Press

Sightline Institute can provide commentary, interviews, story ideas, background information, or serve as expert sources across a broad range of topics. If we can’t comment on an issue ourselves, chances are we know someone who can.  

We also recommend following our researchers’ topic-specific newsletters for your beat(s) and/or following us on social media. View recent press releases and media placements below. 

For general inquiries or to receive press releases:  

Senior Associate of Press and Social Media
Pansze Fam Bam

Journalists: Have a story you think Sightline readers should see?  

Submit it for consideration to Sightline Daily, our hand-curated roundup of climate and sustainability news for Cascadia, sent to thousands of subscribers three times a week.  

Sightline in the News

More Sightline in the News »

Recent Press Releases

  • Ranked choice voting would fix OR’s spoiler problem 

    Oregon’s past statewide and federal elections are full of spoiler candidates and non-majority winners. 

    June 6, 2024 MEDIA CONTACT: Shannon Grimes, Sightline Institute, shannon@sightline.org  FULL ARTICLE: Spoiler alert! Majority winners are no guarantee  PORTLAND, OR – Between 2010 and 2022, 31 primary and general elections for federal and statewide offices in Oregon ended without [...] Read more »

  • Election consolidation is a red-blue partisanship puzzle

    Democrats and Republicans swap scripts on the same bills depending what state they’re in — and that could be good news for reformers.

    May 28, 2024 MEDIA CONTACT: Alan Durning, Sightline Institute, alan@sightline.org  FULL ARTICLE: The Bizarre Red-Blue Politics of Election Consolidation   SEATTLE, WA – Election consolidation (moving local elections to the same November ballot as national elections) boosts turnout more than any [...] Read more »

  • Bellingham pilots parking reform in Old Town’s former scrapyard site

    The neighborhood’s newest building project has more than double the number of homes and less parking than Bellingham’s old code would have required. The rest of the city might follow suit.

    May 6, 2024 MEDIA CONTACT: Catie Gould, Sightline Institute, catie@sightline.org    FULL ARTICLE: Bellingham’s parking reform pilot pays off  SEATTLE, WA – Decision-makers in Bellingham tried a new concept for developing the city’s industrial Old Town district: they gave builders full [...] Read more »

More Press Releases »