Seattle Papers Renew Disputed JOA

In a surprise twist to the multi-year saga of two Seattle newspapers arguing over a joint operating agreement that one paper said was crippling them and the other said was their only way to survive, the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer agreed Monday to a revised deal that extends a version of the arrangement for the next nine year. In doing so, they avoid binding arbitration and settled all potential legal confrontations.

This story is important to newspaper strips because the dissolution of the JOA would have likely doomed the Post-Intelligencer. This would have meant the end to major newspaper exposure for two pages worth of comics features, the cessation of the P-I's dependable posting of its strips on-line (a top three web destination in terms of newspapers that feature comics), and by making Seattle a one-paper town would have cost features that sold to one publication or the other to keep it out of the other's hands, meaning even more efforts than just those on the P-I pages would have lost a crucial sale.
 
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