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After the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper stopped publishing and laid off virtually all of its staff, a few of us former P-I journalists -- reporters, photographers, copy editors -- started this site. P-I reporter Kery Murakami pushed the idea along, got it up and running and kept it going for almost a year before leaving for greener pastures (read, "paying job"). But all of us wanted this site to exist because we believe our city needs more journalists not fewer.
We want this to be a community conversation about our city and about the concerns of the people in our city. We will feature stories from journalists, including many who once worked for the P-I. But this city is in the forefront of new journalism, and we intend to feature the best of it.
And we will include citizen journalism. Stories from you, our readers. We want to hear from you. Tell us what you want to read about and what we should be reporting on, and post your stories, photos and videos on our site. Of course, just as we edit traditional journalists work, your posts and photos will be reviewed first. To submit an article, click Post in the top menu.
In the beginning we worked as volunteers. Today, we're still mostly doing this as volunteers. But, thanks to your donations, we've been able to begin paying a little -- but far less than what it will take to get off unemployment. We're going to keep the Seattle PostGlobe running as long as we can. But we're going to need your support, as contributors to our news site and as financial contributors. To be a financial contributor, click
Donate in the top menu.
WHO WE ARE
STAFF:
Sally Deneen, news curator, also contributes environment stories. She has covered such diverse topics as recycling, the world's fast-disappearing endangered plants, global climate change and the nation's shrinking wetlands as a contributing writer for E: The Environmental Magazine. She also has written for such publications as Organic Gardening, US News & World Report and Columbia Journalism Review, and was a contributor to the book "Feeling the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Change" (Routledge, 2004). As a freelance writer, Sally contributed to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Newspapers in Education project, The Zone, in 2007 and 2008. Sally is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Northwest Science Writers Association. You can contact her at SallyDeneen@gmail.com
Larry Johnson, news curator, also is a contributor. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years, most recently as the national/foreign editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper. His award-winning writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers and he has traveled in more than 35 countries, covering Iraq for the PI in 1999, 2002 and 2003. A collection of his work, “Looking for Trouble, Dispatches from the Middle East, Asia and Central and South America,” was published in 2008. He is currently working on a historical novel on the U.S.-Philippines War. You can email him at larryjohnson@larryjohnsononline.com.
News curator and contributor Collin Tong is a freelance journalist and frequent contributor for Crosscut, the International Examiner, and Seattle Post-Globe. He was a stringer for the former Eastside Journal-American in Bellevue and news and features editor for the African Forum News. He was a recipient of the Michele Clark Fellowship from the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education's 1976 Summer Program for Minority Journalists and awards from the Washington Press Association and Fund for Journalism on Jewish Life. Collin has served on the board of the Asian-American Journalists Association and is the former senior director of communications at Washington State University. You can contact him at collin.tong9@gmail.com.
News curator and copy editor Leighton Wingate worked for about 19 years as a copy editor at the Seattle P-I, mostly on the news/business desk, with additional experience editing features and sports content. He also laid out pages and worked as a slotman.
News curator Chris Beringer has been an editor at newspapers in Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle. Her most recent job was assistant managing editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where she oversaw the paper’s consumer initiatives, special sections, photography and design, and coverage of lifestyle and entertainment topics. She is a past president of the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and was voted into the AASFE Features Journalism Hall of Fame in 2009.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Martha Baskin helped found Free Speech Radio News in 1999 when the board of Pacifica, the oldest public radio network in the nation, was intent on selling the network's flagship stations to commercial interests. She was on the team that tried to save the KCMU News Hour in 1995 before the station lost its prime time news hour and was sold to Paul Allen becoming KEXP. Baskin has produced documentaries and features for the National Radio Project's Making Contact on subjects ranging from Guantanamo to MST or Military Sexual Trauma. She's been published in Sojourners Magazine and the now defunct online journal, The New Standard. Once upon a time, she did script analyses for The American Playhouse and theater reviews for NYC's The Villager. And yes, she was an editor of her high school newspaper.
Rebekah Denn, a reporter and food writer, still catches her breath at the sight of Seattle’s skyline at night. In her years as a food writer and restaurant critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, she wrote about every part of the city’s culinary scene, but her previous specialties included everything from education to discrimination to book reviews to the death penalty. The recipient of two James Beard Awards, she is a regular contributor to Sunset magazine, The Seattle Times and The Christian Science Monitor, and frequently writes for other publications.
Cecelia Goodnow has been writing about children's books for two decades, initially as a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Her newspaper career has led her to many topics, including education, politics, lifestyle trends, health and pop culture, but some of her most rewarding stories have been about the world of children's books, whose talented creators too often go unsung.
Regina Hackett is the former art critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I loved that job every day, but it's gone and I've moved on. As they say in the movies, to infinity and beyond. In 1993, she won the Chemical Bank Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism, first place in the contemporary art category. In 1996 and 2005, she won first place for criticism from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. She has an MA in journalism with an emphasis on arts criticism from the University of Oregon and a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley.
John Hickey, Mariners reporter, is a longtime spectator of the Major League Baseball scene and currently is a National Baseball Writer for AOL FanHouse. He's spent the past two decades watching the best (and worst) of West Coast baseball, including the 116-win Seattle team in 2001 and the three consecutive AL championships put together by Oakland from 1988 to 1990. A product of the University of California -- Go Bears! -- he is in his 10th season covering the Seattle Mariners after 15 years of covering the Oakland Athletics.
InvestigateWest is a new model for investigative journalism focused on the Pacific Northwest and the West.We are an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of investigative and narrative journalism. InvestigateWest was started by a group of accomplished journalists with a track record of producing investigative stories and, with them, change in public policy and corporate practice. Our mission is to cut across the old media borders to reach and engage audiences by new and powerful means. We harness the synergies of the printed word with the evocative power of photography, video and audio to produce reports used and distributed by a wide variety of news organizations, whether online, print, television or radio. Staff: Rita Hibbard, Executive Director and Editor, Robert McClure, Chief Environmental Correspondent and Carol Smith, Senior Writer.
Paul Nyhan is a dad who made his living for the last 21 years as a working journalist, with long stints at Bloomberg News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper (RIP) and Congressional Quarterly. So far, I have split my career between the two Washingtons, spending half in the nation’s capitol and the other 10 years in Seattle. During those years I covered a lot of territory, reporting on Congress, the Federal Reserve, lobbying, public housing policies and even those derivatives now wreaking havoc with our economy. In Seattle, I wrote about the economy, aerospace, organized labor, disability, taxes, working poverty, family news and the broken economics of child care. My most satisfying beat, though, was my last as a family reporter, since it allowed me to work on my most important job — parent of a five-month-old baby, a daughter in preschool and a son in kindergarten — while still working as a journalist. My newspaper is now closed, but I am still on the beat, writing about early learning for Thrive by Five Washington, and covering family trends and news for various publications.
D. Parvaz was an editorial writer and columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, until March 2009, when the paper shut down. At the P-I, where she worked for a decade, Parvaz wrote about politics, often as seen through the lens of popular culture. Born in Iran, she has lived in Tehran, Dubai, Vancouver (B.C.), Tokyo, Tucson and Seattle, and previously worked at the Asahi Evening News, The Arizona Republic and the Seattle Times. As a Nieman fellow, Parvaz studied constitutional law as well as media and politics. She is currently doing a research project on Iranian media at the University of Cambridge. Parvaz also blogs at Something to Say.
Pop music critic Gene Stout was the pop music critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for more than two decades. He is a Seattle native who graduated in editorial journalism from the University of Washington. His stories have appeared in newspapers around the country through the New York Times and Hearst Corporation news services. His work continues at GeneStout.com, an independent online source for news, previews, reviews, feature stories and silly rumors about local and national music. Occasionally, Gene draws outside the lines of popular music to write about food, wine and lifestyle. "I started this journey when Little Richard knocked me out of the cradle," Gene says. "And I continue to be a sucker for a great musical hook." Over the years, Gene has interviewed hundreds of musicians, from Eddie Vedder and Courtney Love to James Taylor and Quincy Jones. In an interview with Gene, Dick Clark of "American Bandstand" fame said, “If you’re lucky enough to find a line of work that you like, and you don’t watch the clock while you’re doing it, then you don’t mind when Monday rolls around and you’ve got to go back and do it again.” Amen. You can email Gene at gene@genestout.com and you can find him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/popmusiccritic.
Mark Trahant is a writer, teacher and a “Twitter poet.” He is a 2009-2010 Kaiser Media Fellow and will be writing about health care reform with the focus of learning from programs the government already operates, such as the Indian Health Service. As part of his project, he files regular Twitter posts at TrahantReports. He is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where he chaired the daily editorial board, directed a staff of writers, editors and a cartoonist. He has been chairman and chief executive officer at the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. The Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit is the country's premier institute for providing advanced training and services nationally to help news media reflect diversity in content, staffing and business operations. Trahant remains chair of Maynard’s board of directors. He also serves as a trustee of the Diversity Institute, an affiliate of the Freedom Forum. Trahant was a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and 2005. He is a member of Idaho's Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and former president of the Native American Journalists Association.
Seattle native Bill White returned home after 18 years in Boston, where he began as a fruit vendor and ended as a theater director, to become a regular contributor to the Seattle PI’s arts and entertainment section. His writing on film, music, and theater appeared there until the closure of the newspaper in 2009. He has recently completed a novel, “The Goners,” about the losers on the periphery of Hollywood’s entertainment industry, and is working on “Cinema Penitentiary,” the tale of a lost boy sentenced to half a century in a movie theater. Although much of his working day is spent writing film criticism for the Seattle PostGlobe, he is also looking for paying jobs, as his savings are now depleted.
Freelance journalist Brad Wong has covered U.S. visits by Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Dalai Lama, former Mexican President Vicente Fox, and, in the Pacific, on the U.S. island of Guam, he chronicled how human smugglers and migrants arrived clandestinely by boat from China. His work has shed light on a wide array of subjects: Asian Americans in Seattle, biotechnology companies, trade, the Tsingtao brewery in China and people falling in love at cemeteries. Brad launched TofuWatch.com on May 18, 2009 because, he says, “I like bean curd. It needs to be more central in our lives.” He adds that he also wanted the site to be a vehicle to discuss what he finds captivating in life – architecture, the economy, trade, history, art and migration.
To reach us, please email seattlepostglobe@yahoo.com
You can also follow Seattle PostGlobe via mobile phone by bookmarking this in your browser: http://m.wbx.me/mobile-site-ljohnson27
After the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper stopped publishing and laid off virtually all of its staff, a few of us former P-I journalists -- reporters, photographers, copy editors -- started this site. P-I reporter Kery Murakami pushed the idea along, got it up and running and kept it going for almost a year before leaving for greener pastures (read, "paying job"). But all of us wanted this site to exist because we believe our city needs more journalists not fewer.
We want this to be a community conversation about our city and about the concerns of the people in our city. We will feature stories from journalists, including many who once worked for the P-I. But this city is in the forefront of new journalism, and we intend to feature the best of it.
And we will include citizen journalism. Stories from you, our readers. We want to hear from you. Tell us what you want to read about and what we should be reporting on, and post your stories, photos and videos on our site. Of course, just as we edit traditional journalists work, your posts and photos will be reviewed first. To submit an article, click Post in the top menu.
In the beginning we worked as volunteers. Today, we're still mostly doing this as volunteers. But, thanks to your donations, we've been able to begin paying a little -- but far less than what it will take to get off unemployment. We're going to keep the Seattle PostGlobe running as long as we can. But we're going to need your support, as contributors to our news site and as financial contributors. To be a financial contributor, click
Donate in the top menu.
WHO WE ARE
STAFF:
Sally Deneen, news curator, also contributes environment stories. She has covered such diverse topics as recycling, the world's fast-disappearing endangered plants, global climate change and the nation's shrinking wetlands as a contributing writer for E: The Environmental Magazine. She also has written for such publications as Organic Gardening, US News & World Report and Columbia Journalism Review, and was a contributor to the book "Feeling the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Change" (Routledge, 2004). As a freelance writer, Sally contributed to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Newspapers in Education project, The Zone, in 2007 and 2008. Sally is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Northwest Science Writers Association. You can contact her at SallyDeneen@gmail.com
Larry Johnson, news curator, also is a contributor. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years, most recently as the national/foreign editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper. His award-winning writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers and he has traveled in more than 35 countries, covering Iraq for the PI in 1999, 2002 and 2003. A collection of his work, “Looking for Trouble, Dispatches from the Middle East, Asia and Central and South America,” was published in 2008. He is currently working on a historical novel on the U.S.-Philippines War. You can email him at larryjohnson@larryjohnsononline.com.
News curator and contributor Collin Tong is a freelance journalist and frequent contributor for Crosscut, the International Examiner, and Seattle Post-Globe. He was a stringer for the former Eastside Journal-American in Bellevue and news and features editor for the African Forum News. He was a recipient of the Michele Clark Fellowship from the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education's 1976 Summer Program for Minority Journalists and awards from the Washington Press Association and Fund for Journalism on Jewish Life. Collin has served on the board of the Asian-American Journalists Association and is the former senior director of communications at Washington State University. You can contact him at collin.tong9@gmail.com.
News curator and copy editor Leighton Wingate worked for about 19 years as a copy editor at the Seattle P-I, mostly on the news/business desk, with additional experience editing features and sports content. He also laid out pages and worked as a slotman.
News curator Chris Beringer has been an editor at newspapers in Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle. Her most recent job was assistant managing editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where she oversaw the paper’s consumer initiatives, special sections, photography and design, and coverage of lifestyle and entertainment topics. She is a past president of the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and was voted into the AASFE Features Journalism Hall of Fame in 2009.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Martha Baskin helped found Free Speech Radio News in 1999 when the board of Pacifica, the oldest public radio network in the nation, was intent on selling the network's flagship stations to commercial interests. She was on the team that tried to save the KCMU News Hour in 1995 before the station lost its prime time news hour and was sold to Paul Allen becoming KEXP. Baskin has produced documentaries and features for the National Radio Project's Making Contact on subjects ranging from Guantanamo to MST or Military Sexual Trauma. She's been published in Sojourners Magazine and the now defunct online journal, The New Standard. Once upon a time, she did script analyses for The American Playhouse and theater reviews for NYC's The Villager. And yes, she was an editor of her high school newspaper.
Rebekah Denn, a reporter and food writer, still catches her breath at the sight of Seattle’s skyline at night. In her years as a food writer and restaurant critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, she wrote about every part of the city’s culinary scene, but her previous specialties included everything from education to discrimination to book reviews to the death penalty. The recipient of two James Beard Awards, she is a regular contributor to Sunset magazine, The Seattle Times and The Christian Science Monitor, and frequently writes for other publications.
Cecelia Goodnow has been writing about children's books for two decades, initially as a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Her newspaper career has led her to many topics, including education, politics, lifestyle trends, health and pop culture, but some of her most rewarding stories have been about the world of children's books, whose talented creators too often go unsung.
Regina Hackett is the former art critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I loved that job every day, but it's gone and I've moved on. As they say in the movies, to infinity and beyond. In 1993, she won the Chemical Bank Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism, first place in the contemporary art category. In 1996 and 2005, she won first place for criticism from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. She has an MA in journalism with an emphasis on arts criticism from the University of Oregon and a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley.
John Hickey, Mariners reporter, is a longtime spectator of the Major League Baseball scene and currently is a National Baseball Writer for AOL FanHouse. He's spent the past two decades watching the best (and worst) of West Coast baseball, including the 116-win Seattle team in 2001 and the three consecutive AL championships put together by Oakland from 1988 to 1990. A product of the University of California -- Go Bears! -- he is in his 10th season covering the Seattle Mariners after 15 years of covering the Oakland Athletics.
InvestigateWest is a new model for investigative journalism focused on the Pacific Northwest and the West.We are an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the art and craft of investigative and narrative journalism. InvestigateWest was started by a group of accomplished journalists with a track record of producing investigative stories and, with them, change in public policy and corporate practice. Our mission is to cut across the old media borders to reach and engage audiences by new and powerful means. We harness the synergies of the printed word with the evocative power of photography, video and audio to produce reports used and distributed by a wide variety of news organizations, whether online, print, television or radio. Staff: Rita Hibbard, Executive Director and Editor, Robert McClure, Chief Environmental Correspondent and Carol Smith, Senior Writer.
Paul Nyhan is a dad who made his living for the last 21 years as a working journalist, with long stints at Bloomberg News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper (RIP) and Congressional Quarterly. So far, I have split my career between the two Washingtons, spending half in the nation’s capitol and the other 10 years in Seattle. During those years I covered a lot of territory, reporting on Congress, the Federal Reserve, lobbying, public housing policies and even those derivatives now wreaking havoc with our economy. In Seattle, I wrote about the economy, aerospace, organized labor, disability, taxes, working poverty, family news and the broken economics of child care. My most satisfying beat, though, was my last as a family reporter, since it allowed me to work on my most important job — parent of a five-month-old baby, a daughter in preschool and a son in kindergarten — while still working as a journalist. My newspaper is now closed, but I am still on the beat, writing about early learning for Thrive by Five Washington, and covering family trends and news for various publications.
D. Parvaz was an editorial writer and columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, until March 2009, when the paper shut down. At the P-I, where she worked for a decade, Parvaz wrote about politics, often as seen through the lens of popular culture. Born in Iran, she has lived in Tehran, Dubai, Vancouver (B.C.), Tokyo, Tucson and Seattle, and previously worked at the Asahi Evening News, The Arizona Republic and the Seattle Times. As a Nieman fellow, Parvaz studied constitutional law as well as media and politics. She is currently doing a research project on Iranian media at the University of Cambridge. Parvaz also blogs at Something to Say.
Pop music critic Gene Stout was the pop music critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for more than two decades. He is a Seattle native who graduated in editorial journalism from the University of Washington. His stories have appeared in newspapers around the country through the New York Times and Hearst Corporation news services. His work continues at GeneStout.com, an independent online source for news, previews, reviews, feature stories and silly rumors about local and national music. Occasionally, Gene draws outside the lines of popular music to write about food, wine and lifestyle. "I started this journey when Little Richard knocked me out of the cradle," Gene says. "And I continue to be a sucker for a great musical hook." Over the years, Gene has interviewed hundreds of musicians, from Eddie Vedder and Courtney Love to James Taylor and Quincy Jones. In an interview with Gene, Dick Clark of "American Bandstand" fame said, “If you’re lucky enough to find a line of work that you like, and you don’t watch the clock while you’re doing it, then you don’t mind when Monday rolls around and you’ve got to go back and do it again.” Amen. You can email Gene at gene@genestout.com and you can find him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/popmusiccritic.
Mark Trahant is a writer, teacher and a “Twitter poet.” He is a 2009-2010 Kaiser Media Fellow and will be writing about health care reform with the focus of learning from programs the government already operates, such as the Indian Health Service. As part of his project, he files regular Twitter posts at TrahantReports. He is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where he chaired the daily editorial board, directed a staff of writers, editors and a cartoonist. He has been chairman and chief executive officer at the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. The Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit is the country's premier institute for providing advanced training and services nationally to help news media reflect diversity in content, staffing and business operations. Trahant remains chair of Maynard’s board of directors. He also serves as a trustee of the Diversity Institute, an affiliate of the Freedom Forum. Trahant was a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and 2005. He is a member of Idaho's Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and former president of the Native American Journalists Association.
Seattle native Bill White returned home after 18 years in Boston, where he began as a fruit vendor and ended as a theater director, to become a regular contributor to the Seattle PI’s arts and entertainment section. His writing on film, music, and theater appeared there until the closure of the newspaper in 2009. He has recently completed a novel, “The Goners,” about the losers on the periphery of Hollywood’s entertainment industry, and is working on “Cinema Penitentiary,” the tale of a lost boy sentenced to half a century in a movie theater. Although much of his working day is spent writing film criticism for the Seattle PostGlobe, he is also looking for paying jobs, as his savings are now depleted.
Freelance journalist Brad Wong has covered U.S. visits by Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Dalai Lama, former Mexican President Vicente Fox, and, in the Pacific, on the U.S. island of Guam, he chronicled how human smugglers and migrants arrived clandestinely by boat from China. His work has shed light on a wide array of subjects: Asian Americans in Seattle, biotechnology companies, trade, the Tsingtao brewery in China and people falling in love at cemeteries. Brad launched TofuWatch.com on May 18, 2009 because, he says, “I like bean curd. It needs to be more central in our lives.” He adds that he also wanted the site to be a vehicle to discuss what he finds captivating in life – architecture, the economy, trade, history, art and migration.
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