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    Once Near-Death Seattle Newspaper Suddenly Thriving

    Today In Bad News: The Village Voice, Rodale, Seattle Times, Out Traveler

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    Image of yetimike yetimike
    08/10/09

    In reply to Once Near-Death Seattle Newspaper Suddenly Thriving
    I spent a year working for the Seattle Times, after 4 years as an editor at Amazon. It was 2002 and basically, the Times had just discovered the Internet. They poured all this money into a site called NWSource rather than into their own website. NWS sucked donkeys, though after a few weeks I realized the whole point was to pretend that they were losing money so that they didn't have to help out the P-I as part of their their Non-Compete thingamajig.
    Blethen sent these dreadful emails around to everyone bemoaning the agreement w/ the P-I the whole time it was clear they loved that they were slowly suffocating that paper (which was slightly better) to death. I'm surprised the Seattle Times gets praised as it does. A few awesome reporters aside, it's basically fourth grade reading level pap. The owners, the Blethen family, seemed to prize nepotism above all else, and the place was run so poorly, with so much middle management, I couldn't believe it.
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    08/10/09

    @yetimike: They have also pretty much shut down NW Source, which had some worthwhile stuff, so that probably helped the bottom line, too.
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    Image of Un Chien Andalou Un Chien Andalou
    11/03/08

    In reply to Today In Bad News: The Village Voice, Rodale, Seattle Times, Out Traveler
    Th-y c--ld s-v- m-n-y b- n-t -s-ng v-w-ls.

    Or Sarah Vowel.
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    11/03/08

    @Un Chien Andalou: Is she the most overrated "cool" writer in the world, or what?
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/08

    In reply to Today In Bad News: The Village Voice, Rodale, Seattle Times, Out Traveler
    ___ publication was so poor that they _____
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/03/08

    In reply to Today In Bad News: The Village Voice, Rodale, Seattle Times, Out Traveler
    Out Traveler isn't exactly folding. Check yer tip box, Hammy!
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    11/03/08

    @Mount_Prion: ?
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    Image of KillMeNow no longer has a future in journalism KillMeNow no longer has a future in journalism
    11/03/08

    In reply to Today In Bad News: The Village Voice, Rodale, Seattle Times, Out Traveler
    That was a lot of bad, except for the whole buying your own drinks at a going-away party. My paper has apples for those. No shit. And we've had so many people leave that no one with less than like 30 years' tenure gets that much.
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    11/03/08

    In reply to Today In Bad News: The Village Voice, Rodale, Seattle Times, Out Traveler
    Rodale is not one of the companies that would seem likely to have a lot of fat to trim (no pun intended). Yikes.
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