Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, city's oldest business, to go online-only after March 18?

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Two items of note regarding the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Chuck Taylor's Seattle Post-Times blog today:

1. Staff for a potential online-only edition were identified yesterday and today. The P-I's own article on the matter says that "The list of staffers declining to comment includes nearly all the P-I's online producers. It includes no copy editors, editorial writers, designers, or sports or features writers. Most of them are younger than 40."
2. Looks like the P-I won't be going online-only before March 18—if it does at all. (There had been some rumors flying around that the shutdown date could be even earlier.) Writes the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild's administrative officer, Liz Brown, Matt Lynch, P-I labor relations representative, "says everyone should assume that March 18 will be the last date of publication and the last date of work for most people. Remember, the WARN Act notice said the P-I would cease publication 'no sooner than March 18 and no later than April 1.'"