Luke Baumgarten
(He/Him)
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
Luke Baumgarten’s Biography
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-founded the arts nonprofit Terrain (2008) and was a founding board member of Feast World Kitchen (2019). He founded Fellow Coworking in 2013 and helped launch Treatment Creative in 2015.