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Posted Fri, Nov 13, 6 a.m.
By David Brewster
Crosscut has completed its migration to a new, nonprofit model. Here are recent developments and a case for this new media structure. And now's the time for you to become an annual member.
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Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.
By Ross Anderson
A former Seattle Times colleague wonders what happened to the libertarian provocateur who used to engage him at their adjoining office doors.
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Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
By Feliks Banel
It's been 71 years since the famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast ... and the panic that overtook a little Skagit County town.
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Posted Fri, Oct 30, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
As our Charter Membership Drive continues, a few words from a Crosscut Public Media contributor
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Posted Mon, Oct 26, 12:55 p.m.
By Bill Richards
New figures show the Times held on to two-thirds of its old rival's daily readers. But the advertising picture remains murky as the critical holiday season approaches.
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Posted Mon, Oct 19, 6 a.m.
By Michele Matassa Flores
Navigating the unemployment system is no easy task ... for people seeking jobs, hiring, or even those advising the applicants. Anybody need a professional hoop-jumper?
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Posted Fri, Oct 16, 6 a.m.
By Joann Byrd
The author of a new book on Oregon's little-remembered disaster finds some enduring truths while researching the tragedy.
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Posted Thu, Sep 17, 6 a.m.
By Bill Richards
The Seattle Times Co. is on its way back to profitability, a glowing New York Times article reported recently, but the paper's own numbers raise doubts.
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Posted Sun, Jul 12, 10:26 a.m.
By Steve Clifford
An obituary for the newspaper obit, as the Web steals another franchise by resorting to grave-robbery
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Posted Mon, Jun 29, 6 a.m.
By Bill Richards
Estimates put the sale price at $30-40 million, about a $200 million loss from the 1998 purchase price. And the Seattle company apparently has to carry unfunded pension liabilities as part of the deal.
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Posted Wed, Apr 8, 6 a.m.
By Jean Godden
A voyage to the interior of an icon
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Posted Tue, Mar 31, 6 a.m.
By Knute Berger
What to do with the P-I's neon icon? How about making it the centerpiece of a memorial to journalism itself?
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9 COMMENTS
Posted Tue, Mar 17, 7:13 a.m.
By Bruce Chapman
We're losing a live thing, a vibrant mix of good people, wisdom, wrongheaded coverage, pioneers and some hardworking suits.
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Posted Mon, Mar 16, 5:55 p.m.
By Knute Berger
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's print edition dies, and while it's a shock to Seattle's sense of specialness, a new study shows that most people don't really care whether their local daily lives or dies. The real buzz is about what's next.
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Posted Fri, Feb 27, 6 a.m.
By Daniel Jack Chasan
A feisty newspaper that carried on the Edward Abbey tradition in Moab, Utah, is closing. It's a sign, along with too much good coffee, of change in the West.
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Posted Wed, Feb 18, 6 a.m.
By Bill Richards
Even those with printer's ink in our veins need to face e-reality
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Posted Wed, Feb 4, 11:32 a.m.
By Bill Richards
Move underscores Hearst's statement that it has no interest in acquiring the rival paper. It also says it would operate a digital P-I outside the joint operating agreement with the Times.
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Posted Mon, Feb 2, 10:45 a.m.
By Bill Richards
Hearst has been working on an e-paper project for the past year. Plastic Logic, a firm working on such a product, says Hearst won't be a partner.
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Posted Fri, Jan 30, 12:28 a.m.
By Knute Berger
A Seattle City Council panel considers how to keep daily newspapers alive, as the ecosystem demands adaptation.
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Posted Tue, Jan 27, 6 a.m.
By Scott St. Clair
A practitioner of new journalism provides a no-hankies account of how journalism is changing, even if we have to live without The P-I.
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Posted Thu, Nov 12, 11:10 a.m.
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Feliks Banel
Absence of Mollusk? Sure, the underwater billboards were a hoax. But Keep Clam! It was a great promotion in Ivar Haglund's classic style.
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Posted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.
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Bill Richards
Circulation audit rules allow those receiving free or heavily discounted papers -- such as former P-I readers -- to be counted as paid subscribers.
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Posted Tue, Oct 27, 4:21 p.m.
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Chuck Taylor
Yes, the Seattle Times claims a 36 percent circulation boost since the print P-I folded. But a better calculation is before-and-after combined circulation of the dailies. By that measure, not so good.
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Posted Mon, Oct 12, 6 a.m.
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Knute Berger
Despite recession, layoffs and white powder, Seattle publisher Frank Blethen is upbeat about his paper and its prospects.
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Posted Tue, Aug 4, 6 a.m.
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Jason Shindler
The Mayor shrewdly taps the chemical industry to save Seattle's economy and its media. Who knew he was that smart?
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Posted Mon, Jul 13, 3 p.m.
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Floyd McKay
One more bit of evidence: this year's class of Nieman Fellows has only one journalist from a major paper
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Posted Mon, Jun 8, 3 p.m.
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John Hamer
The Seattle Foundation issues a major report on how to create a healthy region. So where were the reporters?
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Posted Wed, May 20, 1:46 p.m.
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Knute Berger
It's a sign of concern for a beloved landmark with an uncertain future.
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Posted Thu, May 14, 6 a.m.
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Knute Berger
The B&O tax break doesn't even pass the newspaper's own smell test for fiscal responsibility.
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Posted Thu, Mar 19, 6:18 p.m.
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Benjamin Lukoff
Acres of notes and other papers appear to be homeless
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