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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Moves Online

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The Seattle Post- Intelligencer (P-I) will become the nation's largest daily newspaper to move entirely online, its publisher Hearst Corporation announced today.

The announcement was made by Frank A. Bennack, Jr., vice chairman and chief executive officer, Hearst Corporation, and Steven R. Swartz, president of Hearst Newspapers. The final print edition of the newspaper will appear tomorrow.

Steven R. Swartz

"We extend our profound gratitude and admiration to our P-I colleagues who have done such an exemplary job under extremely difficult circumstances over the past several years. Our goal now is to turn seattlepi.com into the leading news and information portal in the region."

On January 9,

"The site will also feature a digital yellow pages directory powered by Hearst's yellow pages unit, White Directory Publishers."

The majority of the P-I's staff is expected to lose their jobs. The online version of the P-I will have a much smaller staff.

In January, Nielsen ranked seattlepi.com among the top 30 newspaper Web sites with 1.8 million unique users. The site has an average of 4 million unique monthly visitors, according to internal Hearst tracking.

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