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The Seattle Times originated as the Seattle Press-Times, a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500. The Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought it in 1896. Then it was renamed the Seattle Daily Times, it doubled its circulation within half a year. By 1915, circulation stood at 70,000.
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The paper moved to its current headquarters at 1000 Denny Way in the year 2011. 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.
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The Times was in direct competition with its JOA (Joint Operating Agreement) partner, the morning Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Nine years later, the P-I became an online-only publication. 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).
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