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Posted Dec. 28, 2006 at 4:54 pm by Mike Seely

On January 21, the King County Journal will print its final edition. The big winners in this shuttering: The Seattle Times, which has this news blared across the top of its website right now and whose regional editions stand to pick up many, if not most, of the KC Journal's remaining subscribers. The big losers: longtime Eastsiders/former Journal-American subscribers like my grandparents. When I visited them over Christmas, my grandmother was lamenting how the King County Journal — a consolidation of the South King Co. & Eastside Journals — no longer provided enough Eastside-specific coverage and that she was considering switching to a Times' subscription as is. This oughta get her over the hump.

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Posted June 19, 2006 at 2:07 pm by

King County Journal Newspapers is for sale, the parent company said today. A broker has been engaged to sell the suburban-Seattle chain by the end of the year, according to President and CEO Peter Horvitz, whose family-owned Horvitz Newspapers owns the 41,000-circulation daily King County Journal, the weekly Mercer Island Reporter and Snoqualmie Valley Record, and seven other newspapers distributed twice a month. The company declined to provide an estimated worth for the properties.

Horvitz has been forced to impose a lot of cost-cutting in recent years. The obvious next question is whether McClatchy, which owns four papers in the state, including the News Tribune in Tacoma, and owns half of three others, including The Seattle Times, might be an interested buyer. (See "A New Co-Owner for The Seattle Times," March 15.)

"We wanted to make this a very public process so that our employees knew about this first, so we are just really beginning the process of approaching companies," Horvitz said in an interview. "There is no frontrunner. I have no idea who we will ultimately sell to. We're very open-minded about talking to anybody who's interested."

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