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Luke Baumgarten

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Spokane
As seen in: RANGE Media
Covers:  Interested in anything impacting people in Spokane, WA & the Inland Northwest. Those impacts can be local, state or national. They can be governmental, cultural or otherwise. Also journalism models.
Doesn't Cover: If you're going to pitch me, have an angle relevant to the Inland Northwest or reshaping the journalism industry toward greater equity and/or worker power.
Writer & organizer. @RANGEmedia4all, Spokane Workers Coop, @WorkAtFellow, Treatment, @terrainspokane. Support local news rangemedia.co

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Luke is a journalist, organizer and life-long Spokanite who has spent his career telling stories, building community and working to make the region more just and livable for all of our neighbors.

Seeking a more equitable model of business and a more just life for workers, he founded RANGE, a worker-owned local newsroom, in 2020. In 2021, he co-founded the Spokane Workers Cooperative, a holding company designed to scale cooperative ownership as efficiently as possible.

Prior to that, Luke co-f…

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We’ll see you in court

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By Luke Baumgarten
| RANGE Media
A lot of people have reached out to me and other members of the RANGE crew with questions and words of comfort following Alex Duggan’s story about the attempt to compel Erin Sellers to testify at the trial of the Spokane 3 — a move that every reporter dreads, and one we chose to fight.
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¿Por qué investigamos a Latinos en Spokane?

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By Luke Baumgarten
| RANGE Media
El día que Erin Sellers me comentó que algunas fuentes de información la contactaron para hablar sobre una cultura laboral tóxica en Latinos en Spokane, fue aproximadamente una semana después de que la directora ejecutiva de esa organización, Jennyfer Mesa, se acercó a mí en una reunión de una junta en la que ambas participábamos y, con lágrimas en los ojos, me agradeció por los informes que nuestro equipo en RANGE había estado haciendo.
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Why we investigated Latinos en Spokane

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By Luke Baumgarten
| RANGE Media
The day Erin Sellers told me sources had approached her about a toxic work culture at Latinos en Spokane, it was about a week after that organization’s Executive Director, Jennyfer Mesa, walked up to me at a meeting of a board we both sat on, and, with tears in her eyes, thanked me for the reporting our team at RANGE had been doing.
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How is social media changing news?

Making us dependant on platforms we don't control (bad), but that's forcing us to shape our businesses to meet readers where they are (good)

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Journalism generally is how we understand our world and each other. News is a sacred duty to carry the concerns of community to the powerful.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email w/ enough personalization to demonstrate you understand who I am, what RANGE is, and how your pitch meaningfully impacts our readers.

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