Tag: crime
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Election night
Yesterday, The Seattle Times was humming with even more purpose and productivity than usual. Reporters argued over fractions of percentages. Editors posted dozens of news updates every hour until midnight. Fifteen boxes of pizza vanished in an hour. That’s right, it was election day–only the most simultaneously stressful and exciting day of the year for the
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The nighttime police scanner: a hypothetical ethical dilemma
Today I pulled the night shift at The Seattle Times. On days when exciting things aren’t happening nonstop, it’s common for the reporter on the night shift to find him- or herself stationed next to the police scanner, listening for anything big. That’s me tonight. It sounds boring, or perhaps to some it sounds depressing,
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Hard news, soft news–it’s all good
This job is the first one in which I’ve truly been a general assignment reporter. Before that, I always had a certain beat. At the Santa Cruz Sentinel, my first internship and my first time working in a newsroom, I was supposed to cover everything but ended up mostly writing feature stories. At the Oregon
Jill Kimball 