Comments on: Another Newspaper Down: Hearst About to Pull the Plug on Seattle's Post-Intelligencer

By: MISCmedia » Blog Archive » SAVING THE P-I, PART TWO (OF MANY)

MISCmedia » Blog Archive » SAVING THE P-I, PART TWO (OF MANY) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:39:19 +0000

[...] Digital site, agrees with some local pessimists that an online-only local “paper” couldn’t possibly turn a profit. Kafka asserts that seattlepi.com’s 2.6 million monthly unique visitors might be enough fo [...]

By: Hearst: Zombie Seattle Paper Doing Better Than The Original | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Mon, 18 May 2009 18:46:37 +0000

[...] better to have Hearst says it’s encouraged than to have Hearst pull the plug after a few days. Two months after becoming the nation’s largest newspaper to move to an [...]

By: Hearsts Shuts Down Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Replaces it with Website | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:58:29 +0000

[...] — is whether even a stripped-down site can be profitable. I’m doubtful it will, for reasons I’ve previously expressed. But I’d love to be proved [...]

By: Hearst Not Killing Seattle’s Post-Intelligencer, After All - Just Gutting It | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:25:22 +0000

[...] In January, when Hearst said it would either turn the Seattle Post-Intelligencer into an online-only newspaper or pull the plug altogether, I said they’d do the latter. [...]

By: How Not To Save Newspapers: A Facebook Event [MediaMemo] | LinkTouch

How Not To Save Newspapers: A Facebook Event [MediaMemo] | LinkTouch — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:47:49 +0000

[...] As the death rattle for newspapers gets louder, we’re seeing an interesting flurry of last-minute discussions about how to save them. See, for instance, the back-and-forth about how to prop up or replace Seattle’s Post-Intelligencer, which is scheduled for euthanasia in a few weeks. [...]

By: How Not To Save Newspapers: A Facebook Event | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:47:51 +0000

By: Requiem For A Newspaper, Part I: There’s nothing more we can do | Seattle Metblogs

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:24:04 +0000

[...] swirling around whether this even makes sense. You have the optimism of Bill Richards and the fingers-in-the-ears headshaking of Peter Kafka. And you have the plans, notably Todd Bishop’s ten step plan for saving the [...]

By: Will Seattle Post-Intelligencer survive on the Web? « Virtualjournalist

Will Seattle Post-Intelligencer survive on the Web? « Virtualjournalist — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:15:30 +0000

[...] can the Seattle P-I survive on the Web? No, says All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka: Quantcast pegs the paper’s traffic at 2.6 million uniques. That would keep a blog with a handful [...]

By: Is there room for two in Seattle? » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:04:57 +0000

[...] incarnation of the paper with significantly reduced staff? Peter Kafka of All Things Digital dismisses the latter out of hand, pointing to the P-I’s 2 to 3 million unique visitors per month and concluding: That would [...]

By: John Cook

John Cook — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:56:02 +0000

Thanks for the link Peter. I think you are correct, as a general news site it won’t work. But if they focused on the top niches and then partnered with some of the local blogs as an aggregator they might be able to make it fly.

Who knows. It would certainly be an experiment.

Anyway, we have a post coming soon on some of those ideas. And I just posted on 12 possible “white knights” from the Seattle tech community who could salvage the assets in some way.

http://www.techflash.com/ventu.....25074.html

Talk to you soon,

John Cook

By: Weekend Update 1.11.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:27:11 +0000

[...] Another Newspaper Down: Hearst About to Pull the Plug on Seattle’s Post-Intelligencer [...]

By: Mark Light

Mark Light — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:30:18 +0000

It’s important to keep a prsence, no matter how small. Someone else will have to fill the void. They always do, in my experience. Maybe Murdoch is interested.

By: Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn Tipling — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:04:20 +0000

I think newspapers have to consolidate. Maybe 3 or 4 major national newspapers with offices around the country with an online focus. Newspapers have a place in the future. They’ve always been about printed Text, unlike CNN or network news which has been about video news. I think they can survive, even if dead tree print editions can’t.

Classifieds for them are dead to them forever though.

You know who else is in trouble: local tv stations. Those are gonna start dropping like flies.