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. [...]

Magnolia Voice captures cougar exclusive

It started with a post on Next Door Media site MagnoliaVoice.com explaining that a neighbor reported seeing a cougar in Discovery Park, a popular Seattle park. Over the next few days, more sightings streamed in to Magnolia Voice, and the site created a map to track the reports. Our editorial partners, the [...]

My Ballard finalist for Online Journalism Award

Next Door Media’s first site, MyBallard.com, is a finalist for a national Online Journalism Award for “community collaboration.” This is a prestigious award, so we’re thrilled, to say the least. We’re up against the LA Times and the Miami Herald for the award, which will be announced in early October.

Next Door Media partners with Seattle Times

We’re excited to announce an editorial partnership with the Seattle Times that encompasses all of Next Door Media’s sites. The partnership originated with a grant by American University’s J-Lab, which aims to explore how established media companies can work together with promising neighborhood news sites.
You may have noticed over the last several weeks [...]