tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.comments2023-12-31T14:10:00.406-08:00Safety NetRuth Teichroebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02513440737354621888noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-89738588482026672272023-12-31T14:10:00.406-08:002023-12-31T14:10:00.406-08:00Nice shaareNice shaareZee Ice Coldhttps://zeeicecold.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-64463372892226066532022-08-28T06:24:08.373-07:002022-08-28T06:24:08.373-07:00Thank you for writing thiisThank you for writing thiisElizabeth Paving Contractorshttps://www.professionaldriveway.com/us/new-jersey-driveways/elizabeth-paving-contractors.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-48954055362038317652022-01-30T06:30:24.033-08:002022-01-30T06:30:24.033-08:00I enjoyed rreading thisI enjoyed rreading thisRosemary Qhttps://www.rosemaryquinn.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-8303765358188213002014-08-05T03:49:37.026-07:002014-08-05T03:49:37.026-07:00hi,
Get Excellent, High Quality and Affordable Web...hi,<br />Get Excellent, High Quality and Affordable Website Designs from Orange Media Studio :- More <a href="http://www.orangemediastudio.com" rel="nofollow">orange media</a> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-83444037039081457772011-05-02T17:14:05.784-07:002011-05-02T17:14:05.784-07:00I'm convinced that there's little security...I'm convinced that there's little security in media/communications jobs. Recent hard times have shown that they'll always be the first on the chopping block. And many of those jobs, as evidenced by my own job search the last few months, involve little in the way of traditional journalism values — a lot of jobs with "editor" or "writer" in the title wants "aggregators" of "content" targeted toward corporate clients, and require a lot of heavy flash/HTML/coding/video skills. I understand that's the reality, and yet, for anybody who hails from a shoe-leather, truth-to-power background, it's a pretty sad damn reality. <br /><br />All that, and really ... there aren't any jobs. <br /><br />After being laid off in January as the news editor of the Kitsap Sun in Bremerton, I'm staying open to working for someone else but have been sinking most of my energy into entrepreneurial efforts. Hard times have shown me that nobody but me will really look after me. I'm off to a slow start as a freelance editor/proofer of book manuscripts, but the volume of work coming my way is growing. <br /><br />I'm enjoying myself, and enjoying having the coffee shops up and down Puget Sound as my office. But I am happy for those — and this blog shows there are more than I would have guessed — who have managed to find a fresh toehold in the truth-to-power industry. <br /><br />Jim ThomsenJim Thomsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16436505068478971925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-48869760963745324612011-01-05T10:00:56.245-08:002011-01-05T10:00:56.245-08:00I'm wondering if you're putting the non-pr...I'm wondering if you're putting the non-profit communications people in the right category. As anonymous (at JANUARY 4, 2011 5:40 PM) said:<br /><br />"t at a really interesting place doing work that in many ways was similar to what I did before."<br /><br />Both Jennifer Langston and Lisa Stiffler are the lead staff at the Sightline Institute on their Daily Score blog: http://daily.sightline.org/about/who-works-on-sightline-daily<br /><br />While Sightline is a non-profit organization, what Lisa and Jennifer are doing now is practically the same thing they did at the PI, reporting and writing about environmental issues for a local audience.Emmett O'Connellhttp://olywa.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-4993763397122617702011-01-05T04:02:06.082-08:002011-01-05T04:02:06.082-08:00Your readers miss you too, and we wonder how you a...Your readers miss you too, and we wonder how you are doing. It is shameful that Seattle is a one-newspasper town. Just finished Bob Greene's book about the decline and fall of the American newspaper "LATE EDITION, a Love Story". He describe the situation with the papers, but I cannot describe how I yearn for the crackle of the PI's sheets in the morning and its staff of talented journalists. Good luck to us all!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-81977373730641240042011-01-04T17:40:10.068-08:002011-01-04T17:40:10.068-08:00I'm actually a former Seattle Times employee, ...I'm actually a former Seattle Times employee, disrupted when they sold their Maine properties. I'm in a non-profit/communications role but at a really interesting place doing work that in many ways was similar to what I did before. And, I don't work weekends, have better benefits and a much brighter future. Much. All I'd say to newspaper folks is not to hold on so tight. Was it special? Yes. Is it now? Not so much, from what I'm reading. Is there life after print -- if YOU are willing to change and adapt? Yes, a very good life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-9800524511423361322011-01-04T15:04:09.308-08:002011-01-04T15:04:09.308-08:00sucks about the PI. I always thought it was a bett...sucks about the PI. I always thought it was a better paper than the Times. I still check the new PI website before the Times site for local news.MGDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13454725335348427146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-82237090607646971252011-01-04T14:38:44.085-08:002011-01-04T14:38:44.085-08:00I worry about a world that will not have a printed...I worry about a world that will not have a printed press to keep a watch on the local, regional and national politics of our nation. Soundbites on television are not going to cover a story with as much depth as an article or in an investigative series of articles. For all the speed of the internet and television, there are times when there is no electricity or no "signal". How will we be alerted to breaking news? Word of mouth? Over the back fence? Blackberry? How accurate will that information be traveling through multiple sources before it comes to you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-65532944148794702011-01-04T12:39:07.835-08:002011-01-04T12:39:07.835-08:00One of my first jobs was as a reporter with the P-...One of my first jobs was as a reporter with the P-I. I was a new j-school graduate from the Univ of Oregon, so I have many fond memories of nearly a year of interning under the globe on the Bay. Thank you for caring and doing such a great job following these folks and telling their stories. Best to you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-72625755636848351642011-01-04T12:36:18.462-08:002011-01-04T12:36:18.462-08:00The passage of time still does not change the fact...The passage of time still does not change the fact that the P-I's former staffers (and a very few civilians, like me) are the only ones who cared when the print edition closed. I remain gobsmacked at how many times people asked me, "what's the difference (between the Times and the P-I)?" I read, I think on The Stranger's Web site, of someone asking what that big globe on top of the building near the waterfront is. I wonder how many people call the Web site "Seattle-Pie dot com."<br /><br />But on more than one occasion, P-I business columnist Bill Virgin took the newspaper business to task for doing everything possible to alienate potential readers, especially young people. Dude was right on target.<br /><br />I wonder if I'm the only one who remembers Watergate. Especially the part where the Right engaged in a generation-long plan to turn Americans against the news media. Mission Accomplished, folks...Orinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16135309284838958912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-87842553098440609532011-01-04T11:58:20.771-08:002011-01-04T11:58:20.771-08:00Hearst did a masterful job handling the PR side of...Hearst did a masterful job handling the PR side of laying off nearly all of its P-I staff and retaining the rest at less pay and benefits. Hearst shifting the focus to the P-I's great history and away from the damage it was doing to people's careers and lives.<br /><br />Not sure what to call today's P-I -- it's an aggregator with a skeletal and lots and lots of starlets to view so the click count is high. Today's P-I is almost identical to the web products of other harvest-mode entities of the Hearst empire.<br /><br />So what Seattle has with the P-I is a creature of marginal value, hardly providing much original content. With all the vast resources of the Hearst Corporation, it's all just a shame that the online only entity, stripped of the cost of trucks, paper and delivery trucks, hardly bothers to do much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-35825465808600560012011-01-04T11:11:36.273-08:002011-01-04T11:11:36.273-08:00Stopped at Louisa's at Eastlake just yesterday...Stopped at Louisa's at Eastlake just yesterday for a coffee and commented to my partner (also an unemployed journalist) how much I miss seeing the P-I in the newsbox next to The Times.<br />Jacqui Banaszynski<br />Formerly Seattle TimesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-59775935254049583832011-01-04T09:20:51.103-08:002011-01-04T09:20:51.103-08:00Ruth:
Good work. A tragedy continues. Marsha'...Ruth:<br />Good work. A tragedy continues. Marsha's and Grant's stories are just examples. I sorrow for all and I wonder about the individuals for it is the individual who counts. Do you have a list of responders?<br />Gil Bailey<br />Port TownsendAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-3427995416946709702010-07-28T03:05:06.611-07:002010-07-28T03:05:06.611-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Janak India - Surveying Instrumenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04006256327240378621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-60706784518299057142010-07-27T02:31:13.478-07:002010-07-27T02:31:13.478-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.reenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05122134264122181057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-70880471562275824842010-06-03T15:12:33.151-07:002010-06-03T15:12:33.151-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-82936742934019045912010-06-03T15:11:56.210-07:002010-06-03T15:11:56.210-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-79308231879855692862010-04-14T00:22:33.209-07:002010-04-14T00:22:33.209-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02177712721406997899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-88667114188923737452010-03-18T18:29:48.883-07:002010-03-18T18:29:48.883-07:00My thoughts exactly, Chris! Thank you Ruth. I reme...My thoughts exactly, Chris! Thank you Ruth. I remember we spent more time together at the bar that night than we had ever talking at the PI, and that it felt strange I was just then getting to know you, a tiny bit, on that end day. It seemed so unreal. I'm glad you found good work, Ruth.<br />~ WendyWendy Wahmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757907919072633091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-78499021985759954952010-03-17T15:37:25.357-07:002010-03-17T15:37:25.357-07:00Thanks for this, Ruth.Thanks for this, Ruth.Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05743721600178595300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-20087594863778680292010-03-16T12:40:58.611-07:002010-03-16T12:40:58.611-07:00Well stated. Over the past year local media have a...Well stated. Over the past year local media have attempted to fill the void left by the closure of the Post-Intelligencer, but there are many stories left unwritten. And, these are the stories that P-I would told the best. The P-I would have done a better job of covering the employment downturn -- from a business and economic perspective as well as from the human side. The paper would have asked harder questions about the state and city budgets. Arts coverage in the region, except for the blogs, seems to be have been abandoned. In the long run, someone will write these stories in some form of media. Hopefully sooner rather than later. <br />lyttonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-55311190616132546312010-03-16T09:20:50.932-07:002010-03-16T09:20:50.932-07:00Of all the words spewed out about out closing, thi...Of all the words spewed out about out closing, this best reflects my feeling about what we went through, and what our profession is experiencing. Thanks, Ruth, for expressing it so well. <br />Chris BeringerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045960432461130655.post-49028882767373340472010-02-22T22:37:51.294-08:002010-02-22T22:37:51.294-08:00Good point. It's fine if you've tried to a...Good point. It's fine if you've tried to address the issue and gotten nowhere, but the Web should *not* be the first resort.Benjamin Lukoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17027529534385493129noreply@blogger.com