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Founded in 1891, The Seattle Times has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the state of Washington and the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Northwest" title="Pacific Northwest">Pacific Northwest region</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Seattle_Times_Company" title="The Seattle Times Company">The Seattle Times Company</a>, which owns and publishes the paper, is mostly owned by the Blethen family, which holds 50.5% of the company; the other 49.5% is owned by <a href="/wiki/McClatchy" title="McClatchy">The McClatchy Company</a>. The Blethen family has owned and operated the newspaper since 1896. <table class="infobox vcard ib-newspaper"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">The Seattle Times</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Seattletimes-frontpage.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Seattletimes-frontpage.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="367" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="367"></a><div class="infobox-caption">The July 4, 2006 front page of The Seattle Times</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Daily_newspaper" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily newspaper">Daily newspaper</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Format</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Broadsheet" title="Broadsheet">Broadsheet</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Seattle_Times_Company" title="The Seattle Times Company">The Seattle Times Company</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Blethen" title="Frank Blethen">Frank A. Blethen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Michele Matassa Flores</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1891; 133 years ago (1891) (as Seattle Press-Times)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">1000 Denny Way <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a> 98109</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Newspaper_circulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper circulation">Circulation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">210,156 (as of 2022)<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0745-9696">0745-9696</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> number</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9198928">9198928 </a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://seattletimes.com">seattletimes.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The Seattle Times had a longstanding rivalry with the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Post-Intelligencer" title="Seattle Post-Intelligencer">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</a> until the latter ceased physical publication in 2009. The Seattle Times has received 11 <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prizes</a> and is widely renowned for its <a href="/wiki/Investigative_journalism" title="Investigative journalism">investigative journalism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-overview-2">[2]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History">1 History</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Awards">2 Awards</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Controversies">3 Controversies</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#2002_headline_controversy">3.1 2002 headline controversy</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#2012_election_controversy">3.2 2012 election controversy</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Joint_Operating_Agreement">4 Joint Operating Agreement</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Content">5 Content</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Delivery_and_page_width">6 Delivery and page width</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#References">7 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#External_links">8 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="History">History</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> The Seattle Times originated as the Seattle Press-Times, a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily <a href="/wiki/Newspaper_circulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspaper circulation">circulation</a> of 3,500, which <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a> teacher and attorney <a href="/wiki/Alden_J._Blethen" title="Alden J. Blethen">Alden J. Blethen</a> bought in 1896.<a href="#cite_note-overview-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> Renamed the Seattle Daily Times, it doubled its circulation within half a year. By 1915, circulation stood at 70,000. The newspaper moved to the <a href="/wiki/Times_Square_Building" title="Times Square Building">Times Square Building</a> at 5th Avenue and Olive Way in 1915. It built a new headquarters, the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Times_Building" title="Seattle Times Building">Seattle Times Building</a>, north of Denny Way in 1930. The paper moved to its current headquarters at 1000 Denny Way in 2011. In 1966, the publication changed to its current name of The Seattle Times.<a href="#cite_note-LOChistory-4">[4]</a> The Seattle Times switched from afternoon delivery to mornings on March 6, 2000, citing that the move would help them avoid the fate of other defunct afternoon newspapers.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> This placed the Times in direct competition with its <a href="/wiki/Joint_Operating_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Operating Agreement">Joint Operating Agreement</a> (JOA) partner, the morning <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Post-Intelligencer" title="Seattle Post-Intelligencer">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</a>.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> Nine years later, the Post-Intelligencer became an online-only publication.<a href="#cite_note-PI-2009-7">[7]</a> The Times is one of the few remaining major city dailies in the United States independently operated and owned by a local family (the Blethens). The Seattle Times Company, while owning and operating the Times, also owns three other papers in <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>, and formerly owned several newspapers in <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a> that were later sold to <a href="/wiki/MaineToday_Media" title="MaineToday Media">MaineToday Media</a>.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_McClatchy_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The McClatchy Company">The McClatchy Company</a> owns 49.5% of voting common stock in the Seattle Times Company, formerly held by <a href="/wiki/Knight_Ridder" title="Knight Ridder">Knight Ridder</a> until 2006.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> The Seattle Times has received 11 <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prizes</a>,<a href="#cite_note-overview-2">[2]</a> most recently in 2020 for its national reporting of the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings" title="Boeing 737 MAX groundings">Boeing 737 MAX</a> crashes<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> by reporters Dominic Gates, Mike Baker, Steve Miletich and Lewis Kamb. It has an international reputation for its investigative journalism in particular.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> In April 2012, investigative reporters Michael Berens and Ken Armstrong won the <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Investigative_Reporting" title="Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting">Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting</a> for a series documenting more than 2,000 deaths caused by the state of Washington's use of <a href="/wiki/Methadone" title="Methadone">methadone</a> as a recommended painkiller in state-supported care.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> In April 2010, the Times staff won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage, in print and online, of the <a href="/wiki/2009_Lakewood_shooting" title="2009 Lakewood shooting">shooting deaths of four police officers</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Lakewood,_Washington" title="Lakewood, Washington">Lakewood</a> coffee house and the 40-hour manhunt for the suspect.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> A tenth Pulitzer Prize was awarded in 2015 for breaking news coverage of the <a href="/wiki/Oso_mudslide" class="mw-redirect" title="Oso mudslide">Oso mudslide</a>.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Times photographer Jerry Gay won the 1975 <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Spot_News_Photography" class="mw-redirect" title="Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography">Spot News Photography</a> prize for "<a href="/wiki/File:Lull_in_the_Battle.jpg" title="File:Lull in the Battle.jpg">Lull in the Battle</a>", an image of firefighters resting after fighting a house fire. In 1982, reporter <a href="/wiki/Paul_Henderson_(journalist)" title="Paul Henderson (journalist)">Paul Henderson</a> won the <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Investigative_Reporting" title="Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting">Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting</a> for his coverage of the case of <a href="/wiki/Wrongful_conviction_of_Steve_Titus" title="Wrongful conviction of Steve Titus">Steve Titus</a>. Titus had been wrongfully convicted of rape, and in a series of articles Henderson challenged the circumstantial evidence in the case, convincing the judge to reverse Titus' conviction.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Controversies" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2002_headline_controversy">2002 headline controversy</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2002 headline controversy" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In February 2002, The Seattle Times ran a subheadline "American outshines <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Kwan" title="Michelle Kwan">Kwan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irina_Slutskaya" title="Irina Slutskaya">Slutskaya</a> in skating surprise" after <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Hughes" title="Sarah Hughes">Sarah Hughes</a> won the gold medal at the <a href="/wiki/Figure_skating_at_the_2002_Winter_Olympic_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games">2002 Olympics</a>.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> Many Asian Americans felt insulted by the headline because Michelle Kwan is also American.<a href="#cite_note-TimesKwanApology-19">[19]</a> Asian American community leaders criticized the subheadline as perpetuating a stereotype that people of color can never be truly American.<a href="#cite_note-TimesKwanApology-19">[19]</a> The incident echoed a similar incident that happened with an <a href="/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC">MSNBC</a> article during the <a href="/wiki/1998_Winter_Olympics" title="1998 Winter Olympics">Winter games</a> in 1998,<a href="#cite_note-TimesKwanApology-19">[19]</a> which was reported on by Times.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> The newspaper's Executive Editor at the time of the controversy, Mike Fancher, issued an apology in the aftermath of the controversial headline.<a href="#cite_note-TimesKwanApology-19">[19]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2012_election_controversy">2012 election controversy</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2012 election controversy" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> On October 17, 2012, the publishers of The Seattle Times launched advertising campaigns in support of <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <a href="/wiki/Washington_gubernatorial_election,_2012" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington gubernatorial election, 2012">gubernatorial candidate</a> <a href="/wiki/Rob_McKenna" title="Rob McKenna">Rob McKenna</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Washington_Referendum_74_(2012)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Referendum 74 (2012)">state referendum</a> to legalize <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriage</a>. The newspaper's management said the ads were aimed at "demonstrating how effective advertising with The Times can be."<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> The advertisements in favor of McKenna represented an <a href="/wiki/USD" class="mw-redirect" title="USD">$</a>80,000 independent expenditure, making the newspaper the third largest contributor to his campaign.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> More than 100 staffers signed a letter of protest sent to Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen, calling it an "unprecedented act".<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Joint_Operating_Agreement">Joint Operating Agreement</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Joint Operating Agreement" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Seattle_Daily_Times_news_editor_quarters_-_1900.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Seattle_Daily_Times_news_editor_quarters_-_1900.jpg/220px-Seattle_Daily_Times_news_editor_quarters_-_1900.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="680" data-file-height="536"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 173px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Seattle_Daily_Times_news_editor_quarters_-_1900.jpg/220px-Seattle_Daily_Times_news_editor_quarters_-_1900.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="173" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Seattle_Daily_Times_news_editor_quarters_-_1900.jpg/330px-Seattle_Daily_Times_news_editor_quarters_-_1900.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Seattle_Daily_Times_news_editor_quarters_-_1900.jpg/440px-Seattle_Daily_Times_news_editor_quarters_-_1900.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>"Quarters of the news editor", one in a group of four photos in the brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900), collectively captioned "The Seattle Daily Times—Editorial Department"</figcaption></figure> From 1983 to 2009, the Times and Seattle's other major paper, the <a href="/wiki/Hearst_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearst Corporation">Hearst</a>-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer, were run under a "<a href="/wiki/Joint_Operating_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Operating Agreement">Joint Operating Agreement</a>" (JOA) whereby advertising, production, marketing, and circulation were controlled by the Times for both papers.<a href="#cite_note-overview-2">[2]</a> The two papers maintained their own identities with separate news and editorial departments. The Times announced its intention to cancel the JOA in 2003, citing a <a href="/wiki/Clause" title="Clause">clause</a> in the JOA contract that three consecutive years of losses allowed it to pull out of the agreement.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Hearst sued, arguing that a <a href="/wiki/Force_majeure" title="Force majeure">force majeure</a> clause prevented the Times from claiming losses as reason to end the JOA when they result from extraordinary events (in this case, a seven-week strike by members of the Newspaper Guild). While a district judge ruled in Hearst's favor, the Times won on appeal, including a unanimous decision from the <a href="/wiki/State_supreme_court" title="State supreme court">Washington State Supreme Court</a> on June 30, 2005.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> Hearst continued to argue that the Times fabricated its loss in 2002. The two papers announced an end to their dispute on April 16, 2007.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> The JOA was terminated when the Post-Intelligencer ceased publication; its final printed edition was March 17, 2009.<a href="#cite_note-PI-2009-7">[7]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Content">Content</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Content" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> The Times contains different sections every day. Each daily edition includes Main News & Business, a NW section for the day, Sports, and any other sections listed below.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Friday: NW Autos; Weekend Plus Saturday: NW Homes Sunday: Business; ShopNW; NW Jobs; NW Arts & Life; NW Traveler; Pacific NW Magazine Pacific NW is a glossy magazine published every week and inserted in the Sunday edition. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Delivery_and_page_width">Delivery and page width</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Delivery and page width" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> For decades, the <a href="/wiki/Broadsheet" title="Broadsheet">broadsheet</a> page width of the Times was <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>13+1⁄2 inches (34 cm), printed from a 54-inch web, the four-page width of a roll of <a href="/wiki/Newsprint" title="Newsprint">newsprint</a>. Following changing industry standards, the width of the page was reduced in 2005 by 1 inch (2.5 cm), to <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027">12+1⁄2 inches (32 cm), now a 50-inch web standard. In February 2009, the web size was further reduced to 46 inches, which narrowed the page by another inch to <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027">11+1⁄2 inches (29 cm) in width.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Seattle_Times&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lwvwa.org/resources/Documents/Studies/LocalNews/Decline%2036.pdf">"The Decline of Local News and Its Impact on Democracy"</a> (PDF). 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