{"id":1088,"date":"2013-03-13T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2013-04-02T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:30:30","slug":"seth-koenig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/seth-koenig\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 52: Portland Bureau Chief for the Bangor Daily News Seth Koenig"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong> 52
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, March 9
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Seth Koenig
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A lifelong Mainer and graduate of Lisbon High School, Seth Koenig <\/a>has nearly a decade of professional journalism experience and has won numerous awards for his coverage of arts, business and ethnic diversity. In 2009,\u00a0Koenig was named Journalist of the Year by both the Maine Press Association and the New England Newspaper & Press Association, whose judges called his work \u201drefreshingly honest and compelling\u201d as well as \u201cinsightful and relevant to his community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) welcomed Portland Bureau Chief of the Bangor Daily News, Seth Koenig (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2000, while attending University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Koenig\u2019s journalism experience began with a stint as a sports reporter and columnist at a small daily called \u201cThe Recorder\u201d. \u00a0Koenig returned to Maine in 2005, where began reporting for \u201cThe Forecaster\u201d in Falmouth.\u00a0\u00a0Koenig then went on to be a reporter at \u201cThe Times Record\u201d in Brunswick, where he earned the award of Maine Journalist of the Year.\u00a0 Four months after being named Maine Press Association Journalist of the Year, Koenig of The Times Record was honored as New England Journalist of the Year by the New England Newspaper & Press Association (NENPA).<\/p>\n

On August 8, 2011, the Bangor Daily News announced it was expanding not only the territory it covers, but the depth with which it covers it. Koenig, lured away from the financially ailing Times Record in Brunswick, joined as the BDN\u2019s first time full-time reporter assigned to Maine\u2019s most populous city.<\/p>\n

Koenig\u00a0currently holds the title of Portland Bureau Chief for the Bangor Daily News.\u00a0\u00a0 Koenig lives in Durham with his wife and two sons, ages 6 and 4.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods welcomed Portland Bureau Chief of the Bangor Daily News Seth Koenig to the studio. The two discuss how social media has changed written communications, and the critical role that the press plays in our society. Koenig also discusses a few of his proudest moments in journalism, as well as who he would most like to interview, given the opportunity. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}