by Andrea James | Aug 22, 2010 | Curiosity, Photos, Seattle, That's Life
While on a recent business trip, I made some coffee in my hotel using the coffee maker next to the television. The Starbucks packets seemed designed especially for the hotel brewer. On check out, I braced myself, expecting to be charged something outrageous. I got my...
by Andrea James | Mar 17, 2010 | Journalism, Seattle, Wall Street logic
If I were responsible for keeping the books, I would’ve shut it down too. It has taken me a year to realize that and admit it. With its spinning neon globe overlooking Elliott Bay, the printed Seattle Post-Intelligencer was a West Coast institution. It was the...
by Andrea James | Aug 15, 2009 | Communication, Journalism, Seattle
Last month, a professional in the information business asked me, “What’s Twitter?” This question came from a smart and capable guy, and so I was stunned. The best definition I could come up with at first was something stupid like, “Twitter? Uh,...
by Andrea James | Aug 5, 2009 | Journalism, Seattle
What an intriguing voicemail, I thought. I looked down at the scribbles on my reporter notepad. “Hey Scott,” I said to my editor, “I just got the strangest message. There’s this investment bank that is looking to hire someone to do corporate...
by Andrea James | Mar 18, 2009 | Journalism, Seattle
Witnessing and writing about the death of one’s own newspaper is not something I’d wish on any reporter. Dan Richman and I kept it together enough to write the front page headline story for the last edition of the newspaper: The online version has a...
by Andrea James | Jan 24, 2009 | Journalism, Seattle
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been put up for sale, and if no buyer emerges, the paper will shut down. Business reporter Dan Richman and I shared responsibility for reporting on this most unhappy news. I wrote this part, which was quoted on Poynter’s...
