Their website points to a DNS with a conflicting IP address…read more Their Snohomish Tribune paper is run by a person who prints gossip and false details and pushes them off as "news." They allow themselves to be weaponized against individuals targeted by a ringleader of a group of bullies to harass women who are not evangelical enough, white enough, straight enough, or obedient enough. The editor and writer of most articles in the Snohomish Tribune paper does both jobs inadequately. His poor choices open up himself and his publisher to legal challenges.

The company publishes many of the local papers such as Queen Anne News, Capitol Hill Times, etc…read more Too many to list here. I have found their customer service exceptional and prices excellent.

Since the demise of the Seattle PI, there has been a huge gap in local coverage of Washington State…read moreand Seattle news (mainly politics), reported for the people of Seattle, not the outlying suburbs, which the mainstream media pays more attention and caters to. PublicCola fills this coverage gap very nicely, and is a refreshing change from the what the local mainstream media covers, which now days, flips its nose to the people of the City of Seattle and what they want to read. Since the beginning of the year, they've expanded their coverage from local political, to food, music, legal, and land use to name a few. I've been going to the mainstream sites increasingly less, since the writing is much better and much more on par with what this Seattle resident wants to read. So, if you're sick of the lack of detail that the local tv station or newspaper writes, or want much more detail with a Seattle perspective, head over to PublicCola.net and check it out!

A for Effort. That counts for something, right?…read more I first was turned on to Publicola in the late Summer of 2009, when the primary for Mayor of Seattle was really heating up. As a venture headed up by two former Stranger writers (Josh Feit and Erica C. Barnett), it offered the possibility of decent to better coverage of local issues, with some snarky writing to make things a bit more entertaining. As the campaign wore on past the primary, the comment threads really kept me coming back. While they would, at times, get excessively heated, it was the one place where a bunch of local political junkies, insiders, outsiders who wish they were insiders, and antagonists converged and really hashed out the issues (and, occasionally, solely engaged in trashing the other person's favored nominee/position on the tunnel). It was also during this period that Publicola attempted (from my perspective) to go "mainstream", and offer, per Mr. Feit, a "dose of objectivity" to their reporting, an alternative to the blatantly biased reporting at the Stranger, and more subtle biased reporting at the Seattle Times. All of that aside, I still read Publicola daily, and comment fairly regularly. What I fear the site lacks, however, is a clear direction. At one point, it was a local political reporting site, and it seems to be becoming a hodgepodge of random "nerds", with postings at random times of the day. Some are interesting, some are uninteresting, and some are painfully boring and pointless (and not the funny pointless at the Slog (a la Lindy West)). The morning routine of "Morning Fizz" is never in any logical order for the blurbs on stories involved (literally - they will post on a topic from the City Council, then some random bit about THEESatisfaction, back to the City Council, someone is going to be on KUOW, State Legislature, and some other random bit), and it is common that simple spelling and grammatical errors that MS Word Spellcheck would catch are not caught in the editing room. The "dose" of objectivity is, more often than not, a farce. While there will be occasion of straight news reporting, almost every story includes a clear slant from the reporter involved. Making matters worse, it is rare that there will be opposing viewpoints, until one enters the comment threads. That's not objectivity. There is also the issue of "scoops". It is fairly common that a story will be posted, and end mid-sentence of a paragraph, in shorthand, in order to be the first local outlet to report. I personally find this very troubling, as if being first is more important than being accurate or, even worse, intelligible. Finally, the comment threads are one will_in_seattle away from becoming the mess of BS that the Times comment threads are. This is really sad, because it takes away from good, well thought out conversations to mayor bashing for the sake of mayor bashing. I know that they can't control the comment threads (even though they are known to pull and/or edit comments), but this is just a sad fact. Those gripes aside, the fact that the team at Publicola is willing to do so much digging for stories that most media don't care about (Dr. Bushnell), and really keep following others (the panhandling ordinance), does show a seriousness that they are trying. Where was the Stranger during the Bushnell fiasco? Is the Stranger willing to criticize the man they feigned over during the election? It seems not. Publicola has shown that, even though they'll support you, doesn't mean you're free from tough questions. They've been around for just over a year. I hope that in the next year, they continue to grow, but also continue to work on issues such as editing before posting, ensuring facts are correct, and ordering news items in a way that makes sense. For now, three stars. Maybe next time they can get four.

TL,DR: Found perfect fit: cost, quality, timeframe, happy!…read more Our team at Cookpanion became GNY members last December. We knew we wanted to create videos to show off our product and user success stories, but we only had a few rough ideas of what we wanted to make. Only one person on our team had ever done video production before. We all knew video conversion rates were really high, and that this could be the foundation of our small marketing effort. We wanted 6-12 videos to tell the whole story, and a way to version them for more emphasis throughout the year. After reaching out for bids to 10 of the "Best Seattle Video Producers", we realized the price per video was going to be in the 7.5k-15k range with anywhere from a few $100 to a few $1000 for our idea about versioning the videos, and adding some graphics etc. Well this quickly jumped out of scope for us so we spent the whole month talking to freelancers, and trying to do it ourselves, but we were wasting too much time and energy. Then Ian C reached out to my coworker over LinkedIn saying they had some end of year membership deals. Coworker said it sounded like exactly what we were looking for, which is hilarious, because the day before I had decided we should all stop looking and backburner the project for a bit. Why they get 5-stars in my book! 1) The customer service was fast, and actually helpful. 2) Membership got us 6 product videos, a custom intrographic, music, screencapture, greenscreen testimonials, background image, and graphical callouts. 3) It was roughly $700 per video (after tax). Freelancers were more expensive at around $1k per video. 4) They turned around each video in a week. 5) Their membership gave us 12 hours of consulting/practice time with their producers to talk about script, storyboarding, how to prepare to be on camera, which was really the gamechanger. 6) The studio wasn't flashy or expensive. It had everything but was still startup, funky, cool. My boss liked that. 7) Also it was a mile away from our offices, near the pike place market. 8) The videos we made were great. We didn't need a $15k creative piece, we needed something simple, but with better quality than the lighting and sound we could do in our offices. 9) Best of all, our 6 customers who provided the testimonials in studio had a good time. 10) Also, the clients who were in studio before us were like Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks so that was reassuring and a bit impressive. I guess no one can do it cheaper in house, haha. Anyhow, I thumbs up them. Much recommending. Ask for Ian, Eric, Troy, or Jeff. Cheers, Ian

Gotta love free magazines. Especially ones that provide articles you don't find anywhere else. It…read morekind of reminds me of a mixture of Utne, Yoga Journal, and Vegetarian Times with a side of The Nation. Plus, no escort ads in the back! You would expect to find articles on spirtuality, yoga, organic food and sometimes art and politics. And best of all, most of its articles deal with local issues. This month there is an article on Washington's Green Vineyard Tour and Matt's in the Market, which I am now going to check out. Among some of the things you find in the classifieds: free yoga classes every saturday at 2:30 pm, a monthly movie series that presents problems and offers solutions, a free Transcendental Mediation session (I myself am not a follower of TM but am interested in checking it out), and much more. Check it out, and I guarantee you will get your moneys worth. Zipzap Zubidy Bop!

They have their money where their mouth is. Gotta respect…read morethem for that! The staff is very active in personally and with no pay volunteering and promoting their values. I volunteered for them at a booth at the Fremont Festival. I got to describe to people the merits an duse of an electric car. It was really fun and I learned a lot. I also got a cute green shirt, a little earth-friendly bag and a gift certificate from cafe Flora. i respect and appreciate that greatly. Like any media,, at times, they may feature a business or organization which has soem customer difficulties.. like all, they don't respond to calls to editor. I hope they read or listen to the comments. It always feel bad when a group whom I admire allows a business with poor customer service free coverage. Many deserve coverage. I am not the editor and as I ponder this dilemna.. I may not wish to be.

You may not like every show, but this independent radio station has a show for nearly every tastes…read more Mostly run by volunteers, this nonprofit station is a breath of fresh air from corporate-owned radio. Love it!

ROCK 'N ROLL TIME MACHINE is one of the best shows on Saturday mornings if you love good stories…read moreand facts about various artists. The station as a whole has become a staple of my daily life in Everett.

I love this paper! It keeps me in the know about what is happening in Seattle's black community. I…read moream grateful for the family that has ran this paper for so long. It is a staple. Even during the pandemic when I felt so isolated and alone, getting the paper mailed to me each week and reading the stories in the paper kept me uplifted. Thank you for being there for us and keeping the black community connected in the northwest.

I was extremely pleased with the prompt and efficient service I received from the staff at the…read moreSeattle Medium.