The Center Square is pleased to announce the addition of Carleen Johnson, a staple of Seattle broadcast journalism, to its Washington state team.
Johnson will focus on state government coverage in her role with The Center Square. Her work will be shared across the state and the nation as part of The Center Square newswire service. She will also be featured on Washington in Focus, The Center Square’s weekly podcast.
Listeners can also plan to hear Johnson deliver regular updates on the news that matters most to Washingtonians on KVI radio, where she will regularly join John Carlson during his show, 6-9 a.m. weekdays.
Johnson has covered the greater Puget Sound area for more than three decades. Her career in the region includes on-air work at nearly a dozen radio stations. She joined Seattle KVI/KOMO in 1998. Since then, she has served as a news anchor on KVI and a field reporter for KOMO radio, which recently became KNWN.
“Carleen is an outstanding journalist, and her commitment to accuracy and balance will serve to further improve our reporting from Seattle, Olympia, and across the state,” Chris Krug, publisher of The Center Square, said. “At a time when news organizations are pulling back, we are building our newsroom with seasoned professionals who understand the communities they serve. Carleen knows the sources, she understands the marketplace and we are thrilled to have her on our team.”
The Center Square is the nation’s foremost source of original straight news that focuses on taxpayer-centric issues in its coverage of local, state and federal governments.
The Center Square staff has been honored with multiple awards for editorial excellence by Editor & Publisher over the past year and earned top-tier rankings from national journalism auditors such as NewsGuard as well as Ad Fontes and AllSides — each of which ranked The Center Square’s coverage among the least-biased and most trustworthy among news publishers today.
The Center Square newswire provides high-velocity news to more than 800 media outlets nationwide and today is supplementing hyper-local in-market journalism with reliable, accountable and balanced daily news coverage.
For media inquiries or further information, please contact: Laurel Abraham, vice president of development and marketing, Franklin News Foundation, labraham@franklinnews.org or 847-497-5230.
About Franklin News Foundation:
Franklin News Foundation (FNF) is a nonprofit, non-partisan news-media organization headquartered in Chicago. With a commitment to delivering reliable, unbiased news coverage, FNF operates various media properties, including The Center Square newswire service, the Illinois Radio Network, Chalkboard News and the America’s Talking Network. FNF’s national reputation for editorial excellence and its dedication to quality reporting set the organization apart in the media landscape.
