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Welcome to No News Is Bad News

This wiki has been created to facilitate the planning of a public events to discuss the future of Seattle news (see Event 1 and Event 2). It launched after more than 25 people interested in the idea came together at a Jan. 15 meetup at Oddfellows Cafe and Bar in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. If you want to get involved or learn more, please fill out the "get involved" form and we'll set you up wiki privileges; you can also sign up for the listserv .

If you have questions, email Mónica Guzmán (moniguzman@gmail.com) or Dylan Wilbanks (wnalyd@gmail.com) or Josh Bis (web@sciencevsromance.net).

Planning Meetings

We will be holding planning meetings leading up to our next event (Event 2) at Office Nomads (1617 Boylston Ave, Seattle, WA) [map] Please see the Event 2 page and add your input.

Where will Event 2 be held?

We are hoping to return to the Bertha Landes Room of City Hall; for other potential venues, see VENUES

When should this event be held?

We are hoping for a time in late March.

How do we get the word out?

Meetup attendees had a few ideas. Please star the good ones and add any thoughts you might have:

Twitter hashtag: #nnbn

It stands for "No News Is Bad News" and has not been used previously as a Twitter hashtag. If we brand this right, could be a good tracker.
#nnbn has been defined at http://tagal.us/tag/nnbn

Facebook event page

Might not be too useful until more details are hashed out.

Community newspaper press releases

Twitter and Facebook reach people online, but what about all the readers who care about this issue but don't use these resources? Community newspapers like the Queen Anne News and Capitol Hill Times were suggested as places to run press releases about this event and meetings leading up to it.

Open stream during the event

Someone notably suggested we find ways to record and podcast the event, but also give people who can't make it a way to interact live with the events.

   5.   Contact active local political groups with an interest in media issues
                    Example: 34th District Democrats in West Seattle would likely agree to tell their membership (they have a vibrant website and
                    a postal-mail monthly newsletter)
   6. Create flyer when details are set, downloadable so everyone interested can print out a copy or two to tack up at their neighborhood
           coffeeshops, library, schools

So how did Event 1 go, anyway?

Very well. We estimate about 160 people showed for the event; we received press coverage from the Seattle P-I and multiple blogs, and we counted about 600 tweets sent between the start of the event and 12 hours later (#nnbn was the #1 trending topic on Twitter for the event time period). From an event level, there was a lot of heat, though we were somewhat disappointed by a lack of consensus. Given that this group is mostly bloggers, it was good to see how the journalists were reacting to all this.

We are not out to save the P-I. We are out to make local journalism better.

Subpages (7): City Hall Committee Meeting Jan. 28 Event 1 Organizing Notes Event 2 Organizing Notes OtherGoals Planning Meeting Agenda -- January 22 Press Release Event 1 Venues