Jeong Park
@jeongpark.bsky.social
Assistant Metro Editor at The Seattle Times
Journalists all across the PNW laid off by McClatchy today, a damn bloodbath. Some are people I’ve worked with, some are calling me crying because their mentors no longer have jobs. Journalism is so needed. Cutting investigative reporters, city reporters… Idaho & Washington will be worse off.
Anyhow, I’m just logging on to say we’ve done some great (and fun!) work recently here: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... www.seattletimes.com/sports/marin... www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Wife of WA fisherman who died in Alaska denied entry to U.S. for his funeral
Adriana Gonzalez hopes to attend the funeral, then collect her husband’s ashes and bring them back to the home they shared with their three children in Mexico.
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Today is a good day for some song recommendations if y’all have any
Incredibly proud of the entire Seattle Times newsroom for our tireless, round-the-clock coverage of historic flooding that spanned at least five counties and went on for weeks. I'll have more to say later, but congratulations to all involved -> www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Seattle Times gets a Pulitzer finalist nod for its flood coverage
When a series of atmospheric rivers pummeled communities across the state, dozens of Seattle Times staff fanned out to cover the historic flooding.
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Pablo Torre Finds Out won a Pulitzer for the Kawhi story, I love it
this also reminds me that the blog has a long running connection to myanmar, a real thing you can trace as part of its history
Holly Anderson 🍇@hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5mo agoSo I'm not sure how many people even remember this, but the first proto-Charity Bowl we did on EDSBS, all the way back in 2008, wasn't for refugee resettlement. It was after a bunch of tornadoes tore through Georgia and Oklahoma (there was also a massive cyclone in Myanmar)
Editor and Publisher has a list of “Tomorrow’s News trailblazers” and somehow seven of the people here all come from same place (Pflugerville, Texas) www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/meet...
Meet E&P’s 2026 Tomorrow’s News Trailblazers - Editor and Publisher
In this year’s Tomorrow’s News Trailblazers package, E&P Editor-in-Chief Robin Blinder spotlights a new class of rising media professionals whose ideas, resilience and creativity are helping redefine the future of journalism. Drawn from newsrooms, audience teams, revenue operations and editorial leadership roles across the industry, this year’s honorees reflect the many ways the next generation is already shaping what comes next.
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Something positive in the media world - Washington State University and Report for America have launched a partnership aimed at placing a reporter in every single one of the state's 39 counties: www.reportforamerica.org/2026/02/04/w...
‘A reporter in every county’: WSU, Report for America launch groundbreaking program to confront Washington’s local news crisis - Report for America
February 4, 2026 – Washington State University's Murrow College of Communication and Report for America have launched an ambitious partnership to cover every one of Washington’s counties by 2029, aimi...
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A civic crisis: "The Metro section will be restructured, ensuring a "healthy presence for local subscribers," he said. According to a Metro staffer who was just laid off, there will be about a dozen people left on the desk. That's down from more than 40." -- www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post'
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.
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I thought the LAT layoffs were brutal but WaPo layoffs take the cake
Not for nothing, but it was a Washington Post article about romance fiction that pushed Jacob Tierney to contact Rachel Reid about making #HeatedRivalry.
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8mo agoIn addition to sports, the Washington Post is killing its book section, suspending its Post Reports podcast, restructuring its metro section, and shrinking its international footprint.
sports coverage is not about box scores anymore. it's about power and politics and corruption and sovereign wealth and real estate and the use of taxpayer money and the most publicized labor disputes in the country and yes, sometimes about ball go in hoop
Natalie Korach@nataliekorach.bsky.social · 8mo agoWaPo's Matt Murray told staff the paper is shuttering sports, moving remaining staff to features, shrinking foreign coverage, restructuring metro, closing books coverage, suspending Post Reports podcast “Whole company now waiting for a live or die email” one staffer said More in tonight’s Status
Federal immigration agents detained a man in Shoreline, leaving his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes. Here's what the activists saw: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
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Finding it incredibly depressing that we have to beg the world’s fourth richest person to spare up some change to save the sports and foreign desk at the nation’s second/third biggest paper
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
The StarTribune live blog is paywall free: - The man shot by federal agents this morning has died - Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. - ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...
Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee detained at Los Angeles International Airport
San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee was detained Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport, his agent Scott Boras told the Chronicle.
sfchronicle.com
Local authorities have cordoned off a parking lot here at Adventist Health in Portland, right by where federal agents with U.S Customs and Border Protection reportedly shot and injured two people Thursday afternoon. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
