Seattle Times Co. at a glance
Newspapers and Web sites in the northern corners of the U.S.
By Chuck Taylor
Posted on April 7, 2008. Printed on September 7, 2008.
http://www.crosscut.com/seattle-newspapers/13211/
The Seattle Times Co. was founded through acquisition in 1896 by Alden J. Blethen, who was recently of Minneapolis and had been reared in Maine. The Seattle-area Blethen family has held the controlling interest of the company ever since. In modern times, 49.5 percent of the voting stock has been held by an outside company — first Knight Ridder, now McClatchy of Sacramento.
The Seattle Times Co. has been headquartered in the South Lake Union neighborhood since 1931, but no papers are printed there. In 1992, the company opened a printing plant in suburban Bothell.
Holdings
| Washington | Daily Circulation |
| The Seattle Times | 215,311 / 420,587 Sunday |
| Yakima Herald-Republic | 36,392 |
| Walla Walla Union-Bulletin | 13,701 |
| NWsource.com | |
| NWclassifieds.com | |
| The Issaquah Press | |
| Sammamish Review | |
| Newcastle News | |
| Rotary Offset Press | |
| Maine (for sale) | Daily Circulation |
| Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram | 69,884 / 108,842 Sunday |
| Kennebec Journal (Augusta) | 14,215 |
| Morning Sentinel (Waterville) | 18,722 |
| MaineToday.com | |
| Coastal Journal |
Chuck Taylor is editor of Crosscut.