Seattle Post-Intelligencer To Become Web-Only Newspaper

[Purveyor]

Source: MARKETWATCH

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, owned by The Hearst Corp., will stop publishing its print edition and become a Web only news site, the newspaper said Monday.

The last print edition of the paper will be published on Tuesday.

Hearst said the P-I will become the nation's largest daily newspaper to shift entirely online.

Read more: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Seattle-Post-Inte...

[LuckyLib]

1. And after a long week at work in front of a computer screen, it will be so gratifying

to take your laptop to the local coffee shop on Saturday morning and kick back to read the news.

[FVZA_Colonel]

2. Well, everyone up here pretty much knew this was coming.

It doesn't make it any less tragic though.

[Pyrzqxgl]

3. I remember the paper man on the corner by the bus station when I was a kid

yelling "STAR, TIMES, P.I., UNION RECORD, paper" Seattle had 4 newspapers when I was a kid. Now I think
it's only the Times.

[tomm2thumbs]

4. trees are sighing in relief n/t

[OnyxCollie]

5. Since I live in Ohio,

I wasn't about to get a hard copy of the Post-Intelligencer anyway.

I'm just glad it's still around, as I found it helpful in my research on US Attorney John McKay.

[uppityperson]

6. k&r, this is very sad. More from the PI...

The PI was the more liberal of the 2 Seattle papers as far as reporting news went. It is sad that newspapers are shutting down as this will limit the amount and type of news that gets out. If everyone takes the story off AP or some other place, then all we get is the same story from the same place.

RIP PI, you shall be missed.

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/403793_piclosure17.ht...

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will roll off the presses for the last time Tuesday, ending a 146-year run.

The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the newspaper, Seattle's oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers. The company, however, said it will maintain seattlepi.com, making it the nation's largest daily newspaper to shift to an entirely digital news product.

"Tonight we'll be putting the paper to bed for the last time," Editor and Publisher Roger Oglesby told a silent newsroom Monday morning. "But the bloodline will live on."

In a news release, Hearst CEO Frank Bennack Jr. said, "Our goal now is to turn seattlepi.com into the leading news and information portal in the region."...(more)

Letter to Readers
http://blog.seattlepi.com/whatsnew/archives/164244.asp

Dear Readers,

As you no doubt have heard, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper is ceasing publication, starting tomorrow. As you likely have also heard, seattlepi.com -- read by more than 4 million people in Seattle and around the world every month -- will continue to bring you the latest news and information, entertainment reports, opinion, community conversation and more.

Seattlepi.com will continue to cover city hall, crime, courts, real estate, development, education, transportation and more. When a snowstorm hits, we'll be here to help you figure out which busses are running, and which streets to avoid. When Microsoft or Boeing makes a move, we'll tell you about it on our Microsoft and Boeing blogs. Jim Moore and Art Thiel will both continue to bring you their take on the latest in sports twice a week. Joel Connelly will still be here to give you his views on the political scene, and David Horsey will continue to cartoon and blog for you.

We're also adding some new features we haven't had before, including new @home and health articles from Hearst magazines including Cosmopolitan, Country Living, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, House Beautiful, Marie Claire, Popular Mechanics and Redbook.

We've got a lot of great ideas in the works, and many new features we'll be rolling out in the next few months. I hope you'll pardon our dust for the next few weeks as we launch our new digital news and information Web site. Keep an eye on this blog for updates on the changes we'll be making as we go forward. And please share your comments on how you think we're doing, and what we can do to better serve your needs. You can also message me on Twitter at twitter.com/nicolosi.

If you're interested in more details on what we'll be doing going forward, see a longer explanation here.

Thanks much,

Michelle Nicolosi

[No Elephants]

14. Yes, and we all know about AP and Fournier.

[L. Coyote]

7. Boycott killing trees. Don't buy print papers!!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. The computer requires petroleum in its manufacture. nt

[No Elephants]

15. Yes, to hell with real news, unless it comes from a wire service.

[ramapo]

8. Do I need a computer at my breakfast table?

I don't know if the PI is (was) a morning publication but I assume so. I've started just about everyday of my past 45 years or so (since I was seven...yes I was a strange kid) with reading the paper while having my breakfast.

I see a Kindle in my near future because I think before too long, the paper part of the newspaper will be history.

[musiclawyer]

9. I still think there will be superpapers

......... print on weekends only. Perhaps 3 or 4 that are part of a consortium with some smaller papers. Monthly fee required. If you really want the fourth estate to exist, you're gonna need to pay at some point. It takes money to afford professional investigative reporters. My bet is on the NY times to survice as well as the LA Times as consortium leaders.

[struggle4progress]

10. Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper goes Web-only (AP)

By PHUONG LE – 6 hours ago

... The last print edition began rolling off the presses at a suburban printing plant shortly after 10 p.m. Monday. The front page featured a headline saying, "You've meant the world to us," and a photo of the 30-foot neon globe atop the P-I's building, which has a slogan rotating around the equator saying, "It's in the P-I." ...

Seattle follows Denver in losing a daily newspaper this year. The Rocky Mountain News closed after its owner, E.W. Scripps Co., couldn't find a buyer. Staffers plan to start an online news publication if they can get 50,000 paying subscribers by April 23 — what would have been the News' 150th anniversary.

In Arizona, Gannett Co.'s Tucson Citizen is set to close Saturday, leaving one newspaper in that city. And last month Hearst said it would close or sell the San Francisco Chronicle if the newspaper couldn't slash expenses in coming weeks ...

Four newspaper companies, including the owners of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and The Philadelphia Inquirer, have sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in recent months ...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iXSVW...

[Blue_Tires]

12. very tragic

i can only hope for a return when things become sunny again...as a former newspaper reporter, this really depresses me (and i've never even been to Seattle nor read the P-I regularly)

[No Elephants]

13. These closings are getting terrifying. UPI, AP and Reuters are going to control all our news. And

i doubt liberals will be controlling them, unless someone like Buffet or Soros steps us.