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Today the final print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer hit area driveways and newsboxes. The P-I will continue online with a greatly reduced staff and the iconic globe will keep spinning. Subscribers will now receive The Seattle Times, which will inherit some of the P-I content including comics Dilbert, 9 Chickweed Lane, and Pearls Before Swine. The P-I’s memories section includes a photo gallery from each decade starting with 1920, a journey through the history of Seattle (construction of the 520 bridge and the Space Needle appear in the 1960s). Lewis Kamb gives a play-by-play of the final day as “documents and sacred records that took years to accumulate were pulled from filing cabinets and discarded into dumpsters, gone in a matter of minutes.” The Seattle Times has posted shots of the final press run.

Written by ltao

March 17th, 2009 at 3:14 am

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