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The Seattle Times was founded in 1891, but Ald J. Blethen purchased the struggling Seattle Press-Times in 1896 to establish the family legacy. Blethen renamed the publication the Seattle Daily Times and transformed it into a regional powerhouse that reached 70,000 readers by 1915.
The Blethen family maintains ownership of The Seattle Times and holds 50.5% of the Seattle Times Company today. The remaining 49.5% of the company is held by the McClatchy Company, which acquired the stake from Knight Ridder in 2006.
The Seattle Times made the decision to switch from afternoon delivery to morning publication on the 6th of March 2000. This strategic pivot allowed the newspaper to survive in a changing media landscape and become the sole major daily newspaper in the city after the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased print publication nine years later.
The paper's headquarters moved to 1000 Denny Way in 2011 and is scheduled to relocate to a new location in the Cascade neighborhood in 2026. This move reflects the ongoing evolution of the institution and its commitment to maintaining a physical presence in Seattle.
The Seattle Times has earned 11 Pulitzer Prizes, with the most recent award given in 2020 for national reporting on the Boeing 737 MAX crashes. The newspaper also won the 1975 Spot News Photography prize and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series on methadone deaths.