It was a miserable, terrible year full of death and loss. Here are a few of the things we will miss, and the things that we wish had died in their place. Please offer your own suggestions in comments.
Well here's a bright ray of sunshine for the struggling newspaper industry: the Seattle Times, thought to be on the verge of collapse earlier in the year, is suddenly turning a profit again.
In your temporarily de-Nolanated Friday media column: Hearst learns that investigations don't require ink, a lefty New York radio station gets locked out, Bill Keller's irony goes unappreciated, and Andrew Sullivan gets some help.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer today printed its last issue, but not before some wiseass staffer amended a Thomas Jefferson quote on an office wall. If this jester isn't blogging for SeattlePI.com, she should be!
In a move that surprises no one, Hearst finally announced today that the Seattle P-I will stop printing tomorrow. What took so long?
• Yet one more newspaper is folding. Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer will shut down its print operations tomorrow, but its website will live on. [Seattle PI]
• The Sci Fi Channel is changing its name. To Syfy. This is not a joke. [NYT]
• CNN says it plans to "devote the bulk of its news effort this week" to…
Joshua Trujillo's 145-year-old newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, will probably stop printing. But the photographer hadn't yet taken his dream shot of the neon globe atop the newspaper's headquarters. So he inflated a kayak.
Hearst is preparing to take the Seattle Post-Intelligencer online-only, the largest newspaper to make such a move. Pay and benefits are coming along for the ride.
As I've been digging into the strange fraud case at Seattle startup Entellium, I wondered what had become of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's top tech reporters, John Cook and Todd Bishop. Turned out they jumped ship last month to start a blog. It's trendy, I hear! The as-yet-unlaunched venture has a placeholder site,…
