Seattle’s Papers Back to Arbitration

An update on a story we've been tracking: last Thursday the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer re-affirmed their desire to settle their dispute in binding arbitration. This had been challenged by the Comittee for a Two-Newspaper Town. In April a King County judged sided with the comimtte, after which the Newspaper Guild local that had funded the committee voted to withdraw from the group.

Ending the Joint Operating Agreement effectively ends the Post-Intelligencer, and ends -- as you may have inferred from the above -- Seattle's run as a multi-daily newspaper city. This is important for comics because Seattle is one of the last remaining such towns, which means that not only does two papers means 2X the comics, the papers compete for comics which means even more sales for strip they keep in reserve or put on their web site.

The case will be decided by May 2007.
 
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