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Kent Kammerer
Let's get a little better acquainted. We will know more about you, what you like about Crosscut (and dislike), and what you most want to read, if you take just a few minutes to complete an online readership survey. Just click here to go to the survey, which is being done for us by the respected GMA Research firm.
As an incentive for taking the survey, we will have daily drawings for free tickets to Seattle Arts & Lectures events, and restaurant premiums. I hope you'll take the survey and enter to win some nice nights out.
I'm sure you understand how valuable these surveys are, and I invite you to be candid. This is the third such survey we have taken, so the information helps us know more about our readers and what the trends are in readership usage and loyalty. It's critical information to help guide our coverage and new features; and it is important information for underwriters and donors.
As for letting you know us better, here's some recent staff news. Crosscut has hired a new executive director, Terri Hiroshima, who will oversee the business, revenue, and publishing sides of Crosscut Public Media. Terri has deep experience in Seattle arts and nonprofit organizations, notably by holding leadership positions with One Reel, Seattle Theatre Group, Empty Space, and others. Berit Anderson has joined the editorial staff as an assistant editor, coming to Crosscut from KCPQ-TV, Yes! Magazine, and several web-oriented institutions. Michele Matassa Flores, our ace managing editor, has left the company to pursue writing and other opportunities: Special thanks to her for a job very well done. We welcome three new editorial assistants: Pete Jackson, who oversees the daily aggregation service "The Clicker"; Erik Neumann, who is working on the community-activation project directed by Deputy Editor Joe Copeland; and Jessica Alberg, our summer intern.
Crosscut has new offices (and as of today, new furniture donated by Pop Media). We are now in Pioneer Square, in the handsome old Globe Building, the former home of Elliott Bay Book Co. Pioneer Square is a happening place once again, particularly in this building with our nonprofit neighbors such as Seattle Parks Foundation, the Alliance for Pioneer Square, and Seattle Arts & Lectures. We're glad to be here and glad to do our bit to boost the historic birthplace of big ole Seattle. We recently held our third Membership Party down in the Square, this one coinciding with a lively First Thursday Arts Walk and attended by several of the new faces in the Seattle arts scene.
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Comments:
Posted Mon, Jul 18, 10:28 a.m. Inappropriate
Sent it in. No need to send me theatre tickets or anything.
Good luck!
Posted Mon, Jul 18, 12:51 p.m. Inappropriate
I'll take Jon's theatre tickets, or whatever else you might be looking to give away. ; )
Posted Tue, Jul 19, 11:06 a.m. Inappropriate
I'm looking for the survey info here on the website. Are there specific questions,or do you just want comments?
Ah, I see there's a place to click in David's story.
Charlton Price
Posted Tue, Jul 19, 2:22 p.m. Inappropriate
No need to take survey - same advice I've given before ......
Hire at least ONE ! person who can provide an alternative voice to the Metro status quo ! ALL the local media essentially speak with one voice. They only compete on the basis of who can go further into Goofball Land.
Here are a very few ideas of what views might be reflected if you were not all in some kind of bizarre media lockstep .....
We would get to read an interview of Junket Jim McDermott regarding the procurement and dissemination of private phone conversations, and their value to getting the news out to the public (one has to assume here that you actually have an interviewer who will not shrink from confronting this well known political bully).
While you are at it, you could print a piece about Junket Jim's retirement assets. By my count he has approximately 5 (five) dips he is, or can, take from the public or quasi-public slop bucket. Not to say they are illegal, just that he is a poster-boy for the WA. State Tammany Hall patronage and largess distribution system.
Let's have a real live investigative piece on Mr Master Mayor's reputation prior to his installation as Head Emperor and Master Mayor. It would be fun for your readers to read about the real (behind the scenes) reputation and not the puff pieces generated from his fawning minions.
Let's see some other pieces on which Seattle, King County, and WA State Demos recieve the most campaign funding from "toxic" donors. So ..... your Capable ! reporter would reveal to us how funds from oil companies (for instance) are delivered by companies using oil products like road construction firms. They in turn, hire engineering (and other professional)firms who might "recommend" the use of asphalt instead of concrete. Once you weave in the various related UNIONs and the donation shifting between Demo office holders, you end up with a fascinating piece of journalism. It is hard for me to imagine how much news you guys just "overlook" in your zeal to just keep the patronage alive. By the way, don't just focu on oil companies, go after some of the other toxics our poor citizens struggle against every day.
Got to go ... this is probably too long to post.
Jamesa
Posted Tue, Jul 19, 2:25 p.m. Inappropriate
PS.
sorry for the obvious mis-spells. I was trying to talk on the phone and write at the same time.
receive
focus
etc.
J.
Posted Wed, Jul 20, 1:38 a.m. Inappropriate
I just watched "The Patriot".
In the end it came to mind, if the press is no longer with the people. If they no longer have the stomach to stand up and defend us, in word, against those who will use us as cattle, serfs, the meager fodder of high class dreams, .... what are they but the trumpet ... not of Gabriel ... but the trumpet of defeat, degradation, and retreat. They seek only to be the herald of the death of the dream that was America.
You should be ashamed of what you (the press) have become.
Instead of giving us a choice, you give us mush ..... "all the children have mush" .....
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