Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & the City
at Night

« O They Will Know We Are Christians.… | The Last Titanic »

Sunday, May 31, 2009

City / Media The Inheritance Of Loss

Posted by Eli Sanders on Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:54 PM

This weekend NPR's On the Media is taking a look at media life in Seattle just over two months after the death of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Tune in and you can listen to me spouting some nonsense about feathers in online caps (oh, lack of sleep), as well as hear Tracy Record of the WestSeattleBlog on the growing neighborhood news movement; former P-I staffer and current SeattlePI.com news gatherer Scott Gutierrez on the limits and potential of working for a "much leaner" start-up; and Seattle Times executive editor David Boardman on why he believes his paper is "the center, and will remain the center, of the news and information ecosystem."

The show airs at 6 p.m. here in Seattle on KUOW (94.9 FM), or you can listen to it now online right here.

Photo by anonymous, of former P-I staffers saying goodbye to their paper's globe in early March.

Comments (13) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

Oh boy! Eli on the radio! Anybody else gonna skip this?!

Posted by Mr. Poe on May 31, 2009 at 1:33 PM

Look well upon the road you will soon travel, Stranger employees.

Posted by Lulz on May 31, 2009 at 1:50 PM

A Jew on NPR? No way!!

How extremely rare!

Posted by Jew + NPR = redundant on May 31, 2009 at 2:00 PM

The center cannot hold.

Posted by Will I Am, But You Are, What You Eats on May 31, 2009 at 2:19 PM

On the Media is great. That's all.

Posted by Ryan in the sky on May 31, 2009 at 2:26 PM

I wish we would stop talking about the Seattle P-I as "dead". They're still alive as an online newspaper, which is probably how most newspapers will eventually end up. There are now several generations who look upon reading news on large awkward pieces of low quality paper as more of a hinderance than a source for nostalgia.

Posted by josh

on May 31, 2009 at 2:54 PM

Endless Air.

Posted by DOUG.

on May 31, 2009 at 4:46 PM

@6: The P-I isn't dead because it's online only. It's dead because it has just a handful of reporters and little presence in the community.

Posted by realjournalist on May 31, 2009 at 6:29 PM

Ditto. The on-line pi is a sad shell of its former self. And the quality of the reporting and editing in Fairview Fanny has declined noticeably. Fuck You, Frank Blethen.

Posted by Dr_Awesome on May 31, 2009 at 8:23 PM

Yeah! It's all Frank's fault! Fuck the man, man!

Posted by Mr. Poe on June 1, 2009 at 12:22 AM

The "growing neighborhood news movement" is a fuckng joke. It has taken off in popularity because all of the Millenials get to feel good about themselves and show everyone how clever they are, so they can all sit around patting each other on the back for being so non-mainstream. The sad fact is that most (not all) of these new media outlets are either a.) filled with crap; or b.) links to work that was done by actual news gathering organizations.

Posted by Good Grief on June 1, 2009 at 10:25 AM

Hey, Good Grief, FWIW my husband and I ain't no millennials. He's past 50 and I'm almost there. And even if you count us in the "not all" section I will speak in defense of my fellow neighborhood-news operators around here and in many cities around the country: They too are out here covering stories that weren't covered before. Not by neighborhood newspapers, not by big newspapers, and most certainly not by my old colleagues in the tv business. Yup, there are a few links back to what the old media's doing. And you know what - the old media is currently linking to many of us too.

Posted by TR from WSB on June 3, 2009 at 7:47 PM