Knute "Skip" Berger is an American journalist, writer and editor based in Seattle, Washington.

Berger is a columnist for Crosscut.com

Crosscut.com

Crosscut.com is a nonprofit, online newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Crosscut's stated purpose is to "produce journalism in the public interest"...

, writing under the name "Mossback". He is also editor at large and a columnist for Seattle magazine, author of Pugetopolis, and former longtime editor of the Seattle Weekly

Seattle Weekly

Seattle Weekly is a freely distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded by Darrell Oldham and David Brewster as The Weekly...

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His writing focuses on Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is a region in northwestern North America, bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains on the east. Definitions of the region vary and there is no commonly agreed upon boundary, even among Pacific Northwesterners. A common concept of the...

subjects including heritage, culture, politics and historic preservation.