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Excellence in journalism

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Last weekend, The Oregonian captured nine first-place awards in the 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism competition, including first place for government and politics reporting by Michelle Cole, formerly the Capitol bureau chief at The Oregonian and Gallatin’s director of Content & Research.

We want to say congratulations to both the Oregonian and to Michelle.

We’re in a new era of communication that presents both opportunities and challenges. The opportunity is to tell your own story, on your own terms and on your own timeline. But the challenge is the need to create and maintain your own high-quality content and deliver it through your own communications platform. We can help.

When you need timely, targeted content to be delivered through traditional and emerging channels, Michelle can research it, write it and deliver it. Click here to learn more.

We’re proud to have her on our team.

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New hat, same head

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Written by Michelle Cole

During one of the many sobering meetings I attended at The Oregonian about the newspaper’s finances, a colleague leaned over and whispered in my ear: “They’re going to get us down to around 200.”

I didn’t believe him. We had more than 300 in newsroom staff at the time. I had no idea how fast the numbers would shrink or that my whispering colleague and I would join the trend.

We’re not alone. The nation’s newspapers dropped below 40,000 full-time newsroom staff in 2012, a stunning decline from a peak of 56,900 in 1989 and the lowest number of professional journalists since 1978, according to the report, “State of the Media 2013,” recently released by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

To read the rest of Michelle’s piece, click here: http://www.gallatinpublicaffairs.com/insighter/michelle-cole/

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The Future of Families

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Gallatin Public Affairs and Downtown Seattle Association

present
Royer Roundtable
The Future of Families in Downtown Seattle

Seattle’s downtown population has been growing rapidly since 1990 and now has approximately 60,000 residents. East to west, the downtown neighborhood stretches from the waterfront and just east of I-5, and north to south from the International District and Pioneer Square up to South Lake Union. More and more families are part of the mix, and the number of children downtown has doubled over the past twenty years to more than 3,000. In addition, many children commute downtown with their parents to daycare or preschool where they become temporary downtown residents.

The rate of new births downtown is extraordinary – births have doubled downtown over the last decade as young men and women move to the area where they enjoy the robust growth in high paying jobs without the hassles of traffic and having to drive everywhere. Additionally, the influx of seniors in Downtown Seattle since 1990 means many more grandchildren are out and about, visiting downtown restaurants, parks and major attractions.

We are thrilled to partner with the Downtown Seattle Association for the first Royer Roundtable of 2013 to discuss the current efforts to make Downtown Seattle more family friendly, such as locating a public school in the downtown and adding new indoor and outdoor and temporary play spaces. We’ll also talk about other opportunities, what other cities are doing and how the family fits into the overall strategy for a healthy downtown.

When: Tuesday, February 5, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Where: Cutters Crabhouse, 2001 Western Avenue, Seattle 98121

Note: We are no longer accepting RSVPs for this event because it has reached capacity.

Sarah Snider is an Architectural and Urban Designer at LMN Architects. She was recently awarded the American Institute of Architects Seattle Chapter Emerging Professionals Travel Scholarship to study what other communities in North America are thinking about as they confront the physical, economic and cultural issues of families who choose to contribute to the life of our downtowns. Sarah serves on the Seattle Planning Commission and is active in the Urban Land Institute.

Kate Joncas has been president & CEO of the Downtown Seattle Association since 1994, and provided leadership in the establishment of the Metropolitan Improvement District and redevelopment of the Pine Street pedestrian mall, and advanced the increase in Downtown Seattle height restrictions.
Ms. Joncas has more than 30 years’ experience in downtown revitalization in communities around the world, and has written workbooks on Downtown revitalization and won awards in national urban design competitions. She is also a past Chair of the International Downtown Association.

Jen Kelly has been a resident of downtown Seattle for over 5 years, and currently works as the Director of Marketing for VIA Architecture. She lives in Pioneer Square with her husband and six month old daughter, where she also writes the New Pioneer Square — a blog that promotes the positive aspects of the neighborhood. The blog has become a community resource for the Pioneer Square community to turn to for restaurant reviews, news about new developments, special events and more.

Bob Royer is Of Counsel at Gallatin Public Affairs and was a partner in the company for four years. He lives in Belltown and is an active member of the downtown community as an advocate for a public elementary school. Bob served as Deputy Mayor of Seattle for five years during his brother Charles’s term as Mayor. He also writes the blog “The Cascadia Courier: Applying History to Present Day Events and Ideas.” You can read more about Bob here.
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