Our coverage in today’s paper of the memorial for Charlie and Braden Powell marks the end of an emotional week for our community and one that tested the newsroom as we tried to be thorough but sensitive on a story that drew national coverage.
Those of us being governed get to see how the government works. We shouldn’t have to play guessing games to figure it out.
Well. That was a week, wasn’t it?
First, some good news. We are again publishing stories, columns and photos from The New York Times.
A few readers contacted us last week with concerns – even anger – over our front-page photograph Tuesday of the man who shot and killed Mount Rainier National Park ranger Margaret Anderson.
Watching the traffic numbers on our website helps us figure out what readers find most interesting at the moment, but doesn’t necessarily tell us which stories were the biggest news in our community this year.
Our state’s Temple of Justice, the grand building on the Capitol Campus in Olympia that houses the state Supreme Court, is beautiful but imposing. Inside the court before a proceeding, spectators sit in pew-like benches, whispering as if they’re in church. Every footstep, every shuffling of papers, draws attention. All are called to stand as the robed justices file in and sit in carved wood chairs behind the elevated bench.
Keeping up with new technology and changing readership habits are two of the biggest challenges for our industry and certainly for The News Tribune.
Tacoma City Council members held an impressively thoughtful and candid conversation Tuesday night about which of the seven semifinalists for city manager they would make finalists.
A strange little graffiti battle transpired over the past week at the top of a highway off-ramp in Tacoma.
Few news story characters stay with us for 10 years the way Cecil Leading Horse has. Fewer still have left such a legacy.
To all of you who grasp my hand when you meet me and lament the death of our business …
As new technology makes communication easier, it complicates efforts to monitor the official activities of public officials. It also complicates the efforts of public officials to have the private lives they deserve.
Imagine her surprise when News Tribune food critic Sue Kidd read a review of a Tacoma restaurant on Facebook that sounded almost word-for-word like one she had written.
We’re going a little retro beginning with today’s newspaper.
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