Seattle Post-Intelligencer staffers are describing what this city will have lost when, after tomorrow, the newspaper’s print edition ceases to exist. Here’s P-I business reporter Andrea James, 27, who has been with the paper since 2006 and will join the new online-only P-I covering business and Microsoft:
More than a hundred thousand subscribers start their day with the P-I‘s print edition—they lose a morning friend and guest. They lose an alternative voice to the larger Seattle Times. The region loses scores of warm-bodied reporters and photographers digging, asking questions and trying to make sense of this crazy world. It reminds me of that scene in Star Wars Episode IV, when the Death Star destroys the planet Alderaan, and the Jedis sense the disruption in The Force. I know I’m a dork, but my mind keeps going back to that.
I’m excited that seattlepi.com is sticking around, and that I’ll get to be a part of it. I’ll be covering business and Microsoft, and working my butt off in hopes of creating something that will grow big enough to hire more journalists back. That won’t happen right away, but we’ve got to try.
Illustration by Andrew Saeger.
drip drip drip drip
Egad, this is already a tiresome feature.
Shut up @1 and @2, go read something else.
Andrea James seems nice and eager, but her amazon coverage has been embarrassing. Nothing but an unwitting outpost for whatever amazon’s PR department wants to propagate.
Drat, I was hoping for pictures of Eli wailing, drooling and rending his shirt.
Your twitter twat lied!
1000 bums lose their hat. I guess they’ll have to use the weekly.
Hearst Corporation pull plug on Seattle P-I print edition, Seattle P-I publish final print edition, freak out, online-only out, SEATTLE P-I BECOME ONLINE-ONLY NEWSPAPER!
ONLINE-ONLY SEATTLE P-I WILL SMASH ONLINE-ONLY SEATTLE TIMES!
And no, I don’t feel like letting it go.
James is smart and also looks great in a skirt, not something you see much of in post-feminist Seattle.
she covered union fights for a long time. now all we’ve got are apathetic bloggers to cover the struggles of working people…