It's all over for the print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's oldest newspaper and oldest business. The March 17 edition will be its last.
Emphasis, however, on print: the P-I will live on in electronic form, though with a much smaller staff. It'll be interesting to see how it does against outfits like Crosscut.com and TechFlash. (As the New York Times hints, those—not the Seattle Times—are now its true competition.)
Good luck to the new P-I and to those who are losing their jobs, and let's hope this is the start of something good rather than the beginning of the end of local journalism.
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I think the Examiner alreasy has a good head start on the electronic PI. Too bad no money has been spent on promoting this portal.
Thank you! Of course, one major difference is that those who remain at the P-I have that as their full-time job. For most of us Examiners, this can only be a sideline. That's fine, but it means we can't devote nearly as much time to our writing as we like. I think both models are needed and wish both success.
Hey, I just ran across this video of archival photos from First Methodist. They claim to be Seattle's "oldest ongoing organization"
youtube.com/watch?v=cD1aqntQtCI
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