Seattle Daily Times
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The July 4, 2006 front page of
The Seattle Times |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The Seattle Times Company |
| Publisher | Frank A. Blethen |
| Editor | Don Shelton |
| Founded | 1891 |
| Headquarters | 1000 Denny Way Seattle, Washington 98109 United States |
| Circulation | 229,764 Daily 336,363 Sunday (averages for the six-month period ending March 31, 2013) |
| ISSN | 0745-9696 |
| OCLC number | 9198928 |
| Website | seattletimes |
The Seattle Times is a newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest-circulation daily newspaper in the state of Washington and has the largest Sunday circulation in the Pacific Northwest.
The Seattle Times originated as the Seattle Press-Times, a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500, which Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought in 1896. Renamed the Seattle Daily Times, it doubled its circulation within half a year. By 1915, circulation stood at 70,000.
The newspaper moved to the Times Square Building at 5th Avenue and Olive Way in 1915. It built a new headquarters, the Seattle Times Building, north of Denny Way in 1930. The paper moved to its current headquarters at 1000 Denny Way in 2011.
The Seattle Times switched from afternoon delivery to mornings on March 6, 2000, citing that the move would help them avoid the fate of other defunct afternoon newspapers. This placed the Times in direct competition with its JOA partner, the morning Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Nine years later, the P-I became an online-only publication.
The Times is one of the few remaining major city dailies in the United States independently operated and owned by a local family (the Blethens). The Seattle Times Company, while owning and operating the Times, also owns three other papers in Washington, and formerly owned several newspapers in Maine that were sold to MaineToday Media.The McClatchy Company owns 49.5 percent of voting common stock in the Seattle Times Company, formerly held by Knight Ridder until 2006.
The Times reporting has received 10 Pulitzer Prizes, most recently for its breaking news coverage of the 2014 landslide that killed 43 people in Oso, Wash. It has an international reputation for its investigative journalism, in particular. In April 2012, investigative reporters Michael Berens and Ken Armstrong won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series documenting more than 2,000 deaths caused by the state of Washington's use of methadone as a recommended painkiller in state-supported care. In April 2010, the Times staff won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage, in print and online, of the shooting deaths of four police officers in a Lakewood coffee house and the 40-hour manhunt for the suspect."
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