June 2009
Following the sagas that played out in Denver and Albuquerque, Seattle has become the latest market that can no longer support two major dailies. Hearst in January was forced to make a critical decision on what to do with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Kill the P-I altogether, or let it live online. It chose, of course, the latter — and March 17 marked the last day a Post-Intelligencer print edition would roll off its presses. But was this a terribly sad, or actually quite promising turning point? Editor & Publisher offers this special report.
Created as part of a campaign to save the Rocky and re-launched as a news and advocacy site for journalism, IWantMyRocky.com is now a component of a larger project: a nonprofit corporation.
E.W. Scripps said it is finalizing an arrangement with the public library to assume ownership of the voluminous archives, including all digital and print newspaper clips, information files, microfilm, photos, correspondence, books and marketing material.
More than 100 projects, from community-financed reporting and media “test kitchens” at universities to a new journalism institute in India, are part of a $100 million, multi-year plan directed by Alberto Ibargüen. He’s president of the $2 billion John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and he’s out to save the news.
