The press corps in Olympia is about to lose another reporter.
The Olympian’s Adam Wilson has taken a job as Governor Chris Gregoire’s speech writer.
Wilson tells PubliCola: “I’ll still be able to do what I like to do—talk to the public about public policy—in a job that has a future in it. We all know that newspapering is in hard times.”
Wilson has been at the Olympian for five years and wrote a killer state politics blog. He says the Olympian wants to fill his spot. (It’ll be tough to do, I say.)
Asked if this proved he was just another Democrat from the liberal media revealing his hand, Wilson said: “Nobody asked me about my politics in the interview.”
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A sad day for the Oly press corps, though I am happy for Adam. Don’t know him personally but have admired his work from afar.
I hope the Olympian does fill his spot. Otherwise poor Brad Shannon is going to get lonely.
Looks like more reason to read Publicola.
LOMG!
IF people who are called ‘reporters’ do NOT rock the boat too much while ‘reporting’,
ya know, like defining some candidates are ‘front runner’ before an election, instead of reporting on ALL candidates for office before an election -
someday you too can join the robert maks? on a fat payroll!
I honestly haven’t a clue about this fellows reporting – BUT, I do wonder about the ‘reporting’ I read on this new media acting like the old media.
If I had been smart enough to prep with all of you, I’d be smart enough to know the new media just isnt’ a new clique of insiders?
rmm.
Political reporters don’t grow on trees. You can’t just hire one unless you hire one from the same market and that’s a zero sum game. The TIme’s coverage of Olympia dropped off dramatically this year. It lost two of its three Olympia reporters. Even if papers really want to keep covering politics in depth, an experienced reporter will take years to replace.