# Coast Desk · Placement Note 001 (sample)

**Desk:** Coast Desk · Graphic Oregon child  
**Class:** Correspondence note for an existing paper  
**Not:** a newspaper we own · a CMS · Pioneer-as-employer · a staff job

## Slug
North-coast watershed packets only become news when three numbers fit a paper that already exists.

## Nut
Habitat and sediment studies sit on shelves until someone files a short correspondence the local paper can run. Coast Desk writes that note. Pioneer, Hipfish, Gazette, and Signal stay themselves. This desk does not wear their masthead.

## Why an existing paper
A stranger on the north coast already reads those papers. Inventing a new site would not place the work. The path is: one subject → one note → one editor at a paper that already prints.

## Three numbers a packet can defend (pattern)
Drawn from the public Graphic Oregon / Demeter research corpus (Nestucca-class habitat and sediment work on GO `/research/`). This sample is a filing pattern, not a republished Pioneer article.

1. Name the reach (one watershed, one season).
2. Name the limiting factor the study actually measured.
3. Name one Monday action a council or county can take without a new website.

## So-what (Monday)
File the note to an existing desk. Do not stand up a CMS. Do not brand this as Pioneer.

## Placement proof (craft, not property)
[Tillamook County Pioneer — assistant editor](https://www.tillamookcountypioneer.net/author/assistant-editor/)  
Pioneer stays Pioneer. Coast Desk is the correspondence name.

## Sources
- Graphic Oregon research index: https://graphicoregon.com/research/
- Pioneer author path (placement, not ownership): URL above

## Offer
Sample free on this door. A named placement note for one existing paper: **$85**.