State-funded journalism is here in Washington state
By summer’s end, 16 journalism fellows will begin their two-year, state-funded fellowship led by the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. The fellows will travel to newsrooms across the state to cover multiple news deserts where underserved communities lack access to local journalism. The fellowship is modeled after the recently established […]
Two Washington Democratic political power players announce retirements
OLYMPIA—Senate Majority Leader Andy Billig (D-Spokane) and Senate President Pro Tempore Karen Keiser (D-Des Moines), two high ranking policy makers who have shaped Washington politics for at least a decade, announce they will be leaving the legislature this year. Appointed to fill an open seat in the Washington State House of Representatives in 1995, then-candidate […]
