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The daily Seattle Times is the leading newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. It began as the Seattle Press-Times, a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500, which Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought in 1896. Renamed the Seattle Daily Times, it doubled its circulation within half a year, and by 1915, circulation stood at 70,000. As of 2003, daily circulation stands at 231,621.
The Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer 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.
Publishing history of predecessor papers
In 1886, Seattle Daily Call, extant 1885, merged with Seattle Daily Chronicle, extant 1881, to form Seattle Daily Press. Name changed to Seattle Press 1891.
Seattle Daily Times founded 1883; name changed to Seattle Times 1889.
Seattle Press and Seattle Times merged 1891 to form the Seattle Press-Times.
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