Erica C. Barnett
Erica Barnett | |
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| Born | 1977 |
| Occupation | Blogger |
| Website | thecisforcrank |
Erica C. Barnett is a former American journalist turned blogger who covers the city of Seattle at The C Is for Crank.[1]
Career
From 1998-2001, Barnett was a senior news editor and columnist for The Austin Chronicle, and then spent two years at the Seattle Weekly before moving to The Stranger, where she served as a staff writer until 2009.[2][3] While there, she received a Civic Award from the Municipal League of King County for best government affairs reporting.[4][5] In 2011, Seattle Magazine listed her as one of Seattle's most influential people and, in 2012, Barnett launched PubliCola.com with her co-editor and co-owner Josh Feit.[6][7] She has also written for Crosscut.com and been featured on Seattle National Public Radio affiliate KUOW.[8]
Social networking site Nextdoor suspended Barnett's account in February 2016 after she published their user comments from an online townhall with Seattle's police chief on her personal website.[9] She told the technology reporting site Ars Technica it was a violation of the state public disclosure act and raised concerns with Nextdoor before her account was unblocked.[10] While writing for TheAtlantic.com later in 2016, she erroneously accused Seattle radio's Ron & Don Show of encouraging listeners to harass a city council member after a contentious sports vote eliminating the possibility of a new sports arena. The Atlantic retracted the story shortly after.[11]
Personal life
Barnett grew up in Texas and idolized Molly Ivins and Hunter S Thompson.[12] In 2009, she left a grocery store with bottle of wine she did not pay for. She took an agreement with the court to have the city dismiss the theft charges.[13] She later became sober and explained to an interviewer how her writing suffered when she was drunk.[12] Her memoir is scheduled to be published by Viking in 2020.[14]
References
- ^ "Analyzing the primary results this week". www.kuow.org. 2019-08-09. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ "Author Archives: Erica C. Barnett - The Austin Chronicle". www.austinchronicle.com.
- ^ "2007 Civic Awards Recipients — Port of Seattle Press Release". web.archive.org. July 21, 2011.
- ^ "Erica C. Barnett (and her Mad List of Sources) Joins PubliCola Staff". Seattle Met.
- ^ Barnett, Erica C.; Drew, Nancy; Savage, Dan. "In Other News..." The Stranger.
- ^ "Seattle's Most Influential People of 2011". Seattle Magazine. October 17, 2011.
- ^ "Politics website PubliCola to return". The Seattle Times. June 18, 2012.
- ^ O'Neil, Danny (May 25, 2016). "Acknowledging 'Atlantic' mistake is not an apology". MYNorthwest. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
- ^ Schlosser, Kurt (February 22, 2016). "Reporter's Nextdoor account suspended temporarily after she shares user comments from forum involving Seattle Police chief". GeekWire. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
- ^ Machkovech, Sam (February 20, 2016). "NextDoor boots reporter for reporting on police press conference". Ars Technica. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
- ^ "'Atlantic' issues correction after accusing Ron and Don of verbally attacking council member". MYNorthwest. May 24, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
- ^ a b Barnett, Erica C. (April 11, 2018). "A journalist gets sober, then hits the bars". Sound Effect (Interview). Interviewed by Gabriel Spitzer. KNKX. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
- ^ Onstat, Laura (March 17, 2019). "Stranger News Editor Erica C. Barnett took a deal this morning to". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
- ^ "Seattle journalist Erica C. Barnett is hard at work on a memoir, by Paul Constant". www.seattlereviewofbooks.com. 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2019-09-15.