The past two decades have been rough for the newspapers. In the digital age, most people expect to get their information for free, shaking the traditional news industry. But to Seattle-based… Read More
TheSkimm’s secret sauce is cleverly and playfully reframing the daily news in a way that resonates with its target demographic — female young professionals. So it’s fitting that the media company’s… Read More
Seattle is growing — or perhaps a better term is exploding — at an almost startling rate. An average of 263 people are moving to the region each day, and Seattle’s skyline is dotted with… Read More
Soda.com, a Seattle media company that operates consumer sites like The Simple Dollar and Reviews.com, has sold to Red Ventures. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It’s the latest… Read More
James Heckman is getting the band back together. The Rivals.com founder and former Yahoo executive today announced the formation of theMaven Network, a new digital media company that will feature… Read More
JJ McKay and an impressive suite of investors believe there’s serious demand for a cannabis lifestyle brand that’s decidedly more Martha Stewart than Snoop Dogg. To fill that need, the Seattle… Read More
“All the News That’s Fit to Print” doesn’t need a ton of space when it’s limited to one word. The New York Times, under a “Tech Tip” label in its… Read More
The journalist who wrote an Inc. Magazine cover story about Dan Price — the Gravity Payments CEO known for raising minimum salaries to $70,000 — made a pitch to collaborate… Read More
Could Facebook emerge as the next big player in travel? Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he expects to see competition from the social network, in a recent interview with travel… Read More
You can dive a little deeper into this week’s issue of The New Yorker magazine thanks to an augmented reality cover illustration that requires a special app for your mobile… Read More
Allrecipes spent most of 2015 cooking up what it calls “Dot Next,” a redesign with an emphasis on social features, mobile optimization, and community. The Seattle-based online recipe company’s goal… Read More
Some of France’s most popular publications are taking a tough new stance against ad blockers, the name given to software that strips advertisements out of web pages. Geste, a trade… Read More
Ten years ago, to the day, Jack Dorsey launched a platform that would facilitate social movements, spark a new form of shorthand internet speak, and bring people together during major world… Read More
It may be hard to believe, but Twitter is nearly a decade old. The platform has seen its ups and downs over the years, but it seems to have found… Read More
Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is in talks to buy an undisclosed stake in the Chinese business and financial magazine, Caixin, through Alibaba’s financial arm, Ant… Read More
This past weekend, nearly 100 people wandered around Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood looking for a unicorn. No, not one of the region’s billion-dollar startups, but a pink unicorn, named Mr. Sparkles.… Read More
Yahoo announced Wednesday that it was phasing out a number of its digital magazines in an effort to refocus its content strategy and simplify its business. In a Tumblr post, Yahoo… Read More
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who bought the The Washington Post back in 2013 for $250 million, ushered in a new era at the paper during today’s grand opening of their “modernized” offices. According to the… Read More
Two Seattle-based non-profits are joining forces in an effort to create a new media entity that the organizations say will spark an “exciting new chapter” for regional news in the… Read More
On a visit to a Seattle newsroom last year, public relations executive Bill Hankes was pained as he watched a journalist perform the mundane task of sifting through public documents… Read More
Amazon’s surprising response to the New York Times has received lots of attention in the tech world this week — coming more than two months after the newspaper’s widely read article about Amazon’s “bruising… Read More
The five finalists who may make the next great show about a female MacGyver were announced this week — and a Seattle entrant made it. Craig Motlong, a creative director… Read More
Lisa Sharples spent six years as the head honcho at Allrecipes, leading the Seattle company to prominence in the online recipe space, not to mention a $175 million acquisition by… Read More
Veteran aid worker and filmmaker David Darg was at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York last month when he saw the alert about the devastating earthquake in Nepal. Soon he was… Read More
Vox Media, owner of The Verge, SB Nation and Vox among others, is acquiring startup tech media site Re/code in a stock deal of undisclosed size. The announcement was made just as… Read More
The puffy shirt. Risk, a game about world domination being played by two men who can barely run their own lives. Shrinkage. All these classic episodes from the ’90s iconic… Read More
The Seattle Times is making a big bet on digital, hoping to capture a new generation of readers who’ve fled newspapers as part of decades-long switch in news consumption habits.… Read More
Four years ago this week, we left our jobs at a big media company and launched GeekWire — determined to finally control our own destiny and build the technology news site and community… Read More
This is going to be fun to watch. Two of Seattle’s most outspoken media personalities — Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks and John Legere of T-Mobile — are teaming… Read More
Fresh off its big Golden Globe win for the TV series Transparent, Amazon today announced that it will produce and acquire feature-length movies for theatrical release. The movies will then… Read More