Editing The Seattle Times (section)

==History==
''The Seattle Times'' originated as the ''Seattle Press-Times'', a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily [[Newspaper circulation|circulation]] of 3,500, which [[Maine]] teacher and attorney [[Alden J. Blethen]] bought in 1896.<ref name="overview">{{cite web |url=http://www.seattletimescompany.com/communication/overview.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131022007/http://www.seattletimescompany.com/communication/overview.htm |archive-date=January 31, 2014 |title=Overview of the Seattle Times |work=The Seattle Times }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7896 |title=The Seattle Times publishes its first edition edited by new co-owner Alden J. Blethen on August 10, 1896 |first=Walt |last=Crowley |date=August 10, 2006 |encyclopedia=HistoryLink.org – The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History}}</ref> 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. In 1966, the publication changed to its current name of ''The Seattle Times''.<ref name="LOChistory">{{cite web |title=The Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, Wash.) 1896-1966 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86072007/ |website=Library of Congress |publisher=United States |access-date=3 September 2021}}</ref>

''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.<ref>[http://www.ajr.org/article_printable.asp?id=73 ''American Journalism Review'': 40 Years Of Death In The Afternoon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060330063606/http://www.ajr.org/article_printable.asp?id=73 |date=March 30, 2006 }}</ref> This placed the ''Times'' in direct competition with its [[Joint Operating Agreement]] (JOA) partner, the morning ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]''.<ref>{{cite news |date=March 5, 2000 |title=Seattle Times Shifts to Mornings |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/05/us/seattle-times-shifts-to-mornings.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=January 28, 2016}}</ref> Nine years later, the ''Post-Intelligencer'' became an online-only publication.<ref name="PI-2009">{{cite news |last=Pérez-Peña |first=Richard |date=March 11, 2009 |title=As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12papers.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=January 28, 2016}}</ref>

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 (state)|Washington]], and formerly owned several newspapers in [[Maine]] that were later sold to [[MaineToday Media]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Richards|first=Bill|date=June 2009|title=Blethen's Choice|work=Seattle Business Magazine|url=http://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/article/blethens-choice|access-date=June 28, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Mapes |first=Lynda V. |date=June 16, 2009 |title=Times Co. completes long-stalled sale of Maine newspapers |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/business/times-co-completes-long-stalled-sale-of-maine-newspapers/ |newspaper=The Seattle Times |access-date=June 28, 2016}}</ref> [[The McClatchy Company]] owns 49.5% of voting common stock in the Seattle Times Company, formerly held by [[Knight Ridder]] until 2006.<ref>{{cite news |date=March 14, 2006 |title=McClatchy Now Gets 49% of 'Seattle Times'–And Gains 2 Other Washington Papers |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/mcclatchy-now-gets-49-of-seattle-times-and-gains-2-other-washington-papers/ |work=[[Editor & Publisher]] |access-date=June 28, 2016 |archive-date=August 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828100133/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/mcclatchy-now-gets-49-of-seattle-times-and-gains-2-other-washington-papers/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>