Election Night 2024

Brett Hamil is a cartoonist and comedian living in Seattle. He publishes a weekly political cartoon, Doom Loop, for the South Seattle Emerald, and produces a critically acclaimed live comedy show, Joketellers Union at the Clock-Out Lounge. He’s also the author of 3 graphic novels. 

Lauryn Bray is a writer and reporter for the South Seattle Emerald. She has a degree in English with a concentration in creative writing from CUNY Hunter College. She is from Sacramento, California, and has been living in King County since June 2022.

Lex Vaughn is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Needling, Seattle’s Only Real Fake News. She’s also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who’s reported for The Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Ryan Packer has been covering transportation and land use at The Urbanist since 2015. Their work has also appeared in the Seattle Bike Blog, BikePortland, and PubliCola. In January, they became The Urbanist’s first ever full time reporter.

Tobias Coughlin-Bogue is a Seattle journalist who has written a little bit about a lot of things, including cannabis, homelessness, city government, and French fries. Most recently, he’s been covering the 2024 elections for the South Seattle Emerald. He lives in South Park.

Established in 1974, the International Examiner (IE) is the oldest and largest nonprofit, pan-Asian Pacific American publication in the Northwest. Named after the historic and thriving multi-ethnic Chinatown International District (CID) of Seattle, the IE aspires to be a credible catalyst for building an inspiring, connected, well-respected, and socially conscious Asian Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander American (ANHPIA) community.

The Needling is Seattle’s Only Real Fake News aka the area’s premiere satirical news outlet. Its intrepid and completely unbiased reporters provide Native Seattle-area residents, newcomers, California carpetbaggers and people born here sometime in the last century earnestly inauthentic analysis of local news and culture.

The South Seattle Emerald exists to amplify and preserve the authentic narratives of South Seattle’s BIPOC and historically marginalized/misrepresented communities. The Emerald breaks news, provides vital information, and shares the arts and culture of the diverse people of the South End.

Founded in 2014, The Urbanist’s mission is to tell stories that inform and influence the public and their leaders — and win them to our vision: that the Puget Sound region’s built environment and social systems support thriving, healthy, sustainable, and just communities.

Real Change’s award-winning, weekly newspaper is written by professional reporters and sold on the streets of Seattle by self-employed vendors. For 30 years, our journalism has spotlighted the issues that impact our community. Learn more online at: realchangenews.org.

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