Thousands of mourners from the area’s East African community attended a memorial that began Friday morning at KeyArena for the woman and four children who perished in Saturday’s apartment fire in Fremont.
As a tsunami headed for Hawaii, Seattle residents started sharing their experiences on Twitter. Lisa Rizza was kind enough to talk with us about her experience.
Mercer Island resident Lisa Rizza has been asked to stay in her hotel room on Maui as tsunami warnings are announced across Hawaii. She talked to the Seattle Times via telephone on Saturday afternoon.
Seattle Times photographer Erika Schultz flew with a McChord C-17 crew to Haiti and back, sending back images and video back to be edited as the plane delivered relief to Haiti and refugees back to the U.S.
A C-17 crew from McChord Air Force Base delivers aid to Haiti, then returns to the U.S. with earthquake survivors.
In the past few weeks, I’ve had to cover more police memorial services than I thought I would experience in a lifetime. Here is a piece to honor Pierce County sheriff’s deputy Kent Mundell Jr.
The 787 Dreamliner flew for the first time today and I was able to be there and witness it. I did live video leading up to the takeoff, published clips throughout the day on my iPhone using Qik and turned raw video clips from my Sony video camera quickly. I then used video I shot, video shot by Steve Ringman, video shot by Cliff Despeaux and audio from the air traffic control (captured on a police scanner taped to my tripod) to produce this piece.
This is my attempt to honor the four slain Lakewood Police Officers with coverage of their memorial. It uses photos made by The Seattle Times staff as well as the Associated Press photo staff in Seattle. It was very difficult to work on, and very difficult for me to watch. I hope I honored them well.
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organzation, the “Battle in Seattle.” Here, Harley Soltes, who was a Seattle Times photographer at the time, and John Sellers, who was a protest organizer, talk about that week and the years since.
This piece was shot by the fantastic Seattle photographer and Seattle Times staffer Erika Schultz. I had the pleasure of editing it with Erika. Think figure skating, but with roller skates.
Yesterday it was all hands on deck. We covered both sides of three races. With our staffer and the help of three UW students and a journalist on a newspaper exchange program from South Africa, we did it. With everyone out in the field, I watched the speeches most of the candidates made on TV and took notes so I’d be ready to go when the tapes arrived. Tapes were dropped off at my desk, I edited and posted as quickly as possible. Here’s how it all turned out:
Today I had to answer the question, how do you report on Seattle news that breaks in South Carolina?
Boeing was supposed to announce their decision about whether a new assembly plant would be built in Washington or in South Carolina. We were ready to run out and cover the announcement. Then, a wrench was thrown into our plan: the announcement was to be made on the floor of the South Carolina State Senate. They would have a live video cast online we had permission to use. We linked to it, and I recorded the audio. After the speech was made, I edited with audio with some of Mike Siegel’s images he made on a recent trip and voila! Multimedia reporting on breaking news. I hope every day of my new job here at The Seattle Times will be this fun.
