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Seattle Times Back in Black

Headline: Newspaper Makes Money!

How’d that happen?

New York Times reports:

… a nearly forgotten word has crept back into Times executives’ vocabulary: profit. “On a month-to-month basis, we are starting to operate in the black,” Mr. Blethen, who is also chief executive of The Seattle Times Company, said in an interview last week.

… Oddly enough, what remains of The P-I is also faring better than expected. The Hearst Corporation kept the paper’s Web site alive as a news operation with a small staff, heavily reliant on more than 200 unpaid bloggers who write on things as diverse as their neighborhoods, cooking and marathon running.

Kevin D. Williamson is a former fellow at National Review Institute and a former roving correspondent for National Review.
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