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Seattle journalists keep the flame burning

Joe
Thursday
10:28 am

As someone who left the daily newspaper world behind, I understand the itch to be a journalist can linger for a while.  In Seattle, that itch is being scratched in a unique way.  Seattle PI

Last March, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went under, leaving virtually their entire workforce without a job — and without much prospect for one.  But the hunger was still there, so many of the PI’s reporters, copy editors, photographers and designers started the Seattle PostGlobe, a “conversation” about the city.  “Conversation” is really just a euphemism for an online newspaper, but what’s interesting is that everyone is doing it for free, save what they get from reader donations.  Since they aren’t behooved to any publisher, the style is a bit more casual and the topics might range a bit more.

It’s an interesting little experiment in a major American city that is now down to one daily.  The organizers of the Globe seem to realize the realities that doing free journalism can only last so long in a world of kids and mortgages. But as newspapers all over the place are crashing, perhaps this can be a blueprint for what sort of regrowth can be forged when the need for news is still there but the old template for delivering it is obsolete.

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