Staci D. Kramer
May 17, 2009 11:24 PM
Eight newspaper sites in the top 30 experienced drops in monthly unique visitors in April, according to Nielsen Online—and at least two are already protesting. The April stats and the protests were reported by Nielsen sibling E&P, which said the New York Times, whose nytimes.com was down 8 percent, and…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 15, 2009 7:20 PM
Seattle is fast becoming a testing ground for online news ventures. A group of ex-Seattle Post-Intelligencer staffers who lost their jobs when the paper went online-only last month have launched a competing local news site, Seattlepostglobe.org. Staffers are working without pay for now and the group is trying to raise…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 27, 2009 5:05 PM
It makes some sense: Cut your editorial staff by 80 percent, and there’s at least a decent chance that Web traffic will tumble. And that’s just what has happened at the new online-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Page views are down about 20 percent in the week since the newspaper killed its…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 26, 2009 7:00 AM
On Jan. 9, Hearst Newspapers President Steve Swartz flew into Seattle and told the staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that if Hearst could not find a buyer for the 146-year-old paper within 60 days, publication would cease. So, on March 10, the 60th day, we expected an announcement. The final…
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 16, 2009 1:05 PM
Only Hearst executives will ever understand why they unnecessarily put the staff of the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer through an additional week of uncertainty before finally admitting today the print edition ends Tuesday. Hearst will continue to publish seattlepi.com but it would be a mistake to think of it as the…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 10, 2009 4:56 PM
Monday was the end of the 60-day self-imposed deadline that Hearst gave on the fate of Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, and as of today, nothing yet. According to a company spokesperson, the company is still “evaluating our options…Timing of the decision is uncertain.” This despite indications that it has made job…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 6, 2009 12:40 PM
The newspaper division of Hearst, one of the most troubled in the country, is in the middle of its “100 days of change”, as we have reported before, and is now taking steps on the inevitable for its Seattle paper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It has made offers to some staffers…
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David Kaplan
Jan 9, 2009 3:43 PM
Following yesterday’s leak to a local TV station that Hearst Corp. was planning to sell or close the Seattle Post Intelligencer, the parent company has confirmed that it is seeking a buyer for the daily, the paper itself reported. The unidentified source who tipped off KING-TV yesterday about Hearst’s plans…
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