After 16 years on Capitol Hill, Ada’s Technical Books to close and sibling Fuel Coffee shops up for sale A house home to a book shop on 15th Ave E for decades will need a fresh start and new owners are being sought for its sibling coffee shops. Ada’s Technical Books & Cafe will close in June…

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Mapping the relationship between journalistic discourse, tech industry layoffs, and artificial intelligence - Anne Herfurth, Jessica Maddox, 2026 The tech industry’s 2023–2024 mass layoffs represented a critical moment in which an infallible industry seemed to suddenly lay bare its weak spots. Historicall...

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Fun to “swing by” #frenchquarterfest #FQF26 :)

Longtime Seattle political columnist dies Former Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Joel Connelly was a respected political commentator and fierce defender of the Pacific Northwest's wilderness areas.

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Saving local news also means saving the archives - Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...

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Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases Leaked documents show IRGC secretly acquired system and used it to guide strikes during war in March

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette saved from closure - Poynter Three weeks from it's scheduled closure, the nonprofit that owns The Baltimore Banner swooped in to save the historic daily paper.

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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

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The Feminist History of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ Trixie Friganza, an actress and suffragist, inspired the popular song of the seventh inning stretch

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Artemis 2 LIVE: Orion astronauts return to Earth Friday, April 10, 2026: See our latest news and updates on NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission.

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The Brothers Whittaker Whenever we play in the mountains, we owe a debt to Jim and Lou Whittaker. The Seattle twins conquered Mount Rainier and REI, and made mountaineering the Northwest’s signature sport.

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This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Happy Easter to those who celebrate!

Historic Sites in Journalism The Society’s Historic Sites in Journalism program honors the people and places that have played important roles in American journalistic history. The program dates back to 1942.

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Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders

Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general

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Chag sameach! to those who celebrate

Live: Four astronauts await liftoff on humanity’s first flight to the moon in half a century Four astronauts are awaiting liftoff on humanity's first flight to the moon in more than half a century.

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A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms ...

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Federal judge finds Trump violated free speech by ordering NPR defunded A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive ordering the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment.<br />

A federal judge has knocked down the core of President Trump's executive order barring federal funding for NPR and PBS, saying it violated the broadcasters' First Amendment rights on its face.

Bench trial? Baton Rouge lawyer suing LSU over removed advertising bench near University Lakes The bench, which attorney Neil Sweeney believes was removed by LSU maintenance workers in November 2024, highlights a larger property line dispute on the banks of Crest Lake.

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This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water

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Why Every High School Student in Latvia Is Learning to Shoot a Gun While the U.S. focuses on Iran, Latvia’s gaze is firmly on Russia.

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We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work on a self-defined research project in environmental history that places electronic or digital technologies at the center of its historical inquiry.
More details in the announcement linked to below.
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The 'In Living Color' Effect How a radical sketch-comedy show helped usher in the cultural boom of Black comedy in the 1990s

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Have We Reached the Final Days of the Mass-Market Paperback? One of the largest paperback distributors has decided to stop supporting the format, which has been making reading accessible to the masses since the 1930s

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