Now that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is taking the big plunge and going online only, it has stepped away from a peer group of newspapers that have just been dipping their toes online up to this point. Needless to say, the PI represents the great American journalism experiment on whether “traditional” news sources have a future in the new world. Unfortunately for the PI and hundreds of newspapers across the nation, they’re playing catch-up. So to help usher in this new era and make sure they do it right, here’s my list of the five highest priority items they must embrace immediately or regret they never did.

Loose the current site

Step one is the most dramatic of them all. Tuesday March 17th was the last print edition of the PI and their Web site still looked like this… Read the rest of this entry »

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