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Known as the P-I, and originally founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published daily in broadsheet format until ceasing print publication on March 17, 2009 and going online entirely.

The online version will cover mostly local news, with an editorial staff of only twenty people, less than one-seventh of the 150 staff that worked at the paper before the closure.

The P-I’s owner, the Hearst Corporation, put the 145-year old paper up for sale in early January of 2009, but was not able to find a suitable buyer with its 60 day self-imposed deadline.

When the sale was announced, it was also stated that if a buyer could not be found, the paper would either be closed, or reduced to an online-only publication with a much smaller staff.

The closure of P-I leaves the city with just one other daily, The Seattle Times.