Written by Renton has just gained an additional professional news source. The Renton Patch www.renton.patch.com went live yesterday, and the online newspaper promises new professionally-written stories about Renton everyday. In addition, the Renton Patch will incorporate contributions from a cadre of paid columnists and free-lance writers, who will submit stories on a variety of topics related to living in Renton.
The Renton Patch is one cell of a national “Patch” system, which creates online newspapers in communities throughout the US using a common format. Each individual community cell has a professional journalist overseeing the website, and contributing his or her own stories on a daily basis.
The Renton Patch is being edited and managed by professional journalist Jenny Manning (photo from www.renton.patch.com)
Renton’s Patch page is being managed/edited by a professional journalist named Jenny Manning. Ms. Manning has already become a fixture at city events, and she can be found all over town investigating stories and taking pictures. She has met with city council members and the mayor, and is catching up to many other local decision makers as she gets oriented in her new role. Ms. Manning’s bio can be found here . She resides in an apartment at the Landing, and she’ll work from her computer on-site where news is happening, and in local coffee shops, restaurants, libraries and other locations where people get together. (As a virtual newspaper, there is no brick-and-mortar office.)
The Renton Patch joins Renton Reporter and Renton Magazine as professional news sources dedicated entirely to our city. We also get coverage as part of the region from Seattle Times and Seattle PI, KOMO, KIRO KING5, and other specialty journals like The Business Report.
And thanks to the internet, there are a variety of blogs (like this one), facebook pages, and other internet sites that also cover Renton events.
Citizens of a community benefit when the number of information sources increase. It’s healthy to have more reporters looking for news, and more perspectives on big events when they occur.
Be sure you visit the Renton Patch and leave your comments. And if you run across Jenny Manning please welcome her into our community and thank her for her contribution to the flow of information.
I’ve noticed a significant uptick in the investigative reporting done at the Renton Reporter in the last month – competition from Patch.com has been good!
Susan Bressler has joined Patch.com as well.
Thanks, Ben! I have!
Is the Renton Reporter still published? I’ve never been able to get the hamster cage liner successfully delivered to my home.
Consider yourself lucky – they collect in soggy piles in front of most houses around here. I think they deliver to doghouses just to keep the circulation numbers up.