The Hearst Corp confirmed today that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's future will be announced next week. Scooping the News previously reported that multiple published sources said the newspaper's print edition would end either this week or early next week at the latest. In a Seattle P-I story written by Dan Richman, it is also confirmed that the P-I's employees' jobs will end some time between March 18 and April 1.
So, if it's been confirmed that P-I employees' jobs are coming to an end, what does that leave for Hearst to announce next week? Well, the announcement will be one of the following: (1) The newspaper is shutting down all its operations and will no longer exist in any format; or (2) the newspaper is shutting down its print operation and becoming an online only publication.
Once the Seattle P-I announcement comes, what will be the next newspaper to serve as the focus of headlines about the industry's problems? Actually a great column by Tom Regan in today's online edition of The Christian Science Monitor suggests that dying newspapers are "old news," and it's time for everyone to focus solely on solutions. Scooping the News is trying to foster public input on a variety of new business models. Vote in the poll to the right.
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