Excited to share this news! And congrats to my partner in crime, Audra 😎

CDN kicks off 2026 with new purpose and new leadership in three key positions. Read about the changes in Executive Editor Ron Judd's weekly column.

I don't get to design doubletrucks often. This week, I made a map of Whatcom and Skagit counties, with their respective rivers, and reporter @annietodd.bsky.social put together a timeline of the flooding below that correlates with the four river gauges Cascadia Daily News was tracking last week.

Nerded out a bit with this story. Pitched it when I learned that the same guy designed all these logos of popular places downtown Bellingham. Read about Bradley and graphic design in my story for @cascadiadaily.com ⬇️

First cut of this was half the length and made me cry. Finn did a great job adapting to the many changes we’ve had at CDN during the production of this video! As one of the few original staff members, seeing how far we’ve come really hits home.

Field reporting… Can confirm there are bees… (See story below @cascadiadaily.com)

Jesse Ericksen dreamed of finishing the final leg of Ski to Sea, but he never got the chance. As @jayaflanary.bsky.social reports, the Ski to Sea team, TydalWave, is competing in honor of Ericksen, who died by suicide in 2023.

Cascadia Daily News has earned three awards in the 2025 National Headliner Awards, including national honors for overall journalistic excellence in a local news site. The contest honored the best American journalism in 2024.

Heard in the newsroom while headline writing: Is there a shorter word than ‘was’? @annietodd.bsky.social

A simple “What’s the deal with?” turned into this story about the first piece of art Canadians see when they enter the U.S., and the two Seattle artists who created it in 2007.

Got to put together a 2020 timeline with Annie this week.

I’ve done five escape rooms, the most recent one was at Cryptid Escapes. While there, I realized how much time I focus on the details, like set design and wondering how things work. “Where do you think they bought that lamp?” clouds my head while playing. So, I asked the owners. And wrote about it!

I saw the Bookmobile when I was at WCLS writing a different story. Immediately messaged Cocoa, knowing this would be a great story but not knowing how many awesome historical photos would be available. My favorite is the girl picking up a book on her horse!

Hard to believe it’s been 5 years. 2020 was wild: a break up, the pandemic, switched jobs, new relationship, lost my childhood cat, got a kitten. I even dyed my hair purple and then red. CDN rounded up some memories, including when I got my first vaccine, for the anniversary of COVID-19.

My dad’s premonition last night:

Came to Bluesky to post this but saw Finn already had. This was one of those FICs that makes your heart thump during the interview. Barry was suggested to us by a reader, via our news tips line. People know people, and CDN values those suggestions. Send them to [email protected].

Cascadia Daily News is starting weekly trivia. When: 7 p.m. every Monday, beginning Jan. 20. Where: 1327 N. State St. What to expect: General knowledge, with the last round always related to local news. Deals on drinks for Margarita Monday.

Before and after I packed up. This little corner under the constantly leaking skylight was a great home base for my first grown-up job. However I’m VERY excited to have “both sides” of the newsroom come together next week in the same office suite.

Hey, it’s me! Take a peak at next week’s paper and see how many design tweaks you can spot. Send feedback to me at [email protected].

Cascadia Daily News in Bellingham, Washington is hiring four positions. ➡️ Visual Journalist ➡️ Audience Engagement Editor ➡️ Health Care and Public Health Reporter ➡️ Advertising Sales and Production Coordinator Learn more and apply at cascadiadaily.com/jobs.

Journalism dramas don’t work because no one wants to watch a journalism drama. It’s why Alaska Daily didn’t work. But if someone smart made an “Abbott Elementary” like show based in a newsroom (a comedy), it would gain traction from journalists and non-journalists.

The door did, in fact, bust down.

See thread 🧵 to learn about the Concrete Herald’s staff of… one. Kudos to this man 👏🏼 Also, 5,595 local newspapers in the country. Let that sink in.

Happy holidays

Cascadia Daily News has been selected to host a corps member from the national service program Report for America in 2025–26. This journalist will cover health care news in Whatcom and Skagit counties.

Just a regular slack notification from @annietodd.bsky.social blazing across my computer screen:

Monitoring CDN’s social media is honestly my least favorite part about my job 🤡 Here’s a list of behaviors that will get your comment deleted, or your profile blocked, from our accounts.

PNW librarians’ book recs… reposting for #booksky (the biggest community I’ve seen on here so far).

Can’t believe this was 1 year ago. I remember waking up to the photos and our whole team at CDN kicking into full gear. I only went to the Independent once, almost a year earlier with someone I met in grief counseling after my stepdad (also a Nate) died. For that, it holds a special place in my ❤️

A good reminder for us all. CDN thread on the latest Made in Cascadia installment:

The Daily Prophet’s journalists in Harry Potter do NOT follow the SPJ code of ethics. Or any ethics whatsoever.

Made my on-camera debut for @charlottealden.bsky.social’s new series looking at the indoor recreation options in Bellingham and why it’s not enough. I now have a passable proficiency in After Effects

THIS but then I also have copy-editing brain and I complain about signs at Winco not having proper hyphens.

Follow CDN’s staff members with a single click! #localnews #journalists #Bellingham

Oregon wildlife biologist Eric Forsman has been protecting the spotted owl for a half-century but questions the plan. “It doesn’t give me any satisfaction at all to say this, but trying to control barred owls is largely a waste of time. The genie is out of the bottle.” Learn more:

As we head into the holidays and mark the 60th anniversary of a Rankin/Bass TV classic, it's time to reshare one of my favorite columns from a decade ago: "The Geeky Tech Behind #Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." I had convinced my GeekWire editors this was state-of-the-art technology. For its time.

Excited news from CDN today. Our 3-year-old hyperlocal news organization has switched from Twitter/X to Bluesky.

Yes please, let’s get #ricksteves on Bluesky. A big thank you to Rick for visiting us recently in #Bellingham and leading a fantastic discussion on #fascism. #localjournalism Read or watch in thread ⬇️

Nevada just banned ‘slavery and involuntary servitude’ in prisons. Why didn’t California? One reason: The Nevada measure called it "slavery." The California measure didn't. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Naomi Beinart, 16: "We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman...Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday."

An insightul update here on the ongoing Nooksack Tribal enrollment dispute by Cascadia Daily News reporter Sophia Gates, a Murrow Fellow. www.cascadiadaily.com/2024/nov/15/...

Interesting experience of a women professor learning to weld. She reports what you would expect, it can be tough for women in these fields. A comment suggested this can be typical shop talk. I have experienced it myself. But I imagine it's on a whole other level. theconversation.com/only-5-3-of-...