Seattle PostGlobe
Posted by jessdrkn on June 2, 2009
Location: Seattle
Focus: News and information in Seattle, politics, local happenings, sports, food, arts, DIY (reader submitted) calendar listings
Started: 2009
Writers: PostGlobe is a collaboration of more than a dozen reporters and photographers laid off from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer when that daily paper downsized its staff by 80 percent and went online-only in March 2009; Kery Murikami is head of the group
From About Us page:
After the Seattle P-I stopped publishing and laid off virtually all of its staff, a few of us former P-I journalists — reporters, photographers, copy editors — started this site.
We did this because we believe our city needs more journalists not fewer.
In the beginning we did this as volunteers. We’re still mostly doing this as volunteers. Thanks to your donations, we’ve been able to begin paying a little — but far less than what it will take to get off unemployment.
We’re going to keep doing this as long as we can. But we’re going to need your support.
Funding: donations, advertising
Site: seattlepostglobe.org
Here’s an appeal for funding, from a post by Mr. Murikami on June 1, 2009:
Here we are for another week. We hope you like the look of the new site and some of the stories we’re doing on issues that are not being reported anyplace else.
Today we have a look at Summit K-12, a victim of Seattle Public Schools’ budget cuts. We also have the first of a two-part Q&A with Mayor Greg Nickels.
If you appreciate our efforts to try to add to the amount of journalism in town, please donate so we can keep going. Our goal is to find 1,000 people willing to donate $10-a-month in the next couple of weeks.
Sample stories: “Seattle lawyer restores Michael Pollan book to WSU reading list”; From city council blog coverage: “City council candidates David Bloom and Sally Bagshaw are ready for primetime”; ”Downtown bus terminal to stay open later”; PostGlobe film critic reviews “Up” and “Summer Hours”
