Burien's original "hyperlocal" news blog, and one of the first in the Northwest.
Burien's first, original and most-popular local online news website since 12/11/07. Published/Edited by 3-time National Emmy Award winning Writer (and former/restored Journalist) Scott Schaefer, a Burien resident. We are a FREE, Advertiser supported publication, and we do NOT charge to do articles for residents or non-profits.
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Burien's first, original and most-popular "local blog," online since Dec. 11, 2007.
Our local reach is pretty impressive – 71%(!) – according to a recent City of Burien survey:
Founded/Published/Edited by 3-time National Emmy Award winning Writer/Director/Journalist Scott Schaefer (BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY), a longtime Burien resident.
WINNER – FIRST PLACE GENERAL EXCELLENCE by the Society of Professional Journalists for 2019.
We are a FREE, Advertiser-supported online publication, and we LOVE to help and serve our wonderful community! We do this frequently by promoting local fundraisers and non-profit organizations, as part of our mission to help the community we live, work, play – and spend our money – in.
Our mission is:
To help make Burien a more awesome place by being the leading news media source.
To report news from a location-based perspective, that is, if it happens in/near Burien, we’ll cover it.
To cover Local News, Events, Arts, Politics and more professionally and effectively than any other website.
To inform, engage, entertain and educate our Readers using thoughtful editorial integrity.
To be deeply involved in our community, via ongoing memberships in Discover Burien, the Seattle Southside Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations that involve local businesses.
To remain pro-Burien, pro-business, and to help our fellow businesspeople market their products and services as best we can via cost-effective Advertising.
To actually do more than “just report” local News by assisting with and even holding our own Fundraisers to help our neighbors and local non-profits.
To embrace our city’s wonderful, diverse population with LOVE for all!
We have been members of the Society of Professional Journalists, which awarded us as “Best Hyperlocal Website” for a 5-stat region for two consecutive years. We are also active in LION Publishers, a national organization for Local Independent Online News websites.
Aside from Scott, our staff includes:
Theresa Schaefer, Sales Manager. Scott’s wife is the newest member of the team, having joined in April, 2012. Most recently she served as a member of the Victorinox Swiss Army Sales Management team. Theresa is a veteran sales and marketing professional – with deep customer service experience at Nordstrom – who is ready to help your business. Email her for our Media Kit.
Michael Brunk, Photographer/Technical Guru. With a love of photography that spans more than 20 years, Michael has fond memories of film but wouldn’t give up his digital SLR for anything. His checkered past includes stints as a monthly columnist for a nationally published magazine on telecommunications and technology and several years reviewing movies. He’s also been known to dabble in community theater. His main qualifications are a large camera and free time. He also builds and maintains the code that runs our sites.
Jack Mayne, Associate Publisher/Senior Reporter. Jack Mayne has done about all there is to do in print journalism. He has been city editor of the Seattle P.I. back in its glory days, edited the Journal American in Bellevue and Valley Daily News in Kent in the 1990s. Before that he was a freelance international journalist and reported from South Africa, China, visited over 80 countries and even covered a colonial war in the 20th century between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the desolate Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. He got his start at the Vancouver Province, thence to The Associated Press, becoming chief of the New England bureau, but a desire of AP to send him to Buffalo, N.Y., drove him back to Seattle. With writing for print becoming quaint and dated, he is now setting his sights on Web journalism and has written several stories for the B-Town Blog and plans many more.
Mark Neuman, Writer/Marketing: former real-world Journalist, TV Host, Producer and Marketer, Mark is an old friend of Scott’s going back to when they worked on their high school newspaper together (West Seattle High’s “Chinook”). Mark has interviewed two US Presidents, cops, cooks and cartoonists, authors and artists, senators, singers, scholars and senior citizens, along with the first Mayor of Burien and a local man running for State Superior Court.
