A No-Newspaper Town?

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A No-Newspaper Town?
Imagining Seattle without a daily paper  -- A 3-part series

As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer prepares to stop printing and The Seattle Times struggles with its own financial problems, it’s conceivable that by next year, Seattle could be a city with no daily newspapers. Is it a crisis? What will we lose? And what’s ahead?

In our series, A No-Newspaper Town?, KPLU explores some of these questions. We offer three stories, beginning with an audio diary of a Seattle PI reporter who’s living through the last days of our state’s oldest newspaper. In Part II, we take an in-depth look at the most expensive part of newspaper journalism – investigative reporting – and what it could mean if this type of labor-intensive watchdog work goes away. And in Part III, we gaze deep into the vacuum – and glimpse what might emerge if the newspapers as we’ve known them disappear.
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  The Three-Part Series
Audio Diary: The Final Days in P-I's Newsroom
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If Dailies Disappear, Who Will Play the Watchdogs?
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Residents Imagine a Post-Paper Seattle
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