Paige Cornwell is the lead breaking news reporter for The Seattle Times. 

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She has spent the past year on the Times' Boeing team focused on the January 2024 Boeing 737 MAX blowout, the company's Machinists strike and the regional impact of Boeing's fallout and quest for recovery. 

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In 2020, she was among the first local reporters to cover the spread of coronavirus in the U.S., starting at Life Care Center of Kirkland, the site of the nation's first known outbreak. As a core member of the Times' COVID-19 team, she focused on aging adults, long-term care and caregiving. She was the recipient of two aging-focused fellowships for her work. 

 

She was a member of the Seattle Times reporting team that won the 2015 Pulitzer for breaking news for its coverage of the deadly landslide in Oso, Wash., that killed 43 people.

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She started her career at The Seattle Times as a night reporter, then covered K-12 education and the Eastside. 

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She is HEFAT certified and served as an adjunct professor for three Bethel University journalism classes that traveled to Kaithal, India in January 2020 and January 2024 and Antigua, Guatemala in 2022 to produce magazines focused on social justice issues. 

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In 2020 she created and coordinated the Journalist Furlough Fund, which raised $100,000 for journalists financially impacted by the pandemic. 

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She holds a Bachelor's of Journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Graduate Certificate in Gerontology from the University of Washington. As a student, she interned at VICE, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Lincoln Journal Star, and was a reporting fellow at USA Today: College. She also attended the New York Times Student Journalism Institute in Tucson, Arizona. 

 

She grew up in Kansas City, Kan., but could see Missouri from her house. 

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