Newspapers

Silicon Alley Insider, a frequent source of morbid news about the plight of the New York Times, has morbid news about the local (Seattle) Times: In 2004, newspaper broker Dirks, Van Essen & Murray put the value of the company at $900 million. Two years later McClatchy purchased a 49.5% share of the paper from…

Two of the most-widely-read technology journalists/bloggers for the Seattle newspapers have left the building: The Puget Sound Business Journal got significantly stronger today. Two of Seattle’s best-known technology journalists, John Cook and Todd Bishop, have resigned from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to take new jobs at the crosstown Business Journal. In an unbundled world, the vertical…

Following up on our previous examination of the newspaper business in Seattle, two breaking developments have emerged this weekend. All The News That Fits in the Pits A special correspondent sends photographic evidence of a local marketing effort by the New York Times in Seattle: This is near the hydroplane pits at SeaFair, an annual…