The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times
The July 4, 2006 front page
of The Seattle Times
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The Seattle Times Company
PublisherFrank A. Blethen
EditorMichele Matassa Flores
Founded1891 (1891) (as Seattle Press-Times)
Headquarters1000 Denny Way
Seattle, Washington
98109
Circulation210,156 (as of 2022)[1]
ISSN0745-9696
OCLC number9198928
Websiteseattletimes.com

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%.

  1. ^ "The Decline of Local News and Its Impact on Democracy" (PDF). League of Women Voters of Washington Education Fund. November 14, 2022.