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The Inland Echo is a general circulation web-based publication serving Spokane and the Inland Northwest from Central Washington to the Idaho Panhandle. We have been publishing regularly since February 2008, with news archives from prior publications that date back a few years. We have recently begun to gain greater visibility in our region. The Inland Echo has thousands of readers in the Northwest and across the nation. Our territory extends from Moses Lake, Wash., to Sandpoint, Idaho, with select additional regional and national coverage, such as Seattle, Olympia, and Washington, D.C. Our primary coverage is a 177 mile long area stretching from Central Washington to the Idaho panhandle with Spokane, Wash., as its largest MSA, encompassing over 1.3 million population.
The Inland Echo is currently seeking correspondents. Get a byline on your work! We accept articles, guest editorials, photos and press releases. Please identify which category you are submitting to. All material submitted is subject to editor approval. By submitting material, the contributor grants permission to The Inland Echo to edit and publish it for indefinite worldwide distribution. There is no compensation. Contributor is responsible for all expenses associated with their journalistic activities on behalf of The Inland Echo.
Contact The Inland Echo:
For advertising, news tips, photos, or correspondent inquiries, send email to "query ~at~ inlandecho.com" (replace ~at~ with the @ symbol.)
Editor and Chief Photographer:
Michael Breckenridge - He has a degree in journalism, and has written newspaper columns, magazine articles, and books. He has been to 48 states, taking pictures and video. He has traveled through Canada and also crossed into Mexico. He has photographed celebrities, musicians, politicians, sporting events, architecture, landscapes, and wildlife on the surface of this planet, from the air, on mountaintops, deep inside caves, and under the ocean. He has acted in films, composed soundtracks, and performed live music. He has been a guest on national radio talk show Night Watch with Lowell Ponte and Roger Fredinburg. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, PR Newswire For Journalists, the National Press Photographers Association, the Online News Association, AAAS, and Newswise. His work has been circulating internationally since 1987. He is accepting commercial and private family photography work. Please visit www.michaelbreckenridge.com for more information.
Correspondents:
Jennifer Jewels - fashion journalist in Palm Beach, Florida. Please visit www.jenniferjewels.com for more information.
John Becker - writer and photographer in Davenport, Wash.
Jonah Vigil - writer and photographer in Spokane, Wash.
Gabriel Robert Young - writer and photographer in Washington, DC.
Dylan Lenz - writer and photographer in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Sean Fitzgerald - writer and photographer in Tacoma, Wash.
Janice Simeone - writer and photographer in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Kelly Green - writer and photographer in Spokane, Wash. Please visit kgphoto.synthasite.com for more information.
Lindsay Boysen - writer and photographer in Spokane, Wash.
Columnists:
Gerry Frederick - He has worked in the construction field on and off his entire life and is presently a full time home renovation contractor. He was a fishing guide for ten years during the warm season up until a few years ago. He has written newspaper columns on both flyfishing and home repair topics for seven years. He also enjoys pursuing photography. Gerry is a 50 year old grandfather and makes his home in Cranbrook, B.C., Canada.
Steven Mallory - Over the course of his sports career, he has been fortunate to work with a Triple A baseball club, play high school football and helped to establish a baseball pitching school. His ability to participate in full contact sports was cut short by a knee injury at 28. Since that time he has been limited to basketball, swimming and power walking. His passion for professional football is rooted in the 1960s when he first started following the Bears, the Steelers and the Lakers. Most of his days are filled with Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. In addition, he is a partner in a business that offers transportation to and from the airport. He devotes a lot of time to two of his grandchildren who are special-needs children. His two dogs have a way of getting some quality time too.
Otto von Stroheim - He is the founder of Tiki News, and one of the world's leading advocates of Tiki culture. He has curated Tiki art shows on the West Coast, and hosted many Tiki events nationwide. Established in 1995, Tiki News is an 84 page bi-monthly printed magazine packed full of historic and current Tiki information - the first magazine to solely cover Tiki. Please visit www.tikinews.com for more information.
Contributors:
Robert Laughlin - He is the founder of the New School of American Music. As a professional piano player, he created the One Day Workshop in 1982, a course designed to get adult students playing piano in only one day. Starting at a local college extension program, Laughlin soon found himself teaching the One Day Workshop at over 80 locations. Other workshops and prerecorded audio programs soon followed. Today there are scores of piano teachers teaching his unique system nationwide, several of his programs are translated into German for the European market, and he continues to produce new material regularly. Please visit www.pianofun.com for more information.
Richard J. Sagall, M.D. - He is a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. After completing his family practice residency at the Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, ME, he practiced family medicine and occupational medicine there for nearly 20 years. During that time he began NeedyMeds. He and his wife moved to Philadelphia where he practiced occupational medicine and grew NeedyMeds. Rich has written articles on assistance programs and occupational medicine topics for a number of publications. He has given presentations on patient assistance programs and occupational medicine throughout the country. In addition to directing NeedyMeds, he run Pediatrics for Parents, a website on children's health, and publishes Pediatrics for Parents. He lives in Gloucester, MA.
Garrin Hertel - He is the bandleader of the Inland Northwest's favorite gypsy jazz group, the Hot Club of Spokane. He is also the founder of Think SWING! Jazz and Blues Festival, a multi-venue annual music event for the appreciation of jazz and related styles, originally created to help New Orleans jazz musicians impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Think SWING! 2008 has artists coming from as far away as Sweden, New Orleans, Austin, and New York, along with regional musicians from Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, B.C, and a host of musicians who regularly grace the Spokane landscape in our home city. Concert venues include the Davenport Hotel's Marie Antoinette Ballroom, The Knitting Factory Concert House, The Spokane Masonic Center, and The Panida Theatre in Sandpoint, Idaho. Please visit www.thinkswingspokane.com for more information.
David Oxenford - He is a partner in Davis Wright Tremaine's Washington, DC office. He has represented broadcasters for over 25 years on a wide array of matters from purchases and sales of broadcast properties and the negotiation of programming agreements to regulatory matters. His regulatory expertise includes all areas of broadcast law including the FCC's multiple ownership limitations, the political broadcasting rules, EEO policy, advertising issues, and other programming matters. He also represents webcasters and other digital media companies, including serving as counsel to a webcast trade association, and representing internet radio companies on copyright, music licensing and other issues. Please visit http://www.dwt.com/lawdir/attorneys/OxenfordDavid.cfm for more information.
Guest Editorials:
Larry Pratt - He has been Executive Director of Gun Owners of America for 26 years. GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans dedicated to promoting their Second Amendment freedom to keep and bear arms. Please visit http://gunowners.org/ for more information.
Samuel J. Palmisano - He is the Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the IBM Corporation. Sam was appointed to this position on January 6, 2003. Previously, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer. He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University. In 2004, he served as co-chair of the Council on Competitiveness’ National Innovation Initiative, which authored the landmark publication, Innovate America. Please visit www.ibm.com for more information.
Diane Schuur - She is a two-time Grammy winning jazz pianist and singer with 18 albums to her name. Blind from birth, she has made her mark in the music world with her world-famous perfect pitch, her extraordinary swinging vocal style and the warmth of her personality. She has toured internationally since her debut album, "Deedles", on the GRP label in 1984. She has played and recorded with many luminaries including the Count Basie Orchestra, and has performed twice at The White House. Please visit www.dianeschuur.com for more information.
Mark Lam - He is the CEO of Live365.com. With thousands of broadcasters and millions of listeners worldwide, Live365 offers greater breadth and depth of music than any other site on the internet and is the world's largest internet radio network featuring broadcasters such as Atlanta Symphony, Pat Metheny, David Navarro, and Santana as well as many music taste makers. He has published over 50 articles in prominent journals and newspapers in Asia and the United States including the Harvard Business Review and has been invited to speak at UCLA, USC, UC Irvine and the California State Bar Education Institute as well as CES, National Assocation of Broadcasters, Global 3G Forums, and Milken Global Conference. Mark just completed "China Now", a book by McGraw Hill with Professor John L. Graham, an authority in international marketing and negotiation, on doing business in China. Please visit www.live365.com for more information.
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It was by pure coinsidence that I had the pleasure to work with Michael at one time at a website company.
It is with great pride to know him and see the fruits of his accomplishments.
I hope some of his energy rubs off on anyone reading this who thinks "there are not enough hours in the day"!!
He gets so much done and is so talented.
Patti Skirvin
Marketing Mgr.