Welcome

For hundreds of thousands of people in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, it's not morning without their P-I.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the oldest morning newspaper in the state of Washington and has a following throughout the Northwest. It has been "The Voice of the Northwest since 1863."

Atop the P-I's office building on the Elliott Bay waterfront, with its views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains, sits a beloved Seattle landmark: a huge steel, neon-lit globe bearing the slogan "It's in the P-I." Look for the globe in one form or another on every page of this Web site.

The heart of the Seattle P-I is the 100+ staffers led by Publisher Roger Oglesby and Managing Editor David McCumber. All are dedicated to providing both an independent editorial voice for the Seattle area and fiercely competitive, highly professional coverage of local, national and regional news, public affairs, sports, the arts and popular culture.

The P-I's press, pre-press, advertising, circulation and marketing functions have been handled since 1983 by The Seattle Times Co., acting as the Seattle Newspaper Agency, in a Joint Operating Agreement under the provisions of the federal Newspaper Preservation Act.

Our principal Web site, SeattlePI.com, has 4 million unique visitors per month, generating more than 45 million page views. Our other online brands include photo-sharing site MySeattlePics, pet-owner community MySeattlePets and the youth-oriented SPI.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper is part of The Hearst Corp., one of the world's larger diversified communications companies, with interests in newspaper, magazine, book and business publishing; television and radio broadcasting; cable network programming; newspaper features distribution; television production and distribution; and interactive media activities.

Hearst Magazines is the largest publisher of monthly magazines in the world with 16 leading consumer magazines in the U.S. and more than 60 international editions.
Circulation of Hearst's 12 daily newspapers makes it the 11th largest daily publisher in the U.S., sixth largest on Sunday.
Hearst-Argyle Television Inc. owns or operates 26 TV stations and seven radio stations, reaching about 16 percent of the U.S. market.
Hearst-owned King Features group is the world's largest distributor of newspaper comics and text features.
Cable interests include partial ownership of Lifetime, A&E, History Channel, ESPN, ESPN2 and New England Cable News.
In Interactive Media, Hearst manages a wide variety of consumer and business-related internet sites and makes strategic investments in internet-related companies including iVillage, Hire.com, Mobility Technologies and E Ink Corporation. Investments also include Scene 7, drugstore.com, Circles, Starmedia Network and Liveworld.