As someone who used to subscribe to newspapers based on this article, for example, I can't help but feel a sense of loss, even though I have no personal connection to the P-I.
Link to March 17 New York Times article, "Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web".
Excerpt: Other newspapers have closed and many more are threatened. But the transition to an all-digital product for The P-I will be especially closely watched in an industry that is fast losing revenue and is casting around for a new economic model.
For one thing, the closing may end up putting greater pressure on the surviving and financially struggling Seattle Times, because of the end of a joint operating agreement between the two papers. It may even bring closer the day when Seattle has no local paper at all.
(RG's emphasis.)
See also "In Seattle, the World Still Turns, a Beacon in Memory of a Lost Newspaper".
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