It isn't just science news

By Kent on January 12, 2009 2:56 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBack | View blog reactions
As I said, it isn't just science news that is suffering.

After 146 years of delivering news, the Seattle P-I faces becoming what it has chronicled: history.

The Seattle P-I's parent company, The Hearst Corp., said Friday that it has put the paper up for sale and will stop publishing unless someone buys it in 60 days. If no buyer emerges, the paper would either become a Web-only publication or cease all operations. (Dan Richman and Andrea James, "For sale: the P-I," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 9 January 2009.)

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The death of newspapers from Uncommon Ground on March 16, 2009 8:05 AM

It's not news, and I'm certainly not the first to point it out, but newspapers are in trouble. I confess to reading the New York Times on-line, not in print, which means the only way I help it survive is... Read More

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