Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.
Both the Maine sale and some Seattle real estate put on the market fail to meet their goal of closing in 2008. This could produce a very tough January for the local daily.
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Posted Fri, Dec 19, 5:07 p.m.
Meanwhile, two other ways for the struggling company to raise cash, by selling Maine papers and Seattle real estate, are still hanging fire.
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Posted Fri, Dec 19, 6 a.m.
Some think the time is ripe to revive a New Deal program that put writers to work for the public good. Others say that's what bloggers are already doing.
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Posted Mon, Dec 8, 6 a.m.
Some would like to cut these performance audits from the state budget, supposedly saving money. Now is when we need them most.
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Posted Mon, Dec 8, 6 a.m.
The block in front of Times' headquarters is now included as part of security for the company's $91 million debt to banks. Meanwhile, the paper is scaling back features, and sale of its Maine papers may slip a key deadline.
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Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.
Dispatch from the War on Christmas: Atheists make fools of themselves in Olympia while violence breaks out at Wal-Mart. The sacred season is now a very, very sick season.
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Posted Mon, Nov 24, 6 a.m.
A deal is close for selling its Maine papers, and the company is trying to peddle some of its real estate in Seattle. Meanwhile, McClatchy, owners of nearly half of the Times Co., continue to write down its stake dramatically.
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Posted Mon, Nov 17, 1:16 p.m.
Crosscut is exploring a shift to a nonprofit model. Here's why.
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Posted Fri, Nov 7, midnight
In the wake of the historic 2008 election, a conservative blogger asks: To what degree is President-elect Obama's victory a mandate for the changes he will attempt to make?
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Posted Thu, Nov 6, midnight
A recovering campaign reporter witnesses the demise of journalistic objectivity, and wonders what will replace it.
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Posted Sat, Nov 1, 6:55 p.m.
A prominent Seattle attorney's absence is felt not just by his family, friends, and colleagues but by his yoga community, as well.
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Posted Fri, Oct 31, midnight
The Alaska governor's vetting in the media was abetted by new forms of journalism and polished by old.
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An audit report shows declining print circulation rates, but the P-I maintains its readership is strong.
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Posted Wed, Oct 22, 4:03 p.m.
For a moment, enter a parallel universe. How would the news media treat her?
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Posted Thu, Oct 16, 4:19 p.m.
The company has been trying to sell the Blethen Maine Newspapers chain since March.
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Posted Thu, Oct 16, 12:59 p.m.
Maurice Bresnahan gets the hot seat, arriving next month from South Carolina. Seattle's public-TV station is finally out of debt, but it still seems more about survival than revival.
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Posted Wed, Oct 8, 3 a.m.
While the financial crisis continues to pound pocketbooks, what isn't being addressed is our financial literacy, and how to improve it.
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Posted Sun, Sep 28, 3 p.m.
A Crosscut columnist is "exposed" on YouTube.
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Posted Sun, Sep 21, 7 p.m.
The rat-a-tat format of the KOMO-TV debate allowed the GOP gubernatorial challenger to position himself as the change agent, the pragmatic post-partisan guy.
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Posted Tue, Sep 9, 10 p.m.
Brunswick News, part of the Irving family's vast industrial holdings in Canada, is kicking the tires of Blethen Maine Newspapers, which is owned by the Seattle Times Co. The Irvings own most of the newspapers in the province of New Brunswick plus companies that do business in adjoining Maine.
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Posted Thu, Jan 1, 11:13 a.m.
The writer, perhaps the nation's leading commentator on First Amendment issues, is let go from the Village Voice
MOREPosted Wed, Dec 31, 6 a.m. 2008
The departure of the Seattle Times' art critic raises questions about how papers should adjust their budgets in covering the arts.
MOREPosted Sat, Dec 27, noon 2008
During this snow-interrupted break, are you trying to prepare me for lonely breakfasts ever after?
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 22, 4 p.m. 2008
Our author, a spelling champ in her youth, tries to explain across the generational divide
MOREPosted Sat, Dec 20, 11 a.m. 2008
From Republicans to The Stranger, everyone wants to grab a piece of crab grass.
MOREPosted Thu, Dec 11, noon 2008
So a new study finds, and so a stimulating magazine discusses.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 9, 4 p.m. 2008
The Sark Attack at Huskyville. Round 1.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 8, noon 2008
On scene with a writer in Mumbai, criticising the media.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 8, 6 a.m. 2008
If Gawker is sour on Twitter, does that mean the end of a fad is near?
MOREPosted Thu, Dec 4, 3:13 p.m. 2008
Rocky Mountain News has a lot of parallels with the Seattle situation, being part of a joint operating agreement. Another paper on the market doesn't make it easier for the Seattle Times Co. to sell its Maine papers.
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