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THE WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER Vol. 97, No. 4 April 2012
Journal of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association and Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington • www.wnpa.com
WNPA’s Bureau connects readers with Legislature By Frank W. Garred
Coordinating Editor WNPA Olympia News Bureau
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hree reporters crammed into alcoves at TVW’s Olympia studios managed to cover the 2012 legislative scene for more than 100 WNPA member newspapers. Somewhat as a tribute to the memory of Shelton’s iconoclastic
From left, Scott Panitz, Gov. Chris Gregoire, Maida Suljevic and Raechel Dawson were photographed after dinner at the Governor’s Mansion on March 1 during the 2012 Legislative Day activities co-sponsored by Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington and Washington Newspaper Publishers Association.
satirist — and cynic — Henry Gay, the Marble Zoo (as he labeled the capital campus) earned more press exposure this winter than during many previous sessions as a result of WNPA’s commitment to staffing and funding its own news bureau. Henry would have been proud. So are most of us associated
Jana Stoner/ Northern Kittitas County Tribune, Cle Elum
See bureau, page 8
ONE HOT SHOT
Sound makes management changes at three papers
Fourth announces new packaging for Sumner news
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Kimberly Jacobson/Anacortes American
New York Press Association judges analyzed Kimberly Jacobson’s Anacortes American image, titled “AHS Lip Dub,” noting the foreground provides the setting, the mid-foreground the action and reaction, the background the light (note the shadows on the wall). With lots of names and faces, it’s a classic community newspaper photograph, they said, and awarded it first place in the Color Feature Category, Circulation Group II, of the 2011 Washington Better Newspaper Contest.
Seattle acts to save P-I’s iconic globe City council leads coalition to keep monument in town The Seattle Times
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer globe as it appeared just before the P-I went online-only in March 2009.
ne of Seattle’s beloved landmarks — the steel and neon Seattle PostIntelligencer globe — was nominated for city landmark status last month, likely ensuring that it is protected into the future, whatever the fate of newspapers. Seattle City Council members joined the director of the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) in announcing an agreement with the Hearst Corp., which owns the globe, to keep it spinning in Seattle at a location
the public will help select. MOHAI is making plans to refurbish the 13½-ton globe and to find a new permanent location. It will be taken to a temporary storage site — possibly a former airplane hangar at Magnuson Park— for cleaning and maintenance, likely sometime later this year. “We are honored to become the steward of this cherished symbol of Seattle’s journalism and our local history,” said Leonard Garfield, executive director of the museum. Garfield said the museum is launching a campaign, “Light Up The Globe,” to raise money to restore and relocate the icon. He estimated the costs at about $400,000, including removing it from its current
location atop an office building on the northern end of the downtown Seattle waterfront. The impetus to have the globe designated a city landmark was launched shortly after the print edition of the P-I folded in March 2009. Although Hearst continues to operate the news site seattlepi.com, it moved most of its remaining news operations to another building last year. Three former journalists on the City Council, Jean Godden, Tim Burgess and Sally Clark, worried about the globe’s fate. At a news conference in City Hall March 6, the three announced they would present their nomination to the city Landmark Preservation Board See GLOBE, page 10
ound Publishing announced new leadership at three newspapers last quarter and a change in publication frequency at a fourth newspaper. At the Bainbridge Island Review, Donna Etchey was named publisher in late February. She continues as publisher of Kingston Community News and the North Kitsap Herald in Poulsbo. Etchey succeeds Chris Allen Hoch, whose 23 years with the newspaper included serving as publisher since the mid-90s. Under Hoch’s leadership, the Review won seven General Excellence awards in the Washington Better Newspaper Contest. “Chris has been an asset to Sound Publishing and to the Bainbridge Island community for many years and we will certainly miss her,” said Lori Maxim, vice president of West Sound Operations. Brian Kelly, for seven years editor of the South Whidbey Record in Langley, assumed the editor’s role at the Review in March. Kelly’s successor at the Record is Jim Larsen. Larsen had been Record editor for 20 years before moving in 2001 to serve as editor of the Whidbey News-Times in Oak Harbor. For the past two years he has been supervising editor of the Record and the Times, and will continue in that role. Both newspapers are produced from an office in Coupeville. At the Port Orchard Independent, Sean See SOUND, page 8