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The ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' (popularly known as the ''Seattle P-I'', the ''Post-Intelligencer'', or simply the ''P-I'') is an online newspaper and former print newspaper covering Seattle, Washington, United States, and the surrounding metropolitan area. The newspaper was founded in 1863 as the weekly ''Seattle Gazette'', and was later published daily in broadsheet format. It was long one of the city's two daily newspapers, along with ''The Seattle Times'', until it became an online-only publication on March 18, 2009. ==History== J.R. Watson founded the ''P-I'', Seattle's first newspaper, on December 10, 1863, as the ''Seattle Gazette''.〔 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = HistoryLink.org )〕 The paper failed after a few years and was renamed the ''Weekly Intelligencer'' in 1867 by the new owner, Sam Maxwell. In 1878, after publishing the ''Intelligencer'' as a morning daily, Thaddeus Hanford bought the ''Daily Intelligencer'' for $8,000. Hanford also acquired the daily ''Puget Sound Dispatch'' and the weekly ''Pacific Tribune'' and folded both papers into the ''Intelligencer''. In 1881, the ''Intelligencer'' merged with the ''Seattle Post''. The names were combined to form the present-day name.〔 In 1886, Indiana businessman Leigh S. J. Hunt came to Seattle and purchased the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', which he owned and published until he was forced to sell in the Panic of 1893. Circulation stood at 31,000 in 1911.〔 In 1912, editor Eric W. Allen left the paper to found the University of Oregon School of Journalism, which he ran until his death in 1944. William Randolph Hearst took over the paper in 1921, and the Hearst Corporation owns the ''P-I'' to this day.〔 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt had a special relationship with the ''P-I''. In 1936, 35 P-I writers and members of The Newspaper Guild went on three-month strike against "arbitrary dismissals and assignment changes and other 'efficiency' moves by the newspaper." The International Brotherhood of Teamsters joined the strike in solidarity.〔http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2495〕 Roger Simpson and William Ames co-wrote their book ''Unionism or Hearst: the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Strike of 1936'' on the topic.〔(Roger A. Simpson Papers. ) 1933-1994. 2.42 cubic feet (3 boxes), 15 sound tape reels.〕 Also in 1936, their son-in-law Clarence John Boettiger took over as publisher. He brought his wife Anna, the Roosevelts' daughter, to also work at the paper. Anna became editor of the women's page. Boettiger left Seattle to enter the U.S. Army in April 1943, while Anna stayed at the paper to help keep a liberal voice in the running of the paper. After Boettiger's absence, the paper increasingly turned conservative with Hearst's new acting publisher. Anna left Seattle in December 1943 to live in the White House with her youngest child, Johnny. This effectively ended the Roosevelt-Boettiger ties with the ''P-I''. On December 15, 2006, no copies were printed as a result of a power outage caused by the December 2006 Pacific Northwest storms. It was the first time in 70 years that publication had been suspended. On January 9, 2009, the Hearst Corporation announced that after losing money on it every year since 2000, Hearst was putting the ''P-I'' up for sale. The paper would be put on the market for 60 days, and if a buyer could not be found within that time, the paper would either be turned into an Internet-only publication with a drastically reduced staff, or closed outright. The news of the paper's impending sale was initially broken by local station KING-TV the night prior to the official announcement, and came as a surprise to the ''P-Is staff and the owners of rival newspaper the ''Seattle Times''. Analysts did not expect a buyer to be found, in view of declining circulation in the U.S. newspaper industry and other newspapers on the market going unsold. Five days before the 60-day deadline, the ''P-I'' reported that the Hearst Corporation had given several ''P-I'' reporters provisional job offers for an online edition of the ''P-I''. On March 16, 2009, the newspaper posted a headline on its front page, followed shortly after by a short news story, that explained that the following day's edition would be its final one in print. The newspaper's publisher, Roger Oglesby, was quoted saying that the ''P-I'' would continue as an online-only operation. Print subscribers had their subscriptions automatically transferred to the ''Seattle Times'' on March 18. , the ''P-I'' continues as an online-only newspaper. In September 2010, the site had an estimated 2.8 million unique visitors and 208,000 visitors per day.〔(seattlepi.com "Quantcast Audience Profile" ), ''quantcast'', September 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seattle Post-Intelligencer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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