Governance
How this publication is run
Independent local media only works if the rules are written down. Here are ours.
Ownership
Enjoy Tacoma is independently owned and operated. No destination marketing organization, chamber of commerce, hotel group, or municipal body holds an ownership stake or editorial veto.
Funding
Enjoy Tacoma does not currently operate any advertising, sponsorship, or paid-profile revenue line. This section states the policy that would govern any future commercial relationship: every paid arrangement would be clearly labeled, and no single advertiser could exceed a quarter of quarterly revenue without disclosure on this page.
The firewall
Selling and publishing stay separate. Writers are not told who advertises, and advertisers never see or approve editorial copy. No sponsored feature is running today; should one ever publish, it would carry a Paid Partnership label in the headline area and in its URL. Rankings and recommendations are never for sale.
Conflicts of interest
Staff disclose any financial interest, family relationship, or free hospitality connected to a place we cover, and recuse themselves from covering it. We pay our own way on visits wherever practical.
Review cadence
Every published guide is re-verified at least once every twelve months. Guides that cannot be re-verified are unpublished rather than left to drift out of date.
Escalation
Disputes over accuracy, labeling, or removal requests go to the managing editor, then to the owner. Outcomes affecting published work are recorded on the corrections page.
Staff access and accepted security exceptions
Staff accounts are granted only from an invite list that an existing owner controls; nobody can grant themselves a role, choose a different role, or claim someone else's invitation. One automated scanner warning about this invite mechanism has been reviewed and intentionally accepted rather than dismissed — the reasoning, the checks performed, and the conditions that would reverse that decision are written down in our internal security exceptions record so a future audit can re-test them instead of guessing.
See also our editorial standards and corrections policy.