Romenesko

Seattle Weekly
About a million households in the state of Washington get a David Black-owned newspaper, reports Don Ward. He writes: "The newspaper entity in Washington with the highest aggregate circulation is not the Blethen-operated Seattle Times and its affiliates, nor is it McClatchy, with its News Tribune, Tri-City Herald, and Olympian. Rather, it's Sound Publishing, a chain of some three-score community newspapers and shoppers that is a subsidiary of the British Columbia-based Black Press. And, wouldn't you know it, the company relies almost entirely on dead-tree editions to get its message across."