Editing
The Seattle Times
Ana Sofia served as an assistant features editor at The Seattle Times from 2023-2025, managing staff reporters and freelancers to cover the communities, culture, travel, music, theater, and outdoors beats. These sections published nearly 600 stories, including breaking news and deeply reported features, attracting 3.4 million unique users in 2024.
Beat Editing
Here are several stories from the sections, above, that Ana Sofia developed and edited with reporters:
Historic Idaho site is essential
to Seattle’s history
Why every Washingtonian should visit the Minidoka National Historic Site, a former WWII concentration camp in Idaho’s windswept desert.
Why Seattle’s singles events
are booming
In a postlockdown world where dating app fatigue runs rampant, Seattle offers all sorts of in-person events as creative antidotes to online dating.
VIDEO: Family finds freedom, joy in WA after fleeing anti-trans legislation in Texas
One year after leaving Austin to protect their trans daughter, this family says their difficult move to Washington was worth it.
Project Management
Among her proudest accomplishments during her time at the paper are launching and overseeing the audience-centered culture series How to Seattle, and serving as the lead editor for the Redmond and Ballard editions of the This City Block project, a series zooming in on Seattle-area neighborhoods’ pasts, presents and futures. Some highlights from these series:
How to Seattle
How locals can thrive in the cold with ‘friluftsliv’
In a city with deep Scandinavian roots and plenty of overcast winter days, here’s how locals practice “friluftsliv” to stay healthy and happy through the chill.
What to do around Seattle’s newest ‘million-dollar selfie spot’
The elevated park connects Pike Place Market with the waterfront, part of the 20-acre Waterfront Park set to fully open next year. Here’s what it’s like.
Melting the Freeze A guide to making friends, from Seattleites
Readers have plenty of advice for how to find community and build connections in a city that at times feels a little cold to newcomers.
This City Block
This Redmond radio station is helping fill the Spanish-language news gap
From a recording booth at Centro Cultural Mexicano, bilingual show “Radio Ya es Tiempo!” shares news and answers questions from the Eastside city’s residents.
Grungy, yet gentrified: What makes Ballard an enigma in Seattle
Once a blue-collar, seafaring enclave, now trendy, Ballard is in many ways a reflection of how Seattle has evolved and the challenges it faces.
Tractor Tavern, home of the Ballard sound, preserves old-school spirit
The Ballard concert venue’s Americana sounds have become synonymous with the neighborhood.
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