The Hearst Corporation has indicated that it might turn one of its major daily titles, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, into a web-only news outlet,
The paper, with a weekday circulation of more than 100,000, lost £10m last year. It shares production and delivery expenses with its larger rival, The Seattle Times, under a joint operating pact.
Hearst said in January that if it could not sell the Post-Intelligencer by this Tuesday, it would stop printing the paper and either shut it down or become a much smaller online publisher. No buyer has emerged.
It would be the first large American newspaper to stop printing but continue publishing online. A few smaller papers have already made that move. (Sources: New York Times/Wall Street Journal)
