Seattle Post-Intelligencer up for sale, no buyer likely

Link here to the story on the sale of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Hearst Corp., a move that likely means the end of the print edition of the paper and may mean the end of its website as well. The story was in the P-I Jan. 9.

And to cartoonist David Horsey's blog post on the demise of the P-I and what it could mean for the newspaper business. He predicted, "it is entirely possible there will soon be several cities without daily newspapers and Seattle could be one of them." He added:

There may be a silver lining at the edge of this dark cloud. Though the P-I made up of ink and wood fiber will be gone, technology may allow a transformed P-I to live on. Can a newspaper survive as an entity on the internet? Is that the future of newsgathering? Those questions have been asked for several years now as the business has undergone radical change. No metro daily has given it a try. The first real experiment may occur right here with seattlepi.com. I'll be writing more about this possible metamorphosis of the veneralbe P-I brand. For now, though, I want to simply mark this moment.