and Singapore. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

FRIDAY, 1 p.m. — Tim Harrower has been an editor, designer and columnist at newspapers large (The Oregonian), midsized (The Rochester Times-Union) and small (the Times weeklies in Beaverton, Ore.). He became a journalist in the ’80s after his fi rst career choice — rock ’n’ roll superlegend — fizzled out. Harrower’s first book, “The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook,” has been a fixture in newsrooms and classrooms around the world, translated into Russian, Chinese and Polish. His followup, “Inside Reporting,” is America’s most popular journalism textbook.

He currently hosts journalism workshops, consults on redesigns, noodles around with multimedia, composes music and writes fiction at his dog-and-frog ranch deep in the Oregon woods.