Next Door Media partners with My Green Lake

We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with MyGreenLake.com, one of Seattle’s best neighborhood news sites. Edited by Amy Duncan, My Green Lake is teaming up with Next Door Media’s editorial and sales network in North Seattle.

My Green Lake launched in 2009, and the site quickly became the community’s source for news and events in [...]

Poynter highlights our UW partnership

Poynter.org has highlighted Next Door Media’s collaboration with the University of Washington in a story that examines strategies for successful partnerships between news organizations and universities. “Traditionally, news orgs have turned to universities when they’ve needed interns to produce and edit content,” writes Poynter.org’s Mallary Jean Tenore. “Now, they’re starting to realize that students [...]

A neighborhood mourns a shocking loss

One of the biggest stories of the year in Seattle took place this last Saturday morning in Fremont — a fire tore through a townhouse, killing four children and a woman who took shelter in a windowless bathroom.

We were the first news organization on the scene of the fire, and we watched in horror as [...]

3 sites added to Seattle Times partnership

Three of our new sites, Maple Leaf Life, Wedgwood View and My Wallingford, have been added to Next Door Media’s ongoing editorial partnership with the Seattle Times.
In August 2009, the Times began partnering with select independent publishers with the goal to collaborate on news coverage. The partnerships are an extension of the Networked [...]

Alder joins Next Door Media as network editor

We’re excited to announce that Doug Alder, an award-winning Seattle journalist, has joined Next Door Media as editor of our neighborhood news network. Doug is working with our site editors to enhance coordination across neighborhoods, expand regional news coverage in North Seattle, and grow our community and social media efforts.
Doug worked at KING 5 [...]

PhinneyWood wins national journalism award

For the second time in less than a year, Next Door Media has been honored with a prestigious national journalism award. The network’s neighborhood site PhinneyWood.com won the national Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for deadline reporting.
PhinneyWood provided around-the-clock coverage of the series of devastating Greenwood arson fires last [...]

Groundbreaking partnership with UW’s The Daily

Next Door Media has teamed with the University of Washington’s The Daily newspaper to create a neighborhood news site for the University District neighborhood. The groundbreaking partnership with the student-run newspaper spans both daily news coverage and advertising — the first of its kind in the country.
“Our partnership with Next Door Media serves the [...]

UW students showcase entrepreneurial journalism

Through an innovative partnership with The Common Language Project, Next Door Media is publishing a series of multimedia stories produced by students in University of Washington’s entrepreneurial journalism class.
“Next Door Media and the Common Language Project are two of the futures of journalism in America,” said David Dokme, chair of the UW [...]

Seattle fireworks saved with $500k in donations

Wow, that was fast. The news broke on Thursday that Seattle’s last remaining Fourth of July fireworks show at Lake Union was canceled after the production company was unable to land a sponsor. My Wallingford reported on the surprised reaction in the neighborhood that has hosted the event for decades. Hours [...]

SeattlePI.com profiles Next Door Media

As the SeattlePI.com clocks in one year on as a web-only publication, it profiled Seattle’s vibrant independent news scene, including Next Door Media. Our favorite quote from the story comes from Robert McClure of InvestigateWest, who explains what it’s like to be an local news entrepreneur these days. “It’s kind of scary,” McClure [...]

Introducing our new site in Wallingford

Our third new site to launch this year, My Wallingford is the latest addition to Next Door Media, covering the North Seattle neighborhood of Wallingford.

MyWallingford.com is edited by Marina Gordon, a Wallingford resident who has worked in online publishing for Starwave/Disney Internet Group, contributing to ABCNews.com, as well as Real Networks and PBS. “I’m delighted [...]

Our latest addition, Wedgwood View

We’re excited to announce a new site in the Next Door Media family, Wedgwood View, covering the neighborhoods of Wedgwood and View Ridge.

WedgwoodView.com is edited by Wayne Wurzer, longtime Wedgwood business owner, even longer-time journalist and a resident of View Ridge. Wayne worked eight years as a reporter and editor at the Seattle Times, [...]

Welcome our new site in Maple Leaf

For the first time in over a year, Next Door Media has added a new neighborhood news blog to the family: Maple Leaf Life, covering the North Seattle neighborhood of Maple Leaf, from Northgate Mall down to 75th St.

The site is edited by Mai Ling Slaughter, a former Seattle PI copy editor who has since [...]

Next Door Media profiled in NYTimes.com

You can learn more about Next Door Media and Seattle’s competitive blog scene in a story that appeared today in NYTimes.com, PCWorld.com and CIO.com. “Next Door Media’s five Seattle neighborhood blogs are at the forefront of a hyperlocal news boom in Seattle that has grown just as traditional media — including the late Seattle [...]

Seattle indie news getting national attention

Widely-read by journalists across the country, Poynter.org has published a profile of the quickly-growing independent news scene in Seattle, highlighting Next Door Media. They also published a story on the Seattle Times’ partnership with Next Door Media and several other Seattle news sites, including the West Seattle Blog.

“Seattle has become a hotbed for neighborhood [...]

How a neighborhood site can lead on a big story

A 3-alarm fire raged in the Seattle neighborhood of Greenwood, destroying several businesses in the center of the neighborhood — the same neighborhood where an arsonist has struck four times before. An army of reporters and helicopters from the local media responded to the story.

Next Door Media’s PhinneyWood.com, which covers Greenwood and Phinney Ridge, [...]

My Ballard readers ask debate question

My Ballard asked its readers what questions they’d ask the mayoral candidates for the KING 5 and Seattle Times debate. My Ballard’s Kate Bergman recorded three questions on camera, and producers picked one question to ask the candidates — about their plans for the “Missing Link” of the Burke Gilman trail in Ballard.

The candidates responded [...]

The promising future of local journalism

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism released a report today on the future of news, and Next Door Media was included as one of the country’s promising journalism startups. We’re honored to be included, and we agree with the report’s goal to preserve “independent, original, credible reporting.” But we disagree with one of [...]

Next Door Media in the Business Journal

We were profiled in the Puget Sound Business Journal this week, and we talked about Next Door Media’s early days, our growing advertising presence, and why we’re different than some nascent efforts by corporate media to compete with us. The full article is subscription-only, but you can read the first third of it or [...]

Next Door Media wins national journalism award

Next Door Media’s MyBallard.com edged out finalists LA Times and Miami Herald to win a prestigious Online Journalism Award for community collaboration.

“My Ballard is exactly what newspapers are trying to do with hyperlocal content. And these guys do it,” said the judges. “There was no site that fulfills the sense of community collaboration better. [...]