Editing Media in Seattle (section)

{{short description|Overview of mass media in Seattle, Washington, United States}}
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'''Media in Seattle''' includes long-established [[newspaper]]s, [[television station|television]] and [[radio station]]s, and an evolving panoply of smaller, local art, culture, neighborhood and political publications, filmmaking and, most recently, Internet media. The Seattle–Tacoma [[Media market|Designated Market Area]], as defined by [[Nielsen Media Research]], includes most of Western Washington and the [[Wenatchee metropolitan area]].<ref>{{cite map |year=2018 |title=Nielsen DMA—Designated Market Area Regions, 2018–2019 |publisher=[[Nielsen Media Research]] |url=https://thevab.com/storage/app/media/Toolkit/DMA_Map_2019.pdf |via=Video Advertising Bureau |accessdate=March 1, 2024}}</ref> {{as of|2021}}, it is the 12th largest [[List of television stations in North America by media market|television market]]<ref>{{cite web |title=2021 Nielsen DMA Rankings |url=https://oaaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/OAAA-2021-NIELSEN-DMA-Rankings-Report.pdf |publisher=[[Out of Home Advertising Association of America]] |accessdate=March 1, 2024}}</ref> and 11th largest [[List of United States radio markets|radio market]] in the United States by population.<ref>{{cite web |year=2022 |title=Radio Market Survey Population, Rankings & Information, Fall 2021 |page=1 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Arbitron/Red-Blue-Books/redbook_fa21.pdf |publisher=Nielsen Media Research |via=World Radio History |accessdate=March 1, 2024}}</ref>

Seattle has been at the forefront of new media developments since the 1999 [[World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity|protests of a meeting of the World Trade Organization]] in Seattle spurred the formation of the city's [[Independent Media Center]], which covered and disseminated the breaking news online to a worldwide audience. The location of Microsoft just outside Seattle in nearby [[Redmond, Washington|Redmond]], and the growth of interactive media companies have made Seattle prominent in new digital media.<ref name="mediapolicy.newamerica.net">Jessica Durkin, Tom Glaisyer, and Kara Hadge, [http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20110913082545/http://mediapolicy.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/program_pages/attachments/Seattle%20Case%20Study_0.pdf "An Information Community Case Study: Seattle]," Washington, DC: New America Foundation, 2010, Accessed September 9, 2010.</ref>