samiwest.bsky.social
Online editor/reporter at KUOW, Seattle's NPR station. 📧: swest@kuow.org
👤 Joined on 18 November 2024
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@samiwest.bsky.socialWell, it happened. One of the authors targeted by my impersonator paid them. I am so distraught. Please, please, please DO NOT PAY FOR INTERVIEWS. Full stop. If a "journalist" tells you you have to pay them, they're either a scammer or not someone you should be talking to anyway.
Show PostSitting here in City Hall waiting on an interview with the mayor about what's happening with the police chief. Guess they scheduled me late in the day, because the Seattle Times just went up. Not like I've been working 12 hours a day on this or anything!
Show PostEarlier this week, my colleague Monica joked about being dead by the time light rail came to Ballard. I said "Well, I hope you're alive in 13 years." (Ballard's line was set to open in 2039). With today's news, I still don't think we'll be dead when it's finally built, but we might be a lot older.
Show Post“She told a local broadcaster her parents help pay for child care.” That’s a unique way to credit my reporting for @kuow.org, @nytimes.com. “She told KUOW” would’ve been more concise.
Show PostI had an interview with Katie Wilson during which I shared my own story to explain my questions about her financial situation, and we had what I thought was a productive conversation about privilege/generational wealth. Read the story and decide what it means to you. www.kuow.org/stories/kati...
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