What’s on the plate for AAJA Seattle
By Lauren Rabaino Members of the old board and freshly-elected AAJA Seattle board met at a retreat last week to hand off ideas and kick off the new year. Thanks to all the board members for coming, and to Sharon Chan for hosting the event in her condo building. Here are some raw notes from […]
Good news for freelancers: Public Insight Network is acquiring Spot.us
By Lauren Rabaino If you’re a freelancer and you haven’t heard of Spot.us yet, you’ve been missing out. (Full disclosure: I worked as a contract designer for Spot.us from Dec. 2009 – Jan 2011). Spot.us is a crowd-funded reporting platform that allows reporters and organizations to submit story ideas, set a funding goal, and raise […]
The Holiday Scoop journo party will be free!
Update Dec. 7: The City of Seattle has decided to enforce an admission-fee policy against us, requiring us to pay taxes on this nonprofit scholarship fundraiser. So, instead of giving the city a cut of the Northwest Journalists of Color scholarships, we are opening the party to all invitees for free. Donations are welcome online […]
Meet Sunny Wu, editor and ex-lifeguard
Editor’s note: This is part of a new, bi-weekly series, where Sarah will be profiling one of our AAJA members Name: Sunny Wu Hometown: A native-born Seattleite. Education: Political science degree from University of Washington. Work: Projects editor, MSN (starting in December). Formerly: Editor at FOX Sports, ESPN, AOL and msnbc.com. Lifeguard in high school. […]
Defending press freedom for student journalists at WWU
By Gina Cole To use a metaphor that sports writers may jibe me for: some of my peers at Western Washington University seem to view college not as the season opener to adult life, but as merely a scrimmage. “Sure, we’re doing the same things, but they don’t affect our record right now.†It sounds […]
What’s in Your Backpack, Journalist?
If you’ve been looking for your next journalism position then you know your journey has probably been painfully bumpy against the backdrop of the lingering recession, newsroom cut backs, leaner paychecks, scarcity of jobs and scores of unemployed journalists eager to get back to another newsroom. Many others have even jumped the journalism ship in […]