Morning Fizz: Gone Fishin'

Caffeinated news and gossip featuring PubliCola.

Erica Barnett and Josh Feit in a Pioneer Square alley.

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Erica Barnett and Josh Feit in a Pioneer Square alley.

This is our last post at Crosscut. The team here is great — and founder David Brewster has been particularly gracious and supportive, bringing Erica and me on board so we could continue to write. As Brewster wrote when he brought us on in mid-May to preserve our reporting:

I'm glad we could row our little lifeboat out to them. ... May what they started long live on!

We're grateful for Brewster's amazing support at Crosscut, but PubliCola is our thing. And it will live on. More details to come, but the Cola will be back in full force later this month. 

For now, we're taking a much needed break.

As Erica puts it, cell phones are off and we've "Gone fishin'."

See you soon.

 


About the Author

Erica C. Barnett was the news editor for Seattle's online news site, PubliCola, where she covered city hall, transportation, land use, and state politics. She had also been the news editor and city hall columnist for The Stranger. In 2007, the King County Municipal League named Erica its Government Affairs Reporter of the year. She can be reached at erica.barnett@crosscut.com.

Award-winning journalist Josh Feit founded and edited the online news site PubliCola, where he also did double duty as the state house reporter, covering the legislature in Olympia. Before that, for nine years, he was the news editor and political columnist at Seattle's alt-weekly, The Stranger. He can be reached at josh.feit@crosscut.com.

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Comments:

Posted Tue, Jun 12, 9:49 a.m. Inappropriate

Enjoy your break. Your return is eagerly awaited!

Posted Tue, Jun 12, 10:18 a.m. Inappropriate

I'm confused so I'll just give my congrats with the captcha below. theHeh store,

Posted Tue, Jun 12, 10:58 a.m. Inappropriate

Darn. I wanted to read another nine stories about parking at Northgate.

crossrip

Posted Tue, Jun 12, 11:24 a.m. Inappropriate

Get back to doing what you do best!

Stealing copyrighted images from commercial rights holders
Mistranscribing facts
Quoting and lauding Reuven Carlyle
Waging war on Catholics
Advancing the "War on Women" narrative on the basis of not wanting to pay for birth control
Taking wine from QFC
Not paying your bills
Pairing your editorial coverage with ad buys from campaigns
Issuing multiple uncommented corrections to your stories after readers fact check for you
Running a blog about "Seattle" written by "journalists" who are "dedicated" to "non-partisan" "original" daily reporting that prioritizes a "balanced" approach to "news"

Posted Wed, Jun 13, 8:29 a.m. Inappropriate

heh heh

NotFan

Posted Wed, Jun 13, 1:50 a.m. Inappropriate

It just goes to show you, if you expose Dow Constantine and the One party Democrat rulers in this town for the hypocrites that they are, you will be run off.

Cameron

Posted Wed, Jun 13, 10:30 a.m. Inappropriate

Hooray! Also, congratulations on the correct use of 'me'.

andy

Posted Wed, Jun 13, 12:08 p.m. Inappropriate

Please let people know where you land next.

sandik

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