I am a reporter and Web producer for SeattlePI.com, the nation’s first major daily newspaper — the Seattle Post-Intelligencer — to shutter its print operations and go online only. We have a newsroom of 20 covering one of America’s largest cities. As a reporter, I cover higher education, K-12 education and e-retail. In addition to writing, I am proficient in video production, audio editing and photography.
Before the P-I, I was a sports multimedia producer for The Spokesman-Review covering sports — high school, college and professional — in and around the Spokane, Wash., area. In addition to producing videos, I did a lot of print reporting, including coverage of the Spokane Indians baseball team during summer 2008 and supplemental coverage of the Sweet 16-bound Washington State men’s basketball team in 2007-08.
I held numerous jobs at the Spokesman, starting a print reporter covering the night cops beat. After about six months, I was transferred to the sports department to cover the WSU Cougars, and moved to Pullman to work out of my home office. I produced supplemental print, video and blog coverage for five months before moving back to Spokane to do general sports multimedia production.
I graduated magna cum laude from Washington State University with a journalism degree from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. At the student newspaper, The Daily Evergreen, I held numerous positions and worked my way up to editor-in-chief. For a summer, I interned as a full-time business writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, back when it had a print circulation of 140,000. I have freelanced for numerous other Pacific Northwest newspapers, and for Web sites such as CookusInterruptus.com and SolarPieWorks.com.
Video and writing samples can be found on this Web site. More information about me is, of course, available by request.
njeaton@comcast.net
