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Jim Gupta-Carlson
July 06, 2009
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want to donate, but do not want to become part of facebook or twitter
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July 07, 2009
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RE: want to donate, but do not want to become part of facebook or twitter
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By credit card, designate your donation to Seattle Post Globe at this KCTS page: https://www.justgive.org/nonprofits/donate.jsp?ein=91-122189 Or send checks to: Seattle PostGlobe KCTS 9 401 Mercer St., Suite 150 Seattle, WA 98109 |
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Jim Gupta-Carlson
July 07, 2009
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Focus your content
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My recommendation is to ditch the coverage of sports, food, and the arts. Many other sites cover local sports much better. There is plenty of coverage of the arts and the local food scene. But where the PostGlobe has really shone so far is in its coverage of local news and politics. I encourage you to focus there. Provide what no one else can. I can read movie reviews in plenty of places. But there are a dearth of sites covering city hall and digging deep into the issues, and you have done a tremendous job in those areas. Keep up the great work. |
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July 08, 2009
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matching donations?
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| You mentioned that you're nonprofit - do you have 501(c)3 status? My husband works for MSFT, which matches donations to registered nonprofits. I'd love to be able to double our impact. | |
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July 11, 2009
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matching donations
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We don't. But donations to our organization are tax deductible because they go through KCTS, which does have 501(c)3 status. So you can double up your money. Plus another donor generously is offering to match up to $3,000-a-month in donations for the next two months. So you can double up your donations that way too! Thanks to everyone who donated last month to enable us to get our match. We're embarking raising another $3,000 to get our $3,000 match for next month. Please consider making recurring monthly donations, so we can stabilize our funding from month to month. Thanks to your donations, we know we can survive through July. But whether we can survive beyond that depends on how much we can raise in the next two-and-a-half weeks. At a minimum, we're hoping to raise $4,000-a-month, which will enable us to continue paying one full-time person (through the $3,000 matching donation) and our freelance writers. It would be great to raise $10,000 a month so we can add a second full-time person to bring you more content and allow me to stop working 12-16 hours a day, six days a week. To be honest, I'm starting to run out of gas. |
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July 12, 2009
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"Subscription"
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| A subscription to The Seattle Times is $5.00 per week, and I would have to throw away half a tree on Sundays. You get the $$ instead. And I agree with the comment about ditching or seriously limiting sports, food, and arts. Much as I love the arts and hold them as a dear part of my life, we need a modern-day Walter Cronkite of Seattle. Go for it. The check is in the mail...$20 per month, as long as you are in business. | |
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Eldon Leuning
July 18, 2009
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RE: "Subscription"
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Hi thanks very much for your donation. And thank you to Some Feedback and everyone else who has suggested focusing our content. I definitely hear you. Here's the thing. We're using the donations to pay reporters to try to dig up stories others aren't doing. City Light superintendent Jose Carrasco's $40,000 bonus is an example of a story that we found that the citizens of Seattle may not have ever learned about. But some of our old colleagues like our Mariners reporter and our film and theater critics feel so passionately about continuing to write that they're doing it for free. This site is a labor of love -- love for the work we've trained our whole lives to do. And part of the reason why I started this is to try to give those of us former P-I folks who want to keep writing or take photographs a vehicle where their work will continue to be seen. Others like former P-I food critic Rebekah Denn have their own blogs. Their work appears here because I want to try to give their blogs exposure. Personally it means a lot to me that if they feel passionately about writing that their work have a home. I hope you'll enjoy their work though. Hopefully someday they'll be able to get compensated again for what they are contributing to the city and the arts scene. |
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kery murakami
July 19, 2009
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Regional coverage
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Also apologies for this very belated response to Algona Reader and Bothell reader who both asked for more regional coverage. Algona Reader said this: "I agree with Bothell Reader. I canceled my subscription to the PI because it was too Seattle focused. We need coverage outside of Seattle, and I would gladly support an entity that does that." I would love to have more regional coverage. You can say the deaths of papers like the Bellevue Journal-American and others that covered King County outside Seattle had an even bigger impact than the death of the P-I because nobody is really covering areas like Bothell, Algona or even Bellevue. I guess right now we're doing all we can do to fill the gaps in Seattle because that's what I personally know best. But there is a huge need for someone to try to do what we're doing in King County. For now, we're trying to write about county issues. We were the only one, outside of KUOW, to cover King County Executive Kurt Triplett's proposed tax increase and budget cuts on Thursday. We were also the first to write about the debate over how to make Metro's budget cuts, and whether most of those cuts should come from Seattle bus service. http://seattlepostglobe.org/2009/05/23/bus-riders-in-seattle But having been a journalist for 20 years -- including stints covering the county and suburban cities early in my career --I'm really distressed by how huge of a need there is out there for real coverage of the issues. Imagine, a city the size of Bellevue doesn't have a newspaper! I'm really kind of surprised there doesn't seem to be more outrage out there and there seems to be no civic or philanthropic concern or effort in our area over what's going on. Hopefully more people will become concerned enough to act. In the meantime, we'll try to hang in there and do what we can. We need help to keep this site going. But we also need help covering all the things that need covering. I really hope other sites pop up to cover the rest of the county. Since I'm writing, let me pose this question. Where are our leaders -- not only the political leaders, but the philanthropists and our civic leaders who've acted before when there's been a need in our community? Civic leaders in other cities -- like San Diego and Minneapolis -- have acted. But not here in Seattle. |
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kery murakami
July 19, 2009
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Putting my money where my mouth is
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| I'm sending in a check for $10 for another month subscription. I am a regular reader of the P-G, but as much a skeptic as a supporter. I strongly believe that subscription on-line journalism is the future of quality journalism (I can only take so many teeth whitener ads over my morning coffee). But I agree that the P-G needs to focus its content and its purpose--and soon. WHY should I read the P-G everyday? Over the long term I need better reasons than ideological ones--to "save" quality journalism, or put former P-I reporters to work. I need to know that I will get information about my city that I need daily. The occasional "calling the politician to task" story is not enough. I also think that the commenter who posted about the liberal slant has a point, albeit a small one. A news source needs to be balanced, unless it explicitly promotes itself as an outlet for special interest (Which is fine, but should be disclosed explicitly). Seattle doesn't need another outlet for liberal ideology, what it needs is a news source that is willing to be fairly critical of all interests and positions in this city--if the P-G is going to be free of the oversight of a strongly biased editorial board, then it has an opportunity to develop a new rhetoric of ideologically balanced news coverage. Imagine! That certainly is not available anywhere on TV. Whatever your political leanings are, such a news space would be a breath of fresh air. Why not make that the P-G contribution to news in Seattle? That I would support whole-heartedly--and I would subscribe regularly. | |
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July 20, 2009
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Contribution . . .Keeping you going . . .
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| I'm writing another check now . . .but, to survive initially, you have got to "pick a focus" that is unique (unique selling proposition as we say in marketing) . . .local and regional and state government, big issues, as someone said earlier . . we need the "Walter Cronkite" of our local/regional/state journalism - balanced . . .asking the hard questions . . . keep government and business honest! | |
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July 22, 2009
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boredom quotient
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| not sure if this kind of "old print guys go on-line" site can ever make it... the gray, gray gray matter is as exciting, (and probably as doomed as the Times. More sex please. | |
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July 25, 2009
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