{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox website | name = The SunBreak | location = Seattle, Washington | country = United States | language = English | foundation = 2009 | website = [http://www.thesunbreak.com The SunBreak] }} {{Italic title}} '''''The SunBreak''''' is an online magazine in Seattle, Washington, founded in September 2009 by Michael van Baker, formerly an editor for ''Seattlest''.<ref>{{citation|publisher=Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism|title=Seattle: A New Media Case Study |work=State of the News Media 2011|author=Michael R. Fancher|year=2011|url=http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2011/mobile-survey/seattle-a-new-media-case-study/}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=Welcome SunBreak to Seattle|date=September 3, 2009|work=Central District News|url=http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/2009/09/welcome-sunbreak-to-seattle/}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=New media ventures blossom in Seattle|author=Monica Guzman|date=March 15, 2010|newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/New-media-ventures-blossom-in-Seattle-898829.php#page-2}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=Here comes The SunBreak, a New Yorker-style online magazine | author=John Cook |date=September 3, 2009 | work=TechFlash | publisher=Puget Sound Business Journal | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2009/09/editor_looks_to_create_a_new_yorker_style_online_mag_for_seattle.html}}</ref>
''The SunBreak'''s coverage of a 2011 bicyclist fatality was noted by major conventional media outlets ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' and KPLU News.<ref>{{citation|title=Seattle bike deaths spur safety questions, highlight funding woes|author=Vanessa Ho | newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | date=September 14, 2011|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Seattle-bike-deaths-spur-safety-questions-2169366.php}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=City mourns popular barista, questions bike path's safety|author=Bellamy Pailthorp|date=September 9, 2011|publisher=KPLU-FM|url=http://www.kplu.org/post/city-mourns-popular-barista-questions-bike-paths-safety}}</ref> ''SunBreak'' is listed as a significant media outlet for Cascade Bicycle Club's bicycle advocacy campaigns.<ref>{{citation|title=2012 press archive|publisher=Cascade Bicycle Club|url=http://www.cascade.org/about-press-coverage/2012-press-archive}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Official website|http://thesunbreak.com/}}
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