The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States and its suburbs. Founded in 1891, it has been owned by the Blethen family since 1896. The Seattle Times has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region. The Seattle Times had a longstanding rivalry with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer until the latter ceased publication in 2009. The Seattle Times Company, which owns and publishes the paper, is mostly owned by the Blethen family, which holds 50.5% of the company. McClatchy owns 49.5%. History The Seattle Times originated as the Seattle Press-Times, a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500, which Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought in 1896. Renamed the Seattle Daily Times, it doubled its circulation within half a year. By 1915, circulation stood at 70,000. The newspaper moved to the Times Square Building at 5th Avenue and Olive Way in 1915. It built a new headquarters, the Seattle Times Building, north of Denny Way in 1930. The paper moved to its current headquarters at 1000 Denny Way in 2011. In 1966 the publication changed to its current name of The Seattle Times.