But hoping there's a future online for

seattlepi.com



A lot of good journalists in Seattle will be looking for work, should the Hearst Corp. be unable to find a buyer for Seattle's oldest daily newspaper. This page is dedicated to helping them.

The background: On Jan. 9, Hearst announced it would put the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer up for sale. If no buyer emerges within 60 days, the company said it would close the paper.

However, company officials also said they were still investigating the possibility of continuing seattlepi.com, one of the nation's largest newspaper websites, as an online-only news operation, albeit with significantly reduced news staff.

So some very hardworking, throughtful and highly skilled editors, writers, reporters, copy editors clerks, secretaries and web staff are likely to be joining the unemployed, even as both the local and national economies continue to slip.

Of course, we know we're not alone. The very day the P-I's sale was announced, the Seattle region's largest employer, aerospace giant Boeing, announced it was cutting 4,500 jobs.

So while our future is bleak, and there have been more than a few tears around here, we're trying what we can to stay alive, find a future and, if we must, start over.

Check this page for more on who's available, if you have a job. Or just stay tuned if you want to know more of what's happening.

-- Don Smith, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and seattlepi-com, 1989-2009

 
Don Smith