Posts Tagged ‘Seattle News’

Mark Wright, now Lily Jang. Lily announced yesterday evening that she is leaving the TV station after 11 years in Seattle. Here is her Facebook post: “After 11 wonderful years in Seattle…I’m leaving Q13 and moving home to Houston. My immigrant parents worked their entire lives for my brother and me and gave us our [...]

Over the last year, Patch has made its mark in the Puget Sound region. In simple terms, Patch is a new way to find out about, and participate in, what’s going on near you. It is a community news site run by locals in your town. Patch’s website says they are a community-specific news and [...]

I was just reading Facebook when I came across Mark Wright’s Facebook page. This is what it said: “Today was my first day on the job at KING 5 (I start anchoring next Monday). What a fun day it was! On my way home tonight, “Welcome to the Home Team” was still ringing in my [...]

10+ year Seattle radio news reporter and anchor Heather Bosch has left Seattle for New York. She begins working at CBS radio as a NY-based correspondent starting on May 2. Bosch just won three RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Awards for overall excellence, audio news series, and audio newscast while working at KIRO radio news (97.3 [...]

Bob Rivers, a Seattle radio veteran who was with KZOK FM for years, has a new gig on KJR FM (aka Oldies 95.7 FM). He started working there on April 1. His new show airs weekdays from 5 am to 10 am. He is joined by his former KZOK FM morning show partners Spike O’Neill [...]

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For the last two years or so, I have kept an eye on the growing hyperlocal blogs and news sites in the Puget Sound region, including the I5 corridor from Tacoma to Everett (See right side of this homepage). Spot.Us is the latest of news sites to enter the Seattle market. This site offers what [...]

Hearst stopped printing the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in March. The company let go a majority of its staffers at the newspaper but kept about 20 or so writers and support crew. That team has been responsible for writing content for SeattlePI.com. While the look and feel of the site has not changed much, the online news [...]

SeattlePI.com looks for community bloggers

- Local Health Guide Online (Seattle) – Seattle Times – Pacific NW Local News – Seattle Swine Flu Twitter Feed – Seattle PI – KING 5 (NBC) TV – KCPQ (Q13 FOX) TV – KOMO (ABC 4) TV – KIRO (CBS) TV – MyNorthwest – Public Health of Seattle and King County – State Department [...]