If you missed On The Media this weekend, don’t miss its “The Inheritance of Loss” segment—in which Brooke Gladstone explores the results of a paper’s closure, overall, on a city. OTM, alas, had several cities to choose among for a profile of a lost paper’s effect…but it wound up profiling Seattle. Gladstone interviews a neighborhood blogger (from the popular West Seattle blog), alt-weekly staffers, online-only reporters (at the remaining, online-only Post-Intelligencer), and the editor of the Seattle Times, the P-I’s old rival, to paint a picture of Seattle’s new media landscape.
Well worth a listen.
For the record, I'm not a "neighborhood blogger." Thirty-year veteran journalist currently practicing my craft, art, vocation, whatever on a website that publishes in blog format and happens to be the #1 news source for the neighborhood in which it publishes. I rue the day we put "blog" in the name -- as it is now a rather meaningless term used far more pejoratively than positively -- but we had no idea when we started three and a half years ago that it would become a news site, let alone a thriving business. Thanks for the mention; it was a pleasure to speak with Ms. Gladstone.
#1 Posted by Tracy in W. Seattle, CJR on Fri 5 Jun 2009 at 06:35 PM