Author Archives: Mike Fancher

Washington News Council Hearing

The Washington News Council will hold a public hearing on a complaint against The Seattle Times from Dr. Richard Wollert, a Vancouver psychologist. The hearing will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 1, at Town Hall Seattle. Audience … Continue reading

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KING-5 Photojournalists Dominate NPPA Awards

The photojournalism team at King-TV has been named the nation’s best among large market stations. The National Press Photographers Association also awarded Doug Burgess of KING the 2013 Ernie Crisp Photographer of the Year. According to NPPA, Judge Brian Kaufman … Continue reading

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NW Journalism Scholarships

Deadlines are nearing for several Northwest journalism scholarship programs, including: AAJA Seattle Washington News Council Northwest Journalists of Color Washington Coalition for Open Government, which offers a $1,000 cash prize for the Washington State high school junior or senior who … Continue reading

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My Edmonds News lauded in Knight Digital Media Center

Entrepreneurial journalists in the Pacific Northwest continue to draw attention for their innovative ideas.  The News Leadership 3.0 blog at the Knight Digital Media Center features the work of Teresa Wippel in creating and sustaining MyEdmondsNews.com. In addition to advertising, … Continue reading

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Mapping Our Voices for Equality

Matt Rosenberg of the Public Data Ferret blogs about another example of emerging media in Greater Seattle. MOVE — Mapping Our Voices for Equality — is a government-funded effort to enable people to tell their stories about healthy living. It … Continue reading

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Seattle fashion bloggers looking sharp in Pacific Northwest Magazine

The Seattle Journalism Commons includes a list of noteworthy local blogs and news sites that are redefining news and information in the Greater Seattle area. Pacific Northwest Magazine highlights a category not yet on the list — fashion bloggers. The … Continue reading

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Seattle couple completes 50-state newspaper tour

Seattleites Paul Steinle and Sara Brown have completed a year-long road trip to answer the question, “Who needs newspapers?” They presented their findings last week at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) national convention in St. … Continue reading

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New local partners for Seattle Times

The Seattle Times announced it has added three websites to its News Partner Network. They are Inside Bainbridge, My Everett News and Seattle’s Child. All together, The Times now has forty partners in three categories: local news sites, including many … Continue reading

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Building alliances for investigative journalism

Sandy Rowe, former editor of The Oregonian, makes the case for collaboration in local investigative reporting in a new discussion paper for the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. She writes: Growing evidence suggests that collaborations … Continue reading

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Ben Huh aims his harpoon at big breaking news

Cheezburger Network CEO Ben Huh is advancing some ideas he broached in a recent appearance in Seattle. In a new blog post, Huh addresses the question, “Why are  we still consuming news like it’s 1899?” Huh’s overall assessment is blunt: … Continue reading

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