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Michelle Malkin’s journey from ideas to tribes

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.

A former Seattle Times colleague wonders what happened to the libertarian provocateur who used to engage him at their adjoining office doors.

When Martians invaded Concrete

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.

Why I support Crosscut

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

Crosscut's new approach

Posted Thu, Oct 29, 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.

Seattle Times circulation grows on P-I's demise

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.

It's like a full-time gig

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?

Calamity: Timeless lessons from the 1903 Heppner Flood

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.

Black and white (or is it red?) all over

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.

Humor: Another fatal blow to newspapers

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

For the Seattle Times, relief is not spelled M-A-I-N-E

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.

The Globe and I

Posted Wed, Apr 8, 6 a.m.

By Jean Godden

A voyage to the interior of an icon

As the Globe turns

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?

The P-I: Saying goodbye to a liberal voice

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.

What if a newspaper folded and nobody cared?

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.

A desert town's dusty soul

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.

Time to say goodbye to print newspapers

Posted Wed, Feb 18, 6 a.m.

By Bill Richards

Even those with printer's ink in our veins need to face e-reality

Hearst skips final option payment to Seattle Times

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.

UPDATED: Could the next P-I be electronic, and on a plastic sheet?

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.

Save the media dinosaurs!

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.

Hang it up, Hearst

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.

Other media

Cost cutting leads to hefty jump in profits at Washington Post Co. Advertising, including Web advertising, continues to fall, but cost cutting at properties, including the Everett Herald, are putting the company back in the black.

NEW YORK TIMES

Canada's conservative daily, National Post, may shut down The Toronto-based paper is part of the CanWest media empire, now struggling with bankruptcy

NEW YORK TIMES

The death of newspapers is being exaggerated The declinists overlook some facts: We're in a recession; 2008 was an unusually strong year due to the elections; and papers have found a formula for making money again - cut costs and raise rates.

SLATE

Tacoma News Tribune readership up 8% The 2008 gain stemmed from more online readers as the TNT's print circulation fell. The increase in readers was the 6th highest among U.S. daily newspapers.

NEWS TRIBUNE (TACOMA)

The tribulations of Seattle Post Globe Former P-I reporter Keri Murakami is the full-time staff of one at this Internet news operation. It ain't easy.

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW

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The fine print in the Times' good-news numbers

Posted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.

by 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.

The real Seattle circulation figures

Posted Tue, Oct 27, 4:21 p.m.

by 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.