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]
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.
The PI didn’t have rich east-siders as its key demographic. It was more in tune with the actual city’s zeitgeist.
Similar to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution which is a merger of the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution.
what’s not similar is the fact that “Post-Intelligencer” could be used as a campaign slogan
I think this is pretty common. If your local newspaper has a hyphen in it, it probably used to be two papers.
I think most reporting these days is post intelligence
I’m skeptical of your skepticism
That sounds like an intelligent approach
Reminds me of compound words that are made by joining to independent words using a hyphen to make a unified compound-word.
