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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States. The newspaper was founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette, and was later published daily in broadsheet format.
Royal Brewer Brougham (September 17, 1894 – October 30, 1978) [1] was one of the longest tenured employees of a U.S. newspaper in history, working for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in Seattle, Washington, primarily as sports editor, for 68 years, starting at age 16.
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The Seattle Municipal Archive accepted US$100,000 from the National Archives and Records Administration to process records. [ 3 ] By 2002 many of the archives photographs from before the 1930s had begun to deteriorate and the archival budget did not allow for all of them to be digitized to contemporary quality standards for archives. [ 4 ]
The 1936 strike against the Seattle P-I was the first time in Seattle history that a newspaper staff went on strike. [11] This was the first successful strike for the Newspaper Guild and one of the first instances of white-collar workers holding a successful strike, while building a reputation that Washington State laborers had power. [12]
Born in Seattle in 1918, Watson and twin brother Clement were the sons of Garfield and Lena McWhirt. [1] Emmett's mother and twin brother died of Spanish Influenza the following year; his father, an itinerant laborer unable to care for his 14-month-old son, arranged for Emmett's adoption by long-time friends John and Elizabeth Watson of West Seattle.