What ever happened to the East Side Journal newspaper? (Seattle: bus, commuters)

[bostonguy1960]

On my Seattle visit in 1992, I bought a daily newspaper called the East Side Journal. On my last visit a couple months ago, it was nowhere to be found. Even 5-10 years ago, I'd access it online.

Did it go out of business? When?

So no daily paper covers the East Side? Do Bellevue, Kirkland, etc. at least have weekly papers?

[Ira500]

In the 80's it was the Bellvue Journal-American. Then it was the Eastide Journal. Then it merged with the South County Journal ( which in the 80's was the Valley Daily News, serving Renton, Kent, and Auburn)to become the King County Journal somewhere around 2005, then it went out of business altogether in 2006 or 2007. The Seattle Weekly used to have a sister paper on the eastside, Eastside Week, and that's gone too. These are not good times for the newspaper industry. I think the Seattle Times publishes an eastside edition, or at least they used to. There also used to be a Bellevue Business Journal that stopped publishing around 2009. Online, eastsidebusinessjournal.com continues, as well as bellevue.patch.com.

[bostonguy1960]

Ira500: thanks for the history lesson. That's too bad, especially losing the P-I print edition.

You'd think Bellevue and Kirkland would have weeklies.

In the Boston area, we're so blessed with regional dailies within 30-40 miles of Boston, plus it seems almost every community has a weekly, whether free or $1 or $2. Oh, and we're still a two newspaper town. We even have the wildly popular "Metro" on weekdays, a freebie which 90% of commuters glance or read. It's supposedly the largest circulated daily paper...in the world, but I don't think it permeates any American commute as in Boston. It's in newsboxes and hawked by news carriers at the subways. I think the Boston Globe has an interest in our local version. It's been around about ten years. It's rare to see anybody reading the Globe or Herald on public transit in recent years.

Seattle always ranks higher than Boston in those "most liberate cities" polls. Maybe everyone in your area reds books on their commutes? They surely do here as well. But does anyone read the Seattle Times during their bus commute, or it's all books, nooks and tablets only?

[poopskooper]

I heard at one time that there was a hard copy of a small weekly that I frequently read online. It's called the Bellevue Reporter. Can anybody confirm or deny if they are still publishing a hard copy at the end of each week?




eta: hmmm, I just noticed that there is also a Kirkland Reporter under the same banner. Anybody familiar with these pertaining to an actual hard weekly newspaper? ...are they one and the same?

[BellevueNative]

Originally Posted by poopskooper

I heard at one time that there was a hard copy of a small weekly that I frequently read online. It's called the Bellevue Reporter. Can anybody confirm or deny if they are still publishing a hard copy at the end of each week?




eta: hmmm, I just noticed that there is also a Kirkland Reporter under the same banner. Anybody familiar with these pertaining to an actual hard weekly newspaper? ...are they one and the same?

They share a publisher. There is also the Bothell Reporter, Kenmore Reporter and others. Those are eastside weekly newspapers.

People here still read the newspaper - more of them just read it online these days. The P-I still exists as an online pub, too. Boston will likely lose one of its papers soon; one of them almost went out of business a few years ago.