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Pandemic, protests, presidential politics: Inside a local newsroom with Michele Matassa Flores Seattle Times Executive Editor

Saturday, March 20, 2021
10:00AM - 12:00PM

Online: Zoom Meeting Join us! To attend this free presentation, please register here: [url=https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvduurqDksHdFaRrWW6eVH6FV08Gs-99Yl]https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvduurqDksHdFaRrWW6eVH6FV08Gs-99Yl[/url]

Pandemic, protests, presidential politics: Inside a local newsroom Michele Matassa Flores Seattle Times Executive Editor

National headlines might come to mind when we think about the past historic news year, but local stories were plentiful and huge. Michele Matassa Flores, executive editor of The Seattle Times, will talk about newsroom coverage of the year which began in January with the nation’s first confirmed case of COVID-19. As executive editor, Matassa Flores is responsible for the news content of both the newspaper and seattletimes.com. She’ll talk about how they had to adapt to new challenges, face dangers and rethink coverage. Matassa Flores has been The Seattle Times Executive Editor since 2019. In 2020, the newspaper won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX.

Seattle Magazine named her as one of Seattle’s 25 most influential people in 2020. She also has worked at Crosscut, the Puget Sound Business Journal and the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon. A graduate of the University of Oregon, she lives in West Seattle.