Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Last Seattle PI, now over to something with the same name on the web
by Larry Geller
From folks close to the Seattle PI, the beginning of an article written by reporter Eric Pryne of the Seattle Times:
The last deadline: Seattle's oldest newspaper goes to press for the final time
The P-I, a civic institution that traces its roots to the Civil War, published its last print edition this morning, dropping Seattle from the dwindling ranks of two-newspaper towns.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer today goes where no newspaper its size has gone before: entirely online.
The P-I, a civic institution that traces its roots to the Civil War, published its last print edition this morning, dropping Seattle from the dwindling ranks of two-newspaper towns.
Its owner, The Hearst Corp., said the P-I's legacy would survive on a revamped seattlepi.com Web site, but one produced with a small fraction of the reporting staff and which relies on content from other sources. Executives expressed hope it eventually will accomplish something the print P-I hadn't done since the 1990s: make money.
I’m going to leave it at that, check out the links above.
Oh, one more comment. The Seattle PI web page has been a good one. For some time, they have even included their comics on the web. That tells me that they have a special place for their readers in their hearts.
Yes, a newspaper needs to make money, but don’t we also believe that our newspapers are there for us?
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