In 1878, after publishing the Intelligencer as a morning daily, printer Thaddeus Hanford bought the Daily Intelligencer for $8,000. Hanford also acquired Beriah Brown’s daily Puget Sound Dispatch and the weekly Pacific Tribune and folded both papers into the Intelligencer. In 1881, the Intelligencer merged with the Seattle Post. The names were combined to form the present-day name.[2]

  • @essell
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    220 hours ago

    I think most reporting these days is post intelligence

      • @essell
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        218 hours ago

        That sounds like an intelligent approach

  • I'm back on my BS 🤪
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    120 hours ago

    Reminds me of compound words that are made by joining to independent words using a hyphen to make a unified compound-word.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 day ago

    I think this is pretty common. If your local newspaper has a hyphen in it, it probably used to be two papers.

  • @weariedfae
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    31 day ago

    When it was in print I used to read it every day at work since it was in the break room and this was before I had a smart phone (they were around, I just didn’t have one). I miss it, I always preferred it over the Seattle Times though I couldn’t tell you what about it was preferable.

    • @Tujio
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      21 day ago

      The PI didn’t have rich east-siders as its key demographic. It was more in tune with the actual city’s zeitgeist.

  • @son_named_bort
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    21 day ago

    Similar to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution which is a merger of the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution.

    • AatubeOP
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      21 day ago

      what’s not similar is the fact that “Post-Intelligencer” could be used as a campaign slogan