Seattle Post-Intelligencer To Go Web-Only Wednesday

[babylonsister]

Last edition of print P-I set for Tuesday, Hearst says

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will publish its last edition Tuesday.

By Eric Pryne


The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the city's oldest newspaper, will roll off the presses for the last time Tuesday, its owner said today.

The Hearst Corp. also said it will keep the the P-I alive online "as a new type of digital business with a robust, community news and information Web site at its core."

P-I Publisher Roger Oglesby said in an interview that the online venture would have a professional news staff of about 20 or 25. The vast majority of the P-I's 167 employees, almost all in news, will lose their jobs.

Hearst Newspapers President Steven Swartzsaid in a prepared statement that the site also would have "new columns from prominent Seattle residents; more than 150 reader blogs, community data bases and photo galleries." It also will link to other local Web sites and blogs, he added.

The demise of the print P-I had been widely anticipated since Jan. 9, when Hearst executives said they would put the paper up for sale for 60 days. If no buyer emerged, they said, the print P-I would be shut down.

No serious buyer emerged, Oglesby said.

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[LisaM]

1. So sad.....

Just a perfect storm of media-consolidation, people who stopped subscribing to papers, and loss of advertising revenue. I guess some people don't read newspapers and don't care, but I am really sorry about this.

[greenkal]

2. Thieves!

They took my money for a subscription, and it doesn't look like I'll be getting it. I paid for in November, and I haven't even gotten the first paper yet.