The Seattle Post-Intelligencer owner is floating seemingly contradictory arguments about newspaper business decisions in a lawsuit here against the Seattle Times Co. and in another, unrelated action...
Financial figures disclosed by old and new minority owners show a big gap in the market valuation of the Seattle Times Co. That could be a factor when arbitration starts over the future of the Times a...
When the closed-door showdown between Seattle's dailies begins, P-I owner Hearst has a legal bombshell: a sworn deposition by a former Times circulation vice president who says the paper violated the...
The company is suing a union, saying the sale of three newspapers in Maine won't happen if the buyer must inherit a labor agreement. The proceeds of a sale are urgently needed to satisfy lenders, the...
The search for a buyer of the Seattle Times Co.'s Blethen Maine Newspapers chain of three dailies has narrowed to three possible purchasers, but the only organization to openly declare its interest...
Last week, minority shareholder McClatchy, the Sacramento newspaper chain, said it was willing to sell its not-quite-half slice of the Seattle Times. So how did a locally controlled Northwest...
According to McClatchy, its 49.5 percent stake in the Washington and Maine newspaper company is worth a mere $9.9 million. While that figure signifies little, the fact it keeps shrinking is a bad sign...
If the Seattle Times Co. can't sell its Maine subsidiary, the consequences could be severe — including closure of three of that state's biggest dailies and loan default for the parent company...