The end-of-the-month showdown between the Seattle Times Co. [http://www.seattletimescompany.com/] and Teamsters Local 174 [http://www.teamsters174.org/] truckers appears to be off, for now anyway. Times Co. senior vice president for human resources Alayne Fardella, in an update sent to the paper's e
In Maine, where the majority-owning Blethen family rediscovered its roots a decade ago, the Seattle Times Co. is selling three prominent dailies – at a nadir for the newspaper business. It's a bad sign.
Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen's new mantra for his paper's employees goes like this, according to an in-house memo circulated around the Seattle paper on Monday: "Survive'ꀦtransform'ꀦtransition'ꀦthrive." Sounds kind of catchy, but so far the Times seems to be hung up on the "survive"
McClatchy Co. has an ownership interest in almost half of newspapers published daily in Washington, including the Seattle Times. Here's a look at how they may be faring and feeling in the wake of the Times' Maine newspaper sale.
Last week was tough for the folks at the Seattle Times Co. [http://www.seattletimescompany.com/] The flagship Seattle Times carried through on a plan to cut the paper's staff of 1,845 by about 7 percent, or 125 employees. Meanwhile, in a federal securities filing last Friday, May 9, Sacramento-based
