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  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Hiring Returns to Pre-Recession Levels, Meaning You Might Finally Have to Get a Job

    The bad news is you may not be able to use the Great Recession anymore to rationalize the fact you haven't had a job in two years and have been sleeping on a couch in your parents' basement. The good news is, well, you might actually be able to find a job out there.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Penninsula Daily News Sold to David Black's Media-Buying Machine--Layoffs Announced

    ​The Peninsula Daily News, one of the last small, community newspaper to boast its own printing facility, is about to lose that unique trait, along with a handful of key staff members as part of a purchase deal with an infamous Canadian media buyer.

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2011

    Richard Lemieux

    ​The Peninsula Daily News, one of the last small, community newspaper to boast its own printing facility, is about to lose that unique trait, along with a handful of key staff members as part of a purchase deal with an infamous Canadian media buyer.

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Ain't No Business Like Book Business

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.​A many of you very well know, I am a die-hard and hardcore book-nerd. Some of you may also be aware that I have been writing a book over the last year or so. The book, It's So Easy, is done ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2010

    Richard LeMieux

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.​A many of you very well know, I am a die-hard and hardcore book-nerd. Some of you may also be aware that I have been writing a book over the last year or so. The book, It's So Easy, is done ... More >>

  • News

    October 13, 2010

    Will the Gates Foundation's Journalism Gifts Taint Objectivity?

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.​A many of you very well know, I am a die-hard and hardcore book-nerd. Some of you may also be aware that I have been writing a book over the last year or so. The book, It's So Easy, is done ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    City Council Establishes Opt-Out List For Phone Books

    Mark D. Fefer​If you dread the tri-yearly mountain of phone books, you can now relax. After delaying the vote for a week, the City Council has passed an ordinance (if you're feeling wonky, it's available for perusal here) imposing a series of regulations on yellow pages distributors. The best ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Inconceivable! Some Kindle Titles Now Cost More Than Hardcovers

    ​Like a lot of industries these days, book publishing is struggling to deal with the massive change wrought by the internet and new mediums like the Kindle. Unfortunately for people who like to read books, the people who publish them have settled on a strange new strategy going forward: screw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Ethan Stowell Cooks A Book

    Photo by Leslie KellyEthan and Angela Stowell make a dynamic duo.​Ethan Stowell's got it going on. He has launched a bunch of successful restaurants (Tavolata, How To Cook A Wolf, Anchovies and Olives, and the latest, Staple & Fancy Merchantile). He and partner Kaela Farrington have blanketed ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2010

    Richard LeMieux

    Photo by Leslie KellyEthan and Angela Stowell make a dynamic duo.​Ethan Stowell's got it going on. He has launched a bunch of successful restaurants (Tavolata, How To Cook A Wolf, Anchovies and Olives, and the latest, Staple & Fancy Merchantile). He and partner Kaela Farrington have blanketed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Ben Huh of I Can Haz Cheezburger Offers to Buy Reddit

    ​Reddit is a linkdump popular with the young and geeky. Think of it as the surly teen of parent company Conde Nast, the stuffy upper crust of the magazine world. Father and son haven't been getting along lately. So Ben Huh of Seattle's own I Can Haz Cheezburger has proposed that he take the ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Are E-Readers Greener Than Books?

    ​Let's say you're the kind of person who likes to read and cares about the enviro...wait. This is Seattle. Let's just assume those things. Here's a question you might have asked yourself before: are e-readers like Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad better for the environment than books?

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Publisher David Black Shutters Hawaii Paper; Is That How He Would Have 'Saved' The P-I, Too?

    ​As the Post-Intelligencer's print edition headed towards its last press run in 2009, the hopeful search for a white knight who would swoop in with a last-minute bid and cash infusion came down to David Black, the Victoria newspaper magnate. He puts out print like no one else, observers note ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2010

    Richard LeMieux

    ​As the Post-Intelligencer's print edition headed towards its last press run in 2009, the hopeful search for a white knight who would swoop in with a last-minute bid and cash infusion came down to David Black, the Victoria newspaper magnate. He puts out print like no one else, observers note ... 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 >>

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2009

    Cold Cave

    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

    June 15, 2009

    Times Co. Finally Unloads Maine Papers

    As reported, Seattle Times Co. has been in final negotiations for a sale of its Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram properties to a private consortium called MaineToday Media Inc. The papers were put on the block some 15 months ago. Now The Kennebec Journal (of Maine) confirms the fire-sale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Christine Gregoire, "Newspaper Savior"

    That newspaper tax-break bill that Christine Gregoire pushed for and signed has made her a hero to the newspaper industry, reports the Daily Beast in this laudatory article: There are no ink stains on Chris Gregoire's power suits, but maybe she deserves a Pulitzer Prize for excellence in journalism ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    The Revenge of the Dreamliner

    One of my favorite bands is the Mountain Goats, and one of my favorite Mountain Goats songs is "The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton". In it, two teenage boys have their dreams of a death metal band ridiculed by adults who send one of them off to boarding school, etc. Before heading into a f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Further Evidence that Frogs are Sharper than Americans

    Exhibit A is Vanessa Paradis. Exhibit B is the French government considers its ailing newspaper industry such a public asset that it's subsidizing free subscriptions for all 18-year-olds (HT to Romenesko).

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    P-I Sale Official

    Read it and weep,BREAKING NEWS: The Seattle P-I newspaper is being put up for sale. Steve Swartz, president of Hearst Newspaper Division, told the newsroom that Hearst Corp. is starting a 60-day process to find a buyer. If a buyer is not found, Swartz said, possible options include creating an all d ... 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

    November 5, 2008

    Read All About It--If You Can

    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

    June 19, 2008

    If You Can't Beat the Internet, Join It

    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?

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    More Bad News for Seattle Times Backer McClatchy

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

  • 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

    August 10, 2005

    Knight Ridder Rides In

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

  • News

    October 17, 2001

    The A-list

    Your guide to author-gazing.

  • Arts

    June 6, 2001

    World Wide Word

    Web publishing continues to transform frustrated writers into e-authors.

  • Diversions

    April 11, 2001

    Encyclopaedia of Evil

    Web publishing continues to transform frustrated writers into e-authors.

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    The Browser

    Pay for content online? Pffffff!

  • News

    June 7, 2000

    Politic publisher

    Roger Oglesby, the Seattle P-I's new publisher, actually praises the competition.

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    Crunch, crunch

    Roger Oglesby, the Seattle P-I's new publisher, actually praises the competition.

  • News

    May 20, 1998

    An industry divided

    Roger Oglesby, the Seattle P-I's new publisher, actually praises the competition.

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