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Knight-Ridder Inc.

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Times Dismisses Story About Times Business Mistakes

    Earlier this week, Bill Richards published a story outlining and criticizing a long line of Blethen-family business decisions for the Seattle Times. Among the stories he recounts is one in which Frank Blethen buys a chain of Maine newspapers because his son Ryan--then a recent college grad, now abou ... 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

    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 >>

  • News

    July 16, 2008

    Betting on David Black

    Major dailies are shedding employees, hemorrhaging cash, and losing advertisers to the Web. So why is David Black swimming in ink?

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    McClatchy Will Sell. Will Frank Buy?

    Major dailies are shedding employees, hemorrhaging cash, and losing advertisers to the Web. So why is David Black swimming in ink?

  • News

    January 9, 2008

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

    Or just shrewd?

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    Drinking & Reading

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2006

    Bill Gates, Newspaper Guy

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • News

    April 5, 2006

    Hearst Has a Heart

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

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    A New Co-Owner for The Seattle Times

    Now in four cities, McClatchy is the most widespread newspaper chain in the state. So what happens to that minority Seattle Times stake?

  • 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

    August 10, 2005

    Knight Ridder Rides In

    The unhappy minority owner of The Seattle Times acquires two other state newspapers.

  • News

    January 26, 2005

    Tough Times

    The state's biggest newspaper lays it on the line for a union.

  • 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

    March 26, 2003

    Letter from Seattle

    A British author writes home about a chastened city that belies America's cowboy image.

  • News

    March 19, 2003

    More Miscellany

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

  • News

    February 12, 2003

    Patty, Jennifer, and Osama

    The race for the U.S. Senate commenced with Patty Murray's bin Laden remarks.

  • News

    February 5, 2003

    Pulp Friction

    Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen is about to start a newspaper war with Hearst, and his family intends to win.

  • News

    January 15, 2003

    Times: 'Valuable Gift'

    Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen is about to start a newspaper war with Hearst, and his family intends to win.

  • 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

    June 27, 2001

    Mal-content

    Seattle once boasted high-profile news and entertainment sites; now even Microsoft admits they were a mistake.

  • News

    June 6, 2001

    Annus horribilis

    Seattle once boasted high-profile news and entertainment sites; now even Microsoft admits they were a mistake.

  • News

    April 18, 2001

    It's cutting time

    Layoffs likely at Times, says memo from publisher Blethen

  • News

    January 3, 2001

    Freedom of information

    Why does the Times want to lay off workers?

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    Bush helps Blethen

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

  • News

    March 8, 2000

    Start the presses!

    It's a whole new era in Seattle daily journalism as the Times and P-I duke it out in the morning.

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    It's not better in the morning

    Teamsters fight to stop The Seattle Times' move to morning publication.

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    Crunch, crunch

    Teamsters fight to stop The Seattle Times' move to morning publication.

  • News

    February 10, 1999

    Suicide Pact

    The Times and P-I set the stage to put one of them out of business.

  • News

    September 2, 1998

    Going on a diet

    The Times and P-I set the stage to put one of them out of business.

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    News, Inc.

    The Times and P-I set the stage to put one of them out of business.

  • News

    May 20, 1998

    An industry divided

    The Times and P-I set the stage to put one of them out of business.

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