Seattle Post-Intelligencer Stops Print Edition - Now Online Only

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is one of the latest daily newspapers to stop its print publications and move to an online-only format.

There'd been speculation regarding this move for months now, however one of my contacts at another major daily newspaper owned by the Hearst Corporation confirmed it last week.

Another interesting fact - according to one of my contacts in the Seattle area (confirmed by the Times), the Seattle Times is going to be picking up the P-I subscribers, so those who currently advertise in both papers won't automatically lose that circulation.

So who's next?

Time Magazine lists ten "Endangered Newspapers" that are worth taking a look at. Here they are in order:

1. The Philadelphia Daily News
2. The Minneapolis Star Tribune
3. The Miami Herald
4. The Detroit News
5. The Boston Globe (One contact says June as a potential door-closing date, though another claims it’s all rumors…hmmmm)
6. The San Francisco Chronicle
7. The Chicago Sun-Times
8. The New York Daily News
9. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
10. The Cleveland Plain Dealer


There's also a lot of talk about major restructuring at the New York Times. If you have time (and we're talking at least an hour here), check out the Buzz Machine for a fascinating post, complete with comments and reader interactions on the Times dilemma.


(Courtesy of Cnn.com, SeattlePI.com, NPPA.org, FindingDulcinea.com, Hearst.com, SeattleTimesCompany.com, Time.com, NYTimes.com, and BuzzMachine.com)