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The daily Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the second leading newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. It has a daily circulation of 156,711 as of 2003.
The P-I, Seattle's first paper, was founded on December 10, 1863 as the Seattle Gazette by one J.R. Watson. The paper failed after a few years and was renamed the Weekly Intelligencer in 1867 by the new owner, Sam Maxwell. The Intelligencer merged with the Seattle Post in 1881, this being the origin of the present-day name.
Circulation stood at 31,000 in 1911.
William Randolph Hearst took over the paper in 1921. The Hearst Corporation owns the P-I to this day.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Times are run under a Joint Operating Agreement whereby advertising, production, marketing, and circulation are run by the Times for both papers. They maintain separate news and editorial departments. The papers put out a combined Sunday edition, whose circulation is 473,882, to which the P-I contributes only a small editorial section.
