Posts Tagged ‘seattle’

Longtime Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur announced that she is going to the paper’s NW Arts & Life section, where she will have a weekly Sunday conversation with a local who is doing something great. She’ll spotlight authors, singers, musicians, politicos, leaders, and more. She is calling the column “Nicole & Co.” On Tuesdays she [...]

Old news by about a month. But for the sake of making sure you all know about it, Michele Matassa Flores is now the Managing Editor of the publication. She can be found on Twitter at @MicheleMF.

KIRO TV recently announced that it is expanding its 11 pm newscast to a full hour making it the first station in the Seattle market to air a 60-minute broadcast in that hour.

Seattle journalist Al Scott has left the Puget Sound Business Journal for Reuters. Al recently appeared on KUOW’s Weekday program which confirms the move here: Weekday Website. Al is now the financial industry editor at Reuters. He’s the former managing editor of the PSBJ. He was a business projects reporter at The Seattle times prior [...]

On January 3, 2012, oldies KVI 570 AM will once again become a talk radio station under its new ‘smart talk’ format. The station’s new tag line will be Smart Talk for a Sound Life, featuring lifestyle, health, local and entertainment news. At the start of 2011, station management flipped the station from a conservative [...]

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 [...]

Gordon Prouty, the advertising director of the San Francisco Business Times has been named publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal. He starts in Seattle on July 5, 2011. Prouty replaces PSBJ publisher Emory Thomas, who was recently named chief content officer of the entire Business Journal network. For more info on Prouty visit the [...]

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 [...]

Seattle’s alternative radio station KEXP will move to the Seattle Center campus, according to the SeattlePI. Yesterday, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved a lease for a planned Dale Chihuly glass art museum and garden at the former Fun Forest amusement center at Seattle Center. As part of the approval, they gave the nod to [...]

For the last 40 years, the Radio Television Digital News Association has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards. According to RTDNA’s website, Murrow’s pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name. Murrow Award recipients must demonstrate the spirit of excellence that [...]