Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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This past year has been full of goodbyes at The Eagle. Since my father Rick’s death last year, we’ve worked to find a way to keep the paper going, both as an act of service to the community in which I grew up, and as a way of keeping my father’s and grandfather’s legacy alive. This week brings another goodbye. Stacey Lane is departing for an exciting new position she was working to create long before she started with The Eagle. She has done an excellent job in a very difficult time. We hired her to sell ads, but she took on reporting, billing...
Our learning process at The Eagle continues. Last week, we published a letter to the editor signed by “Eric Arthur Blair.” Many astute readers pointed out that the name was the real name of author George Orwell. We slipped up in publishing this letter: our policy is to print the author’s name and town of residence, and not to print anonymous letters. We will do our best to validate letter writers in the future, and will not publish them if we can’t reach the author and have concerns. Unfortunately, letters submitted over the website frequen...
Last week, I attended the Story Discovery at the Scale conference held at Stanford University.The conference brought together a mix of reporters, publishers, technologists, and academics to discuss tools and resources to help news organizations of all sizes better cover local news. Attendees ranged in size from small community news blogs to The New York Times. The Eagle was invited to help represent the needs of small, rural communities like ours. I spoke on a panel about the challenges of deploying new technology and practices in news...
Public meeting coverage in the paper has been sparse for a while now. This is a short-term problem due to staffing. We support public meeting coverage as a vital component of local news and we are working to get this content back in the paper as soon as we can. Stacey and Ian are doing a great job getting the newspaper out each week. I work full-time at Microsoft and contribute to The Eagle as I can. Brandon works in theater and has done the same. None of us are formally trained for newspaper publishing. Each week, we learn new things, fix...
