Paul Linnman (born January 25, 1947) is an American former television news reporter and anchor in Portland, Oregon, and radio personality in the same city. He is best known for his 1970 KATU report on the attempt by the Oregon Highway Division to dispose of a dead, beached whale by exploding it (beaches open to motor vehicles are considered state highways in Oregon). He worked for more than 30 years as a television news reporter, host and anchor, from 1967–1972 and 1978–2004. He had a talk radio show on KEX 1190 AM from 2003 to 2014, and subsequently has worked as a media consultant.
Education
Born in 1947, Linnman grew up in Portland and attended Wilson High School. He graduated from Portland State University, studying journalism.
Career
He began his broadcast career in 1967, when he was hired by Portland's ABC affiliate, KATU. The Evening program was replaced in September 1979 by PM Magazine, a nationally syndicated program with a similar format and local hosts with each affiliate station; Linnman also served as one of its regular co-hosts while at KGW.
Linnman left KGW in late 1983 to return to KATU, as host of a new daily one-hour afternoon local news and features program, Two at Four, scheduled to debut in January 1984. In September 1987, Linnman returned to news broadcasting, when KATU made him the anchor of its 6:30 p.m. weekday newscast.
In 2003, Linnman began hosting a morning talk show on Portland radio station KEX. In August 2004, he left KATU in order to focus exclusively on his KEX radio show,
Since 2014, he has worked as a media consultant.