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Seattle, Tucson papers folding this week
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will print its last edition March 17 but Hearst Corp. said it will continue to distribute news and information through the seattlepi.com Web site.
"Tonight we'll be putting the paper for the bed for the last time," Editor and Publisher Roger Oglesby said in a story posted by the P-I.
Hearst placed the paper up for sale Jan. 9 and said it would close it within 60 days if no buyer could be found.
In the meantime, it floated plans to continue operating the P-I as a Web-only news organization, with only a portion of the staff now employed by the 117,000-subscriber newspaper.
Elsewhere, the Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen will print its last edition March 21. Gannett Co. Inc. said it would close the daily, which reaches about 20,000 subscribers, if it couldn't find a buyer.
The papers' closures bring to three the number of dailies shuttered since Feb. 27, when the (Denver) Rocky Mountain News published its last edition.
Source: Newspapers & Technology
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