Enterprise Stories

Recent enterprise stories selected by Managing Editor Suki Dardarian.

  1. Seniors For Sale

    By Michael J. Berens; 12/30/2011

  2. The slaying of four Lakewood police officers

    By Seattle Times Staff; 11/29/2009

  3. The fastest-growing group among local homeless: families

    By Lornet Turnbull; 8/28/2010

  4. Seattle Times special report: Twisted ethics of an expert witness

    By Ken Armstrong and Maureen O'Hagan; 6/25/2011

  5. State still seeks winning strategy against childhood obesity

    By Maureen O'Hagan; 6/11/2011

  6. Dreamliner's woes pile up

    By Dominic Gates; 12/18/2010

  7. Lender seizes desperate borrowers' homes

    By Christine Willmsen; 11/13/2010

  8. Two lives lost, a third forever changed

    By Sonia Krishnan; 1/23/2010

  9. When NFL players dive for a loose ball, what happens in the pile stays in the pile

    By Danny O'Neil; 12/7/10

  10. Pier 86 is a little less crowded, a lot more cozy: An illustrated journal of life in the Puget Sound region

    By Gabriel Campanario; 7/8/11

  11. Best of the Northwest: The Seattle Times' 20th annual ranking of the region's top public companies for 2010 and the last two decades

    By Jon Talton; 6/28/11

Definition

Enterprise reporting describes published news reports that are not based on press releases or news conferences. Enterprise reporting is all about stories a reporter or an editor dig up on his or her own, often what some people might call "scoops." Enterprise reporting may also focus on events, but it usually goes beyond merely covering these events when reporters explore the forces shaping the events.

Through enterprise reporting a news organization demonstrates its understanding of the key issues and interests of its community and it demonstrates the extent of the skill of its staff to report on these matters.