{"id":6675,"date":"2009-03-16T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:55:12","slug":"the-p-i-is-dead-long-live-the-p-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/03\/16\/the-p-i-is-dead-long-live-the-p-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The P-I is dead. Long live the P-I!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4316,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/moniguzman\\\/statuses\\\/1337260415&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4317,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.seattlepi.com\\\/business\\\/403793_piclosure17.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.seattlepi.com\\\/business\\\/403793_piclosure17.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The writing&#8217;s been on the wall for some time now, but it&#8217;s just been made official: tomorrow&#8217;s print run of the Seattle P-I will be its last. I&#8217;m going to want to pick up a copy somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>For me, first notification of the official announcement came <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/moniguzman\/statuses\/1337260415\" title=\"Twitter: @moniguzman: Publisher Roger Oglesby...\">via @moniguzman on Twitter<\/a>: &#8220;Publisher Roger Oglesby just announced in the P-I newsroom: Tomorrow will be our last print edition, but seattlepi.com will live on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;breaking news&#8221; banner went up on the P-I&#8217;s website about the same time, but now there&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/business\/403793_piclosure17.html\" title=\"Seattle PI: Seattle P-I to publish last edition Tuesday\">official story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will roll off the presses for the last time Tuesday, ending a 146-year run.<\/p>\n<p>  The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the newspaper, Seattle&#8217;s oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers.<\/p>\n<p>  The company, however, said it will maintain seattlepi.com, making it the nation&#8217;s largest daily newspaper to shift to an entirely digital news product.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Tonight we&#8217;ll be putting the paper to bed for the last time,&#8221; Editor and Publisher Roger Oglesby told a silent newsroom Monday morning. &#8220;But the bloodline will live on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  In a news release, Hearst CEO Frank Bennack Jr. said, &#8220;Our goal now is to turn seattlepi.com into the leading news and information portal in the region.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sad to see the P-I go &#8212; of the two local papers, I always liked the feel of the P-I better than the Seattle Times. It&#8217;s a little hard for me to quantify just why (though I&#8217;m sure those who follow the media more closely than I would be able to make some educated guesses), they just more often seemed to be my paper of choice.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes to all at the P-I who are being affected by this, and best of luck to the P-I&#8217;s online-only incarnation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writing&#8217;s been on the wall for some time now, but it&#8217;s just been made official: tomorrow&#8217;s print run of the Seattle P-I will be its last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[13,140],"class_list":["post-6675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-life","tag-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}