Posts by Sandeep Kaushik

This was originally posted yesterday. [Editor's Note: We're not sure where our OMG!Obama column has run off too. Perhaps ObamaNerd is embarrassed about his hero's health care bill—which appears to have abandoned the public option and half the public, namely, women. Luckily, we're debuting a new Obama-centric opinion column today (it'll have it's own logo [...]

Former Seattle P-I reporter Kery Murakami, the driving force behind the Seattle Post-Globe online news site, is dialing back his involvement with the site after landing a (paying) job doing communications for the Washington State Budget & Policy Center, a liberal economic and fiscal policy think tank in Seattle. What this means for the already [...]

[Editor's note, this isn't PubliCola's real BarNerd, President Andrew, it's Sandeep, who—it must be acknowledged—is something of real BarNerd himself.] In his “Under the Needle” column, former Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Mike Lewis reported on outside the mainstream, quirky and colorful “stories from the streets of Seattle.” Now Lewis, who lost his job and his column [...]

Back in March of this year PubliCola reported that people close to Crosscut.com, a bastion of high-minded civic commentary, were saying privately that the site might be on its last legs. Founded by David Brewster, who founded the Seattle Weekly in the 1970s and more recently Town Hall, Crosscut was conceived in 2006 in Brewster’s [...]

Yesterday afternoon, Editor & Publisher issued their rankings of traffic at newspaper web sites in May. It contained some very good news for the Seattle P-I.com, which, despite the shuttering of their print edition in March, continues to draw substantial web traffic. They ranked 28th on the E&P list, with just under 1.5 million unique [...]

Josh was getting a little lonely all by himself at PubliCola headquarters, so we decided to double the size of our staff. Erica C. Barnett, news editor of the Stranger (a friend and former colleague of both Josh and I) will be coming on board at PubliCola ASAP as News Editor. Christopher Frizzelle, the Stranger’s [...]

The Seattle Times Company just announced that it has finally succeeded in selling its Maine newspapers. The new owner is a consortium led by Richard Connor, who the Seattle Times describes in their press release announcing the sale as a native of Bangor, Maine, but who since 2006 has been the lead owner, editor and publisher [...]

When we recently announced that Seattle green developer Greg Smith had bought a stake in PubliCola, we promised there would be more announcements coming soon. Today we are making the first of those: The formation of a PubliCola advisory board of high profile players in Seattle’s civic and cultural life. Our new advisory board members are: Greg Smith – [...]

A walk down memory lane: Back in October 2008—seems like ancient history now—Josh called me up and suggested we roll the dice and try to set up a web news site. I thought he must have taken up smoking crack, but we met one evening a few days later in a Capitol Hill bar to talk. I [...]