Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Fri, Nov 13, 6 a.m.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Tue, Mar 31, 6 a.m.
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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Posted Tue, Mar 17, 7:13 a.m.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Absence of Mollusk? Sure, the underwater billboards were a hoax. But Keep Clam! It was a great promotion in Ivar Haglund's classic style.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.
Circulation audit rules allow those receiving free or heavily discounted papers -- such as former P-I readers -- to be counted as paid subscribers.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 27, 4:21 p.m.
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.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 12, 6 a.m.
Despite recession, layoffs and white powder, Seattle publisher Frank Blethen is upbeat about his paper and its prospects.
MOREPosted Tue, Aug 4, 6 a.m.
The Mayor shrewdly taps the chemical industry to save Seattle's economy and its media. Who knew he was that smart?
MOREPosted Mon, Jul 13, 3 p.m.
One more bit of evidence: this year's class of Nieman Fellows has only one journalist from a major paper
MOREPosted Mon, Jun 8, 3 p.m.
The Seattle Foundation issues a major report on how to create a healthy region. So where were the reporters?
MOREPosted Wed, May 20, 1:46 p.m.
It's a sign of concern for a beloved landmark with an uncertain future.
MOREPosted Thu, May 14, 6 a.m.
The B&O tax break doesn't even pass the newspaper's own smell test for fiscal responsibility.
MOREPosted Thu, Mar 19, 6:18 p.m.
Acres of notes and other papers appear to be homeless
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