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Thinking Big by Starting Small

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: One Acre Fund, Stephanie Hanson, Funding, State of the World 2011, Farmers, Worldwatch, Innovations That Nourish the Planet, Hunger, Policy, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Poverty, State of the World, World News

Agriculture funding should focus on the many low-tech, African-led innovations that are already helping to alleviate hunger and poverty in environmentally sustainable ways all over the continent.

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Seattle's Oldest Newspaper Remembers Their Irish Wake

Bill Lucey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Hearst, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Newspaper Industry, Media News

When journalists see their profession crumbling before them, left without jobs and stripped of what they love to do, it is surely disheartening and deflating -- a feeling of helplessness.

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Book Review Bites The Dust: The End Of Kirkus

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mediabistro, Book Publishing, Twitter, Publishers Weekly, Nielsen, Libraries, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Observer, Esther Newberg, Book Reviews, Editor and Publisher, Icm, Booksellers, Booklist, Books News

Kirkus Reviews announced yesterday that, after 76 years of publication, it would be shutting down. The subscription-based periodical, offering short r...

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Seattle Bus Crash Leaves Bus Dangling Over Interstate (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Seattle Bus Accident, Seattle Bus Crash, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Bus Crash, Seattle, Buses, Extreme Weather, Home News

Scroll down for video SEATTLE - Two buses crashed Friday on a Seattle street, pushing one through a guardrail next to Interstate 5 and leaving its ...

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Seattle Times Finds Profit As Seattle's Only Newspaper

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seattle, Newspapers, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Media News

In an article in March on Seattle's becoming "a one-newspaper town," The Times asked, "will it become a no-newspaper town?" But less than five mont...

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Writers at the End of Print

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: USA Today, Rocky Mountain News, Apple Iphone, John King, San Francisco Chronicle, Nancy Grace, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Times, Amazon Kindle, Ebooks, Newspapers, Kindle, Books, Death of Newspapers, Online Books, Unemployed Writers, Media News

It is now much easier and cheaper to publish a book than ever before.

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Clay Shirky is Right: Newspapers' Death is Journalism's Loss

Tom Watson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Jay Rosen, Citizen Journalism, Rocky Mountain News Closing, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Will Bunch, New York Times, Huffington Post, Journalism, Clay Shirky, Media News

The Internet has been a destructive force for many business models, but none threatens the basis of the republic as much as the digital knife busily sawing at the fraying Achilles tendon of American newspapers.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Publishes Final Print Edition

AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Media News

SEATTLE — Patrick Sheldon has been a loyal reader of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1965, when his dad started buying it because he prefer...

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Why Didn't the P-I Fold Sooner?

Ben Stoddard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Print Media, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Internet, Media News

As sad as I am to see some smart, hard-working journalists losing their jobs, I can't help but wonder: why did it take so long?

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R.I.P. Seattle P-I: First Major Newspaper to Go Web Only

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinese Democracy, Hearst Corp, Kevin Cogill, Shelly Palmer, AT&T, Standards and Poor, Axel Rose, Cisco, Council for Research Excellence, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Media News, Riaa, Mediabytes, Server, Guns N Roses, Media News

The P-I will become an experiment of sorts for Hearst, who will try to figure out whether or not the company can cut overhead and increase ad rev on a web-only model.

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Last Newspaper Reader Cancels Subscription

William Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Michael Bloomberg, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wolf Blitzer, Journalism, Humor, Satire, Political Satire, Media News

Millions of readers who had been thought to give a damn about reading print turned out to relieved they didn't have to pretend anymore. "You can feel informed in a fraction of the time," said a prominent attorney who requested anonymity.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer To Go Online Only

AP | PHUONG LE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Media News

SEATTLE — The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has chronicled the news of the city since logs slid down its steep streets to the harbor and min...

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The New Muckrakers: Can Celebrity Gossip Outlets Fill in for our Failing Newspapers?

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Rocky Mountain News, Britney Spears, San Francisco Chronicle, Muckraker, Bernard Madoff, Hearst Publications, Inside Edition, Celebrity News, Rory Waltzer, Fourth Estate, Tmz, Media News

Is it possible that in this midst of the rubble in the collapsing newspaper industry we are witnessing the rise of the new muckrakers?

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Harvey Milk Lives -- in Albany

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Spanish Harlem, Roosevelt Island, COBRA Legislation, Mike Bloomberg, Disabled, Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, Jewish Progressive, Albany, Transgender, Gay, Jonathan Bing, Rainbow Flag, United Federation of Teachers, Bisexual, Micah Kellner, Millionaires? Tax, Talking Points Memo, Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Education, www.micahkellner.net, Gay Agenda, Harvey Milk, LGBT Seniors, New York City, Daily Beast, Carolyn Maloney, Gay Marriage, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Lesbian, Harlem, New York Post, Bill Thompson, Joel Klein, New York Times, Peter Grannis, The Mayor of Castro Street, New York State Assembly, Huffington Post, Chuck Schumer, New York University, Wheelchair-Accessible, New York, Politics News

Handsome, dedicated, and driven, Micah is the disabled with cerebral palsy, Jewish progressive, openly bisexual, who represents a swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

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Seattle Times Still Standing, But For How Long?

AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Seattle Times, Seattle Newspapers, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Media News

SEATTLE — As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer moves toward printing its last edition, it remains unclear whether its bigger rival, The Seattle Tim...

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Analyst: Major American City Will Be Newspaper-Less By 2010

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Tuscon Citizen, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Newspaper Industry, Philadelphia Inquirer, New Haven Advocate, Media News

The history of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer stretches back more than two decades before Washington became a state, but after 146 years of publishing...

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Employees Told Jobs May End Next Week

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspaper Industry, Hearst, Newspapers, Seattle Newspaper, Hearst Newspapers, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Media News

NEW YORK, March 10 (Reuters) - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has told employees they might lose their jobs as soon as next week after a deadline for...

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer May Go Online Only

Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hearst, Newspapers, Seattle, Hearst Newspapers, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Media News

Staffers chosen to participate in an online-only version of the Seattle P-I were notified of their selection Wednesday and Thursday. The selections in...

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Failing Newspaper With Online Potential For Sale... Any Takers?

Meghan Peters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Media, Newspapers, Seattle, Media, Hearst, Journalism, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Newspaper Websites, Journalism School, Newspaper Layoffs, Online Newspapers, Online Journalism, Janet Grimley, Publication Foldings, The Seattle Times, Online Publication, Journalism Student, Media News

With features such as comment boards and community blogs, the Internet makes possible the essence of journalism: creating public discourse.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Put Up For Sale, Will Close If No Buyer

AP | GENE JOHNSON and PHUONG LE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Newspaper Sale, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Media News

SEATTLE — Hearst Corp. put Seattle's oldest newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, up for sale on Friday and said that if it can't find a bu...

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Media Darlings: The Maverick or The Chosen One?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Do reporters like John McCain better? Can Captain Straight Talk Express even complain? And should Obama sidestep his rep as the Anointed One?

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