More PI Musings

by John Berkowitz on Mar 5, 2009 6:06 PM PST

Word out on the street is their will definitely be an Online Seattle PI staffed by around twenty people when the print edition closes. Don't count on any of your old favorites sticking around for it. The new PI staff will be very skeletal in nature with salaries and benefits slashed to the bone for those that choose to remain.

Another angle that is being pursued by the soon to be ex employee's is to form their own local web news organization called the Seattle PostGlobe.

A group of Seattle Post-Intelligencer employees is seeking to raise $250,000 to start up an online local news site if Hearst Corp. decides to shut down the daily newspaper and not pursue an online-only site of its own.

The employees are setting up a nonprofit entity called the Seattle PostGlobe. About 20 P-I staffers say they are prepared to work without pay until they can raise funds.

I wouldn't mind seeing an independent Seattle Sports page as another example. If you want to stay in journalism maybe you have to be grass roots creative.

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OSU/UCLA going on

If OSU can pull the upset at Pauley, it gives us the conference title outright. Not likely, but possible.

by thecassino on Mar 5, 2009 7:43 PM PST reply actions

Yeah, forget about that

They’re down 20.

by thecassino on Mar 5, 2009 8:11 PM PST up reply actions

Not going to happen

We need to beat WSU to win this thing outright.

by John Berkowitz on Mar 6, 2009 8:08 AM PST reply actions

good riddance

Good riddance to the PI. A left-wing fish wrapper of a paper.

Josh Normand

by Jmnor8 on Mar 6, 2009 10:03 AM PST reply actions

I think you need all views

You need to present all views – right – middle- left – if you are going to have a cohesive democracy.

God help us if world opinion is dictated by FOX NEWS and RUPERT MURDOCH!

I am more of a centrist and have always been that way.

by John Berkowitz on Mar 6, 2009 10:54 AM PST up reply actions

all views

Listen, there are plenty of places to see and hear what other sides are saying. Read Jerry Large and Nicole Brodeur in the Times, for example. I don’t recall them as being “far-right”.

Anyway, Go Dawgs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Josh Normand

by Jmnor8 on Mar 9, 2009 9:37 AM PDT reply actions

Josh

Just saying that whenever a local community loses its daily paper it isn’t good.

The loss of the PI isn’t an isolated thing.

Local papers on a national basis that lean to the right, left and stay in the center are all in financial peril.

I think the migration to an online format is way overdue but with it we are losing a lot of journalists.

When the PI goes online it will be with a production staff of only 20 people including the writers. Currently they employ 156 journalists. Losing that many editorial voices in the community is a problem.

by John Berkowitz on Mar 9, 2009 9:52 AM PDT reply actions