Subject:

Frank Blethen

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    For Sale: The Seattle Times - Its Historic Headquarters, Anyway, for Twice Its Value

    It still looks like the art deco newspaper building it was for 81 years - once with its own restaurant and barbershop - until its newsroom and other functions recently moved to a building across the street. Now the venerable but mostly vacant Fairview Avenue headquarters of The Seattle Times is up f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Seattle Times Firmly Opposed to Banks Getting Involved in the Newspaper Business, Except When It Needs a Loan

    Sure, lots of locals stand ready to invest in this relic.​We've grown used to the Seattle Times railing against the corporate takeover of media. Being a family-owned paper, the Times naturally views its own model as the superior one. Now that publisher Frank Blethen's son, Ryan, has taken ove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Compartively Good Times on Fairview, Says Blethen

    ​Earlier this year, in a perhaps Freudian revelation of his suicidal tendencies, Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen told state legislators that he and other newspaper owners were "literally holding on by our fingertips." He meant figuratively holding on. But lawmakers got the message and ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Not Only Surviving, but Back in Black: Fairview Fannie

    ​Cue the Gloria Gaynor and AC/DC, at least for now. No longer burdened by its allegedly nostalgia-inspired Maine misadventure and having retained a fair number of the P-I readers it conscripted after the globe folded, the Seattle Times is turning a profit "on a month-to-month basis," Frank Ble ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    The Times' Costly Sale

    How much of a financial bath did the Seattle Times Co. take on the sale of its Maine newspapers to an investor group? As much as $170 million? The Times isn't saying. But earlier this year publisher Frank Blethen (left) pegged the combined value of the Maine papers and the Times-owned 1000 Denny Bui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Farewell, Jim Vesely

    Seattle Times editorial page editor Jim Vesely is calling it quits at the end of this week. Vesely spent the last year arguing for license fees for bicycles, against the military's don't ask, don't tell policy, and for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth bankroller T. Boone Pickens to be Vice President of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2009

    Tentative Pact to Save the Times

    Two unions representing Seattle Times news, sales, and print-production units have tentatively agreed to economic cuts to keep Seattle's last remaining major daily newspaper alive, the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild said yesterday. The changes are expected to be ratified by union members next wee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2009

    The 12 Percent Solution?

    As The Seattle Post-Intelligencer deathwatch continues, its parent company has a valuable lesson for The Seattle Times down in San Francisco. Last month, Hearst threatened to close the Bay Area's dominant but money-losing daily, The San Francisco Chronicle, unless its unions made major concessions. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Talk Stops

    When the Seattle Times went to a morning paper, Frank Blethen appeared on its cover wearing a t-shirt that showed his eagle mascot eating the P-I's globe. And when news of the P-I's print demise first broke, Times editorialist Lynn Varner sounded a provisionally triumphant note on KUOW, remarking th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    SF Chronicle's Lesson for Frank Blethen?

    As we mentioned earlier, the Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle recently made the stunning announcement that it might close that paper--the dominant daily in the Bay Area--as it's expected to do with the P-I. Now that looks more like a hard-line bargaining tactic with the unions. The Chronicle its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Times Paycut for Frank?

    Seattle Times employees are now publicly hashing out the best, or worst, ways to deal with their employer's cost-cutting plans, which include unpaid furloughs, pension freeze, and 12 percent pay/benefit cuts. They wonder if the well-off Blethen family ownership is sharing the misery, and ask what pu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Frank Blethen's Alright Once in a While

    Seattle Times owner Frank Blethen has driven me insane for years--what with the dog shooting, crypto-right-wing, entirely suburban editorial board, and manipulative anti-estate tax crusading (the nadir of which was the Times' decision to endorse George W. Bush in 2000 for reasons of "integrity and c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    People Are Getting Pissed

    Seattletimes.com's lead headline declares that sand is actually worse for the environment than salt--the superior ice-buster. "That's the opinion of scientists who have studied the issue and officials from other cities that use salt to clear icy roads," STimes reports. The story doesn't actually quo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Blethen's Times Partner Close to Default

    Trade journal Editor & Publisher reports that McClatchy Company, which owns 49.5 percent of Frank Blethen's Seattle Times, is in serious trouble. McClatchy, which previously bought the stake from dying media titan Knight-Ridder, was cited along with other troubled newspaper concerns by a credit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    More Bad News From/On Fairview

    Trade journal Editor & Publisher reports that McClatchy Company, which owns 49.5 percent of Frank Blethen's Seattle Times, is in serious trouble. McClatchy, which previously bought the stake from dying media titan Knight-Ridder, was cited along with other troubled newspaper concerns by a credit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    McClatchy Will Sell. Will Frank Buy?

    Trade journal Editor & Publisher reports that McClatchy Company, which owns 49.5 percent of Frank Blethen's Seattle Times, is in serious trouble. McClatchy, which previously bought the stake from dying media titan Knight-Ridder, was cited along with other troubled newspaper concerns by a credit ... More >>

  • News

    January 16, 2008

    A Pre-emptive Times Strike

    Blethen knows best. Probably.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    A Preemptive Times Strike

    Blethen knows best. Probably.

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Is The Seattle Times’ Owner Being Remarkably Open About His Company’s Challenges?

    Or just shrewd?

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2007

    Seattle Times: 'Adapt or Die'

    Or just shrewd?

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2006

    Former Scribe, Revolving Flack

    Or just shrewd?

  • News

    April 5, 2006

    Hearst Has a Heart

    Or so it claims in agreeing to arbitrate P-I-Times litigation.

  • News

    November 9, 2005

    Chain Gangs

    The Seattle Times says the alt-media merger will hurt democracy, but what about the damage it's done?

  • News

    July 6, 2005

    A Choice Ruling

    The Seattle Times wins a battle in court, but its war with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will continue.

  • News

    April 6, 2005

    Mad as Hell

    And they're not going to take it anymore. But no one has a plan to reclaim the media.

  • News

    October 8, 2003

    City Politics, Animal Rights

    And they're not going to take it anymore. But no one has a plan to reclaim the media.

  • News

    September 17, 2003

    Between the Lines

    A flurry of legal filings in the Seattle newspaper lawsuit affords a look at how Times and Post-Intelligencer executives have embittered a publicly entrusted monopoly.

  • News

    September 10, 2003

    Transportation, Media, Religion, Strippergate

    A flurry of legal filings in the Seattle newspaper lawsuit affords a look at how Times and Post-Intelligencer executives have embittered a publicly entrusted monopoly.

  • News

    July 30, 2003

    Media, State Government

    A flurry of legal filings in the Seattle newspaper lawsuit affords a look at how Times and Post-Intelligencer executives have embittered a publicly entrusted monopoly.

  • News

    July 30, 2003

    Civic Amnesia

    Seattle's got a serious memory problem.

  • News

    July 23, 2003

    Media, Pike Place Market, and City Council

    Seattle's got a serious memory problem.

  • News

    March 19, 2003

    More Miscellany

    Don't put away that Shop-Vac just yet.

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Here's P in Your I

    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's staffers defend their paper from Blethen's barbs.

  • News

    January 15, 2003

    Times: 'Valuable Gift'

    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's staffers defend their paper from Blethen's barbs.

  • News

    October 16, 2002

    Blethen to P-I: Drop Dead

    The Times publisher says he might pull the plug on the joint operating agreement.

  • News

    August 29, 2001

    Meta-media

    The Times publisher says he might pull the plug on the joint operating agreement.

  • News

    July 11, 2001

    News Clips— Needle Exchange

    The Times publisher says he might pull the plug on the joint operating agreement.

  • News

    June 20, 2001

    Publisher's prerogative

    The Times publisher says he might pull the plug on the joint operating agreement.

  • News

    June 13, 2001

    News Clips— Stars/Also-Rans

    The Times publisher says he might pull the plug on the joint operating agreement.

  • News

    June 6, 2001

    Annus horribilis

    The Times publisher says he might pull the plug on the joint operating agreement.

  • News

    April 18, 2001

    News Clips— Sweet/Weak

    The Times publisher says he might pull the plug on the joint operating agreement.

  • News

    April 4, 2001

    News Clips— Studs/Duds

    The Times publisher says he might pull the plug on the joint operating agreement.

  • News

    January 3, 2001

    Freedom of information

    Why does the Times want to lay off workers?

  • News

    December 20, 2000

    Who's got the contract?

    Each side accuses the other of gamesmanship in the newspaper strike.

  • News

    November 1, 2000

    "The truly controversial part of Mr. Nader's pitch is that his economic model puts people before profit!"

    Each side accuses the other of gamesmanship in the newspaper strike.

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    Bush helps Blethen

    A Seattle Times presidential endorsement neglects to mention the publishers pet issue.

  • News

    July 26, 2000

    The Beast in your Backyard

    The battle against nuisance critters gets personal

  • News

    September 15, 1999

    Death, taxes, and The Seattle Times

    Publisher Frank Blethen is on a crusade to keep his paper in the family.

  • News

    November 11, 1998

    The media and the establishment: one and the same?

    Despite pledges of objectivity, local news executives—even a popular TV anchor—mingle with Seattle's corporate and political elites.

  • News

    September 16, 1998

    The Times' 'mission'

    Despite pledges of objectivity, local news executives—even a popular TV anchor—mingle with Seattle's corporate and political elites.

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