News, we like to tell young journalists trying to decide what’s newsworthy — and perhaps more important, what isn’t — is the exceptional. Something unexpected, outside the norm.
Example: You can write a story about 68,000 folks arriving safely at work at Boeing on a Tuesday, but the one guy who flipped his Tesla on the Mukilteo Speedway is going to make the newspaper.
That thought came ringing back recently with an interesting CDN story about the flagging memberships of local
![](https://www.cascadiadaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Newspaper_Filled_In-300x300.png)
Try us out
Enjoy 24 hours of unlimited digital access to CascadiaDaily.com for just $1!
Unlock the paywall
Millions spent to reduce solitary confinement in Washington produces few visible results