Founded in 2005 by the wife and husband team of Tracy Record and  Patrick Sand, the <a href="http://www.westseattleblog.com" target="_blank">West Seattle Blog</a> is easily one of the most watched,  talked about and celebrated hyperlocal news sites in the country. <strong>It  epitomizes the idea of “regular people” working amazingly hard to cover  everything that moves in their community.</strong>

Record, who handles content, was a pioneer in digital news at the  <a title="Walt Disney Internet Group" href="http://corporate.disney.go.com/wdig/" target="_blank">Walt Disney Internet Group</a> and<a title="KOMO" href="http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resources/komo-tv-and-radio/"> KOMO-TV</a>. She quit her job as news  director at KCPQ-TV to work more than full time for WSB. Patrick, who  handles sales, has been in ad sales for more than 25 years and was also a  pioneer in Internet advertising. They list their content collaborators  as EVERYONE in West Seattle.