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The Seattle Times: News Partner Network

The Seattle Times forges partnerships with community sites to provide readers comprehensive coverage enriched with local flavor.

Seattle: An Information Community Case Study by the New America Foundation

This comprehensive write up offers an inventory of demographics, emerging channels, new players in the field, the evolution of long time media brands, and implications for the future. Chock full of information rich with context and chronology of flashpoints, this case study explores the unique characteristics that have contributed to Seattle’s flourishing media landscape.

Seattlest

Seattlest was launched in January 2005 as a local blog of local happenings. It is part of network of similar sites in major cities, including New York and London.

Puget SoundOff

Puget SoundOff is an online space “created by and for youth” to encourage young people to be involved in their communities.  The site appeals to youth with a call to action: “It starts with one voice speaking out on an issue, then finding others to collaborate with and taking action. You can be that voice....

Patch.com

AOL’s Patch network of local news sites was operating in 14 Washington State communities roughly along the I-5 corridor from Tacoma to Everett, as of February 2011. Its first site was launched October 10, 2010, in University Park. Its Seattle regional editor is Mike Lewis, formerly with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

MyNorthwest.com

The news on MyNorthwest.com is mostly from the Associated Press. The blogs are from three Bonneville broadcast outlets – News Talk 97.3 KIRO FM, 770 KTTH The Truth talk radio, and 710 ESPN Seattle.

Living Voters Guide

A “citizen powered” voters guide; a “public square” for discussing ballot measures. Easy to contribute, to see what others think, and to get alerts about new information as the election evolves.

InvestigateWest

InvestigateWest says it “rose from the ashes of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer” but prides itself on not being “limited by those roots.” Founded in July 2009, it is a nonprofit organization dedicated to investigative and narrative journalism whose mission statement says, in part: The old model for supporting and conducting public service journalism has collapsed. Thousands of traditional...

HistoryLink.org

Founded in 1998, HistoryLink calls itself the “free online encyclopedia of Washington State History” and says it is “the first and largest encyclopedia of community history created expressly for the Internet.” With more than 5,550 original, sourced essays as of March 2010, it is an incredible public resource. The nonprofit site says it serves an...
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