The black and white photograph from 1965 shows a 4-year-old me standing in our front yard, hand on hip, smiling and holding up a rolled-up… Continue reading
No one was surprised that I became a journalist. I’ve loved writing for as long as I can remember. When I was in third grade,… Continue reading
I've been a media junkie since childhood and got my first daily newspaper job, covering high school sports, when I was 17. I was terrible!… Continue reading
I’ve been reading The Herald for about as long as I can remember. Well, the sports section that is. My grandfather was an avid newspaper… Continue reading
As an Everett kid in the 1990s, I wanted to be the next Alex Rodriguez. Or at least Joey Cora. But I couldn't hit a… Continue reading
Ben evokes a variety of opinions from those in The Herald newsroom. See what they are saying. Support Ben and the newsroom with a subscription… Continue reading
In college, I learned three things about myself. One, I wanted to write for a living. Two, without a firm deadline, I never finish anything.… Continue reading
In February 2004, the Everett Silvertips and I were in the midst of our inaugural seasons. I was hired by the Daily Herald the previous… Continue reading
In the spring of 2019, I emailed The Daily Herald’s local news editor Eric Stevick regularly, probably excessively, asking about internship opportunities in the Herald’s… Continue reading
I can’t remember what all I brought with me my freshman year at Washington State University. I do know I had a spanking new Merriam-Webster… Continue reading
Wind howled and rain drizzled as a group of volunteers clustered beneath a concrete overpass near an Everett homeless shelter. Equipped with laptops and mobile… Continue reading
I realized that journalism was the path for me during a Spokane City Council meeting in 2015. For one of my early journalism courses at… Continue reading
I’ve always called Snohomish County home. I grew up here and graduated from Marysville Pilchuck High School in 2009. I then attended Everett Community College… Continue reading
Here was the plan: Go to graduate school, then get job teaching English literature. All these years later, I’m not a tenured professor at the… Continue reading
I wasn’t the one with the paper route; that was my younger brother who delivered the Everett Herald — six days a week, then —… Continue reading
I got hooked on journalism while at a state mental hospital in the early 1980s. From the outside, it was gothic and foreboding. Inside were… Continue reading
Meet Ian Davis-Leonard, our newest staff member. Ian grew up in Everett, attended Everett High School and graduated this spring from Gonzaga University where he… Continue reading
