Jim Cornelius
Editor
The Nugget Newspaper
Born in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Jim Cornelius grew up dreaming of distant frontiers, of mountain men, long hunters, African explorers. Graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Jim received honors in History even though he primarily focused on a self-directed course in woods running. With that background, journalism was a natural career path to stumble upon, and he did. He began freelancing for The Nugget Newspaper in Sisters, Oregon, in 1994, became a full-time staff reporter (the only one the paper has ever had) in 1996, and became an editor in 2000. Since 2017, he has served as Editor in Chief. A musician and a songwriter, he also remains a woods runner dreaming of distant frontiers. He is the keeper of the blog Frontier Partisans.com and the author of the book “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.”