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Jeff Bezos celebrates the opening of the new ‘modernized’ Washington Post headquarters

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who bought the The Washington Post back in 2013 for $250 million, ushered in a new era at the paper… Read More

Seattle online news site Crosscut merges with KCTS 9, forms new ‘multiplatform’ non-profit Cascade Public Media

Two Seattle-based non-profits are joining forces in an effort to create a new media entity that the organizations say will… Read More

Sqoop raises cash to help journalists efficiently mine public documents

On a visit to a Seattle newsroom last year, public relations executive Bill Hankes was pained as he watched a… Read More

Public-relations pros: Amazon’s belated rebuttal to the NYT ‘recasts the foundation of crisis PR’

Amazon’s surprising response to the New York Times has received lots of attention in the tech world this week — coming more than two… Read More

Seattle man one of five finalists in ‘The Next MacGyver’ contest

The five finalists who may make the next great show about a female MacGyver were announced this week — and… Read More

Former AllRecipes president jumps back into food world, buys Serious Eats and Roadfood

Lisa Sharples spent six years as the head honcho at Allrecipes, leading the Seattle company to prominence in the online… Read More

How technology turned these humanitarian workers into cutting-edge filmmakers

Veteran aid worker and filmmaker David Darg was at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York last month when he saw… Read More

Vox Media to acquire Re/code as tech media landscape continues to shift

Vox Media, owner of The Verge, SB Nation and Vox among others, is acquiring startup tech media site Re/code in a stock… Read More

Hulu, Amazon and Yahoo reportedly in running to grab ‘Seinfeld’ streaming rights

The puffy shirt. Risk, a game about world domination being played by two men who can barely run their own… Read More

Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen touts $4M digital upgrade, looks to keep pace with innovation

The Seattle Times is making a big bet on digital, hoping to capture a new generation of readers who’ve fled… Read More

GeekWire at 4 years: How we’ve evolved, and what’s next in our startup adventure

Four years ago this week, we left our jobs at a big media company and launched GeekWire — determined to finally control our… Read More

Outspoken mavericks unite: Richard Sherman inks endorsement deal with John Legere’s T-Mobile

This is going to be fun to watch. Two of Seattle’s most outspoken media personalities — Richard Sherman of the… Read More

Amazon at the movies: Company to debut up to 12 films a year in theaters, with quick release on Prime

Fresh off its big Golden Globe win for the TV series Transparent, Amazon today announced that it will produce and… Read More

Amazon and Netflix buy full-page ads in NYT to promote Web TV series

Netflix and Amazon.com are going old-school in their attempts to gain viewers for their Web TV series, with both companies… Read More

YouTube tests new GIF creation tool, promising to flood the Internet with quippy pics

Finding the perfect animated response is about to get a lot easier. That’s because YouTube is quietly testing a new… Read More

Washington Post’s new Kindle Fire app has Jeff Bezos written all over it

Not every newspaper can lean on one of the world’s top tech executives as a beta tester and adviser when developing a new… Read More

Startup vet Terry Drayton is getting sued again, this time by his longtime PR advisor

Mark Firmani served as Terry Drayton’s trusted public relations counsel, helping the Seattle entrepreneur and former HomeGrocer.com CEO navigate some… Read More

FBI created fake Seattle Times news story in scheme to implant spyware on bomb-threat suspect’s computer

Should the FBI be permitted to impersonate the news media in order to nab criminals? That’s the question being raised… Read More

Glenn Fleishman to shutter The Magazine, an experiment in long-form online journalism

Longtime Seattle-based journalist Glenn Fleishman is pulling the plug on The Magazine, a bi-weekly independent digital tech publication originally started by… Read More

Tech scribe Kara Swisher: ‘Journalism has never been less influential’

Kara Swisher is one of the most trusted and feared technology journalists on the planet, with a massive social following… Read More

4 cultural traps to avoid, courtesy of this leaked New York Times report

The New York Times ran a fantastic story last week about the struggles companies face in a digital world. Its… Read More

Bing Don’t Lie: Microsoft algorithm accurately predicts outcome of ‘The Voice’

So far, so good for Microsoft’s foray into pop-culture predictions. By crunching data from social networks and the company’s Bing search engine, Microsoft was able… Read More

Bummed in ‘Silicon Valley’: Why I can’t stand these new shows about startups

Last week I did something I rarely do. I posted an angry tweet: “Everyone,” huh? Again, TV people, would it… Read More

This startup wants to reinvent TV as we know it, without blowing up the industry

Apple TV. Roku. Google Chromecast. Amazon Fire TV. There are no shortage of ways to watch video programming these days… Read More

Gawker’s Nick Denton knows exactly what Jeff Bezos should do with The Washington Post: Ditch print, distribute Kindles

Nick Denton is a controversial new media titan, uncovering the gossip that no one else in the news business will… Read More

Social TV startup Wetpaint acquired by Viggle for $30M

Wetpaint, an 8-year-old Seattle startup led by entrepreneur Ben Elowitz, has been sold to New York-based Viggle for a purchase… Read More

Jeff Bezos says Don Graham talked him into buying Washington Post

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dropped something of a bombshell in an interview with Charlie Rose that was posted on the 60… Read More

Chart: It’s not looking good for print publishers

It’s a bad time to be a print publisher in America. That’s the clear takeaway from a new chart published… Read More

Former Cheezburger and Garden.com exec launches firm to gobble up emerging digital media properties

Seattle Internet executive Cliff Sharples is currently on an around-the-world adventure with his wife and five kids — writing about… Read More

Hark hits the wall: Corporate records list ‘void’ status, co-founder now at Amazon

The story of Hark — a Seattle startup that was attempting to build the YouTube of audio clips and once… Read More