Tag: reporting
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Snowmageddon
“You tell people they might see snowflakes out their windows tomorrow morning and then nothing happens…but you give no forecast at all and then I-5 is a skating rink.” Ah, the weather reporting catch-22–as neatly summed up by a Seattle Times editor. Today all the editors (I sat meekly in a corner and took notes)
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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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A family tradition
Seattle Times executive editor David Boardman told us interns some great stories as he led us on a tour of the city last month. One of them concerned Frank Blethen, the paper’s publisher. Years ago, a reporter investigated a few claims of unfair hiring practices at Nordstrom. The reporter found out the department store, founded
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Storytelling
As if it isn’t cool enough that I’m actually getting paid to work at the Seattle Times for the summer, I also get daily sage advice from the best in the business, advice I’m sure I’ll remember throughout my journalistic career. Aside from the small gems I get from editors daily (I call them “gems,”
Jill Kimball 