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Media: The fine print in the Times' good-news numbers

“Seattle Times daily circulation up sharply” was the headline on the Times’ upbeat story after the latest six-month circulation figures were posted this week by an industry monitor, the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). And so it seemed, with the average paid daily circulation of the Times standing at 263,588, up from 198,737 in the same period last year.

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Media: Crosscut's new approach

Crosscut has completed its migration to a new, nonprofit model. Here are recent developments and a case for this new media structure.

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Beck visit riles residents

A City Council usually devoted to such matters as zoning disputes, sewer fees and fire protection found itself dealing Wednesday night with the Glenn Beck factor. About 100 people packed the meeting room to either support or object to Mayor Bud Norris’ decision to award the key to the city to the fiery Fox News commentator.

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Media: Black and white (or is it red?) all over

The Seattle Times Co. is on its way back to profitability, a glowing New York Times article reported recently, but the paper's own numbers raise doubts.

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InvestigateWest launches

InvestigateWest launches today to provide high-quality investigative journalism about environmental, health and social justice issues across the West.

InvestigateWest is a nonprofit investigative journalism studio that will distribute its work online, in print and on radio and TV stations. InvestigateWest will distribute its multimedia content through individual partnerships with media organizations and through its own syndicated service.

Seattle P-I Returns...

... as Seattle PostGlobe:

By Kery Murakami

The last you saw of us, we had the stunned look of many people in this economy -- suddenly jobless, our futures and our careers uncertain.

Many of us were in tears.

We became the subject of news ourselves, on TV, in the papers, in the blogosphere, as the pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer died.

It's been almost a month. But we haven't left.

Get ready for Seattle's PostGlobe

Knute Berger at Crosscut:

Vets of the recently folded print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be launching their new venture on Tuesday, April 14, according to reporter Kathy Mulady. Mulady relayed the news while attending the Seattle Neighborhood Coalition monthly meeting in Ballad on Saturday, April 11. The launch of Seattlepostglobe.org is timed to coincide with the Seattle Mariners season home opener and will feature work by former P-I sports writers like the brilliant Art Thiel who is freelancing since the paper's closure, including for the P-I's own Web effort, Seattlepi.com.

More here.

Skagit Publishing reduces staff

After spending 4.5 million on a new printing press,  the Skagit Publishing Company Thursday announced a reduction in staff made necessary by the current economic crisis.

New Media

Longtime newspaper guy Chuck Taylor has a new website where he takes up our changing media and the implications of it all.  A good read.

R.I.P.

 

The full moon rises behind the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's
signature neon globe on March 10, 2009.
Photo by Joshua Trujillo / Seattle P-I

Update:

P-I managing editor David McCumber said Monday the Web-only operation will stay in its current headquarters on the Seattle waterfront with the signature globe spinning overhead.


Update: Crosscut has updated commentary from all over the web

More bad news at the Seattle Times

Bill Richards at Crosscut:

Meanwhile, the Times Co.’s pension problems were underscored by its minority partner, McClatchy, which announced in a federal securities filing late Monday that it had written down the value of its 49.5 percent share of the Times Co. to zero.

More here.

More newspaper woes...

The Bellingham Herald cut staff, salaries.

Independent journalism is stressing public access practices

Floyd McKay at Crosscut:

There's a nasty convergence in these difficult times between the sometimes-high cost of providing public access to public records and the increasing financial problems and layoffs at Washington's newspapers.

Read the whole thing.

Time to say goodbye to print newspapers

Bill Richards at Crosscut

Starting a newspaper?

Strange as it may seem.  Bringing back the Concrete Herald.

New Media

Plastic newspapers?

P- I in trouble?

P-I reported for sale, could close.