Whither The Seattle P-I Journos?
When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer shuttered its print edition in March 2009, 140 journalists, copy editors, and other newsroom people lost their jobs.
Eighteen months later, many are again working. The shock has worn off, reports Ruth Teichroeb, who worked at the P-I until the end of the print edition, and who recently surveyed her former colleagues to see how they’re doing.
Out of the 140 newsroom employees, eighty two responded to Teichroeb’s survey. Half of those are working fulltime; half of the fulltime workers are in journalism, the rest elsewhere.
Nineteen people have started their own businesses.
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