The Seattle Medium is an African American newspaper that serves Seattle, Washington. It was founded in January 1970. Its parent company, the Seattle Medium Newspaper Group, also publishes the Seattle Metro Homemaker, the Tacoma True Citizen (Tacoma, Washington), and the Portland Medium (Portland, Oregon). Chris H. Bennett, the CEO of The Seattle Medium Newspaper Group, also owns radio stations KRIZ 1420 AM, KZIZ 1560 AM, and KYIZ 1620 AM (better known as The Z Twins), as well as the Portland station KBMS 1480 AM.
It bills itself as "the largest African American owned and operated communications company in the Pacific Northwest."
Famous quotes containing the words seattle and/or medium:
“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.”
—Vance Palmer (1885–1959)