{"id":418,"date":"2011-07-15T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T00:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/?p=418"},"modified":"2011-07-15T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T00:02:48","slug":"new-local-partners-for-seattle-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/2011\/07\/15\/new-local-partners-for-seattle-times\/","title":{"rendered":"New local partners for Seattle Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Seattle Times News Partner Network logo\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2011\/04\/06\/2014699415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"90\" \/>The Seattle Times <a href=\"http:\/\/community.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/mobile\/?type=story&amp;id=2015576568&amp;\">announced<\/a> it has added three websites to its <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/flatpages\/local\/newspartners\/newspartnernetwork.html\">News Partner Network<\/a>. They are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebainbridge.com\/\">Inside Bainbridge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/myeverettnews.com\/\">My Everett News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/seattleschild.com\/\">Seattle&#8217;s Child<\/a>. All together, The Times now has forty partners in three categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/flatpages\/local\/newspartners\/localnewssites.html\">local news sites<\/a>, including many neighborhood news sites and the <a href=\"http:\/\/socialcapitalreview.org\/public-data-ferret\/\">Public Data Ferret<\/a>, a project of the non-profit\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/publiceyenorthwest.org\/\">Public Eye Northwest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/flatpages\/local\/newspartners\/ethnicmedia.html\">ethnic media<\/a> &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwasianweekly.com\/\">Northwest Asian Weekly<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvnorthwest.com\/\">Northwest Vietnamese News<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/flatpages\/local\/newspartners\/lifeblogs.html\">life blogs<\/a>&#8221; on topics such as activities and hobbies, food and drink, outdoors, health and history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Times launched the network in August 2009, with a relatively small grant from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-lab.org\/\">J-Lab<\/a>. At the time there were just a <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2009743640_webnewspartners26m.html\">handful of local partners<\/a>, but they included real online news pioneers such as Tracy Record of the <a href=\"http:\/\/westseattleblog.com\">West Seattle Blog<\/a>, Kate and Cory Bergman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextdoormedia.com\/about\/\">Next Door Media<\/a> and Justin Carder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolhillseattle.com\/\">Capitol Hill Seattle Blo<\/a>g.<\/p>\n<p>The network has grow remarkably. I&#8217;m unaware of any newspaper in the country that has done as much as The Times to build such a collaborative network. A <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/flatpages\/local\/newspartners\/newspartnernetwork.html\">list of success stories<\/a> on The Times&#8217; site includes cross-linking to stories, photo swapping, training on topics such as mobile reporting and video editing. It also mentions two collaborative news projects, one on <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/flatpages\/local\/invisiblefamilies.html\">homeless families<\/a> and the other on <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/flatpages\/local\/graffitiproject.html\">graffiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Times says it wants to establish and build cooperative relationships with other news sites. If you have questions or suggestions to include in the network, contact Bob Payne &#8211; bpayne at seattletimes dot com, Times editor for partnerships and audience engagement.<\/p>\n<p>The News Partner Network is a prime example of what&#8217;s working in the Seattle area news and information ecosystem. Other examples are included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/state-of-the-media\/\">State of the Media<\/a> section of the Seattle Journalism Commons. We invite you to submit other examples.<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. In the interest of full disclosure, I worked at The Times for 30 years, but all of this wonderful work happened well after I retired in 2008. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times announced it has added three websites to its News Partner Network. They are Inside Bainbridge, My Everett News and Seattle&#8217;s Child. All together, The Times now has forty partners in three categories: local news sites, including many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/2011\/07\/15\/new-local-partners-for-seattle-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[25,27,35,65,71,84,85,116,119,121,123,125,140,142,158,159,174,186],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-re-inventing-journalism","category-whats-working","tag-bob-payne","tag-capitol-hill-seattle-blog","tag-cory-bergman","tag-inside-bainbridge","tag-j-lab","tag-justin-carder","tag-kate-bergman","tag-my-everett-news","tag-news-partner-network","tag-next-door-media","tag-northwest-asian-weekly","tag-northwest-vietnamese-news","tag-public-data-ferret","tag-public-eye-northwest","tag-seattle-times","tag-seattles-child","tag-tracy-record","tag-west-seattle-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/seattlejournalismcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}