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EmailThe news that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's last day as a print newspaper would be March 17, 2009, set the wires humming. Now the headlines are about those who are surviving, such as this bit of news about reporter Eric Nalder, who will move up in the Hearst ranks.
Earlier in the week we closed out the last-day coverage here with a link from P-I editorial cartoonist David Horsey, writing about his globe-trotting.
More:
Seattle Weekly offers up a special cocktail for the occasion.
A classic from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Wikipedia was updated the minute the news was public, and again in order to make the P-I entry start with the new description of it as "an online newspaper."
P-I Reporter Mike Lewis does it with humor, history — and love. His lead:
They drank and detonated, married and remarried, and remarried. They smoked pot on the roof, ushered women into the newsroom and, much later, cigarettes and booze out. They swore and typed and quit and typed and rescinded and typed and risked their lives, jobs and relationships for the pleasure, pressure and paycheck earned from a daily newspaper.
Seattle Times on the 'Last deadline' of its rival.
'Who feared us?' by P-I Managing Editor David McCumber.
'Memories' links in the P-I.
Joel Connelly on the online future.
Eli Sanders on SLOG.
From Monday:
The P-I itself had this to say.
The Seattle Times weighed in.
Jack Shafer, Press Box columnist at Slate.
From the Society for News Design.
From the New York Times.
From Daily Beast.
From longtime P-I columnist Jon Hahn's Newsosaur blog.
Bloomberg's Greg Bensinger.
Phuong Le at Huffington Post.
A McClatchy reporter interviews Sen. Patty Murray. Her brother worked at the P-I.
Media Watch at Real Clear Politics.
Puget Sound Business Journal's Greg Lamm filed this story.
Editor & Publisher pulled these remarks into one piece.
SLOG posted the news here and will be updating.
From Gawker.
Stay tuned for updates.
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Comments:
Posted Mon, Mar 16, 3:19 p.m. Inappropriate
I guess that explains why I got a call from the billing department asking me to pay for the issues I have received since my subscription lapsed in January (just as Hearst announced the sale, by the way; talk about poor timing). I asked what would happen when the print edition stopped coming, and the person cheerfully informed me that I would automatically start received The Seattle Times.
Posted Mon, Mar 16, 4:09 p.m. Inappropriate
Here's the Weekly's take: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/03/new_p-i_site_promises_more_kit.php
In her announcement of a revamped Seattle P-I Web site, Michelle Nicolosi gives us a few tantalizing hints of what's to come. First, as our Mark D. Fefer predicted, more inane slide shows of adorable pets, delectable starlets, and wire photos of important world events--without actual stories attached to them.
Says Nicolosi, "Readers are also interested in photo galleries for all kinds of news and features. Our daily news of the world photo gallery is one of the most popular features on SeattlePI.com."
Posted Tue, Mar 17, 8:10 a.m. Inappropriate
I learned to read from the P.I.s excellent comic strip page while my old man was in Korea keepin' the Red menace away from our shores.. They had Smokey Stover.. and the Teeny Weenies.
My maternal grandmother Helen Maring Samsel wrote hundreds, perhaps thousands of inspirational poems for the P.I. that were used to fill out short columns.
Ted Samsel
Posted Wed, Mar 18, 9:46 a.m. Inappropriate
I've spoken about the P-I on their sites and mine. Two important things to note. One, Phuong Cat Le's printed in the HuffPo, but it's an AP piece. Two, she's a P-I veteran basically quoting former colleagues with whom she shared beats. Her employment history and potential conflicts are not mentioned. That's forgivable. What's not is that she was among the worst reporters ever to work at the P-I and among the worst ever to work in the AP-Seattle bureau. That she is employed while dozens of her former colleagues are not is almost criminal.