Another newspaper folds and Seattle bids farewell to the PI

Monday, March 16, 2009

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Newspapers are struggling as they compete with online sources. (Flickr user zarkodrincic (cc: by-nc-sa))

This week the Hearst Corporation will announce if it will shutter the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer or turn it into an online-only publication with a much reduced staff. This is only the latest in a seemingly endless list of newspapers that are threatened with closure. Jacqueline Banaszynski, who holds the Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism, talks to Farai and John about what it means to a community to lose a newspaper.

"What's at risk is more than newspapers and newspaper jobs. What's at risk is the foundations of traditional journalism, which are the foundations of how we keep our democracy going."
— Jacqueline Banaszynski of the Missouri School of Journalism on the importance of saving newspapers

Guests:

Jacqueline Banaszynski

Hosted by:

Farai Chideya

Comments [1]

Evelyn C

I enjoy spending a lot of time at work and at home on the computer, including looking up news stories. But that's entirely different from wanting to sit down after dinner to read the newspaper or (since I live alone, my M.O. of choice) enjoying reading the paper **during** dinner. And nothing matches relaxing w/the paper on the weekend.

RIP, Seattle PI :^(

Mar. 17 2009 01:09 AM

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