Category: Journalism
Seattle Times New Paywall or Mobile Bug?
The Seattle Times has had this bad iOS Safari bug for the past month or so. It reproduces always for me on Mobile Safari and Firefox Focus. To reproduce it, just visit their home page (or any story) on your...
The Tax Cut is One of the Great Deceits of All Time – Bob Woodward
I’m not a huge fan of the modern day Bob Woodward but I appreciated this gem from Real Time last week. “We let important stories go by, like the tax cut. The tax cut is one of the great deceits...
The State of Journalism … Advertising
After visits like this, I’m not sure visitors would ever want to return again:
Kate Elias: Northwest Freelance Editor
I want to give a shout out and positive recommendation to the freelance editor who has edited and helped me polish a lot of my popular essays from the past year or so, Kate Elias / Resume / Editorial Guild Listing. Kate’s...
Amazon Misleads the Associated Press About Seattle’s Affordable Housing
[dropcap2]E[/dropcap2]arly in July, Amazon PR told the Associated Press (AP) that it had “given the city [of Seattle] tens of millions of dollars for affordable housing” for a story that appeared on more than 300 news sites including The New York...
Two People that Made Me a Better Writer
If you liked this week’s “‘Amageddon’: How Amazon’s culture is taking a toll on Seattle’s future,” there are two people that you may wish to follow, unfortunately, one has passed on and you can only read some of her earlier material....
An Alternative for Writing for Free: My Response to Tim Kreider’s Slaves of the Internet Unite!
I can relate to Tim Kreider’s New York Times column on writing for free (Slaves of the Internet, Unite!) I’ve been paid for my writing on occasion but more often, I write for free by necessity. In full disclosure, as...