This week marks The Seattle Times’ 125th anniversary. We are the oldest continuous family metro newspaper stewardship in the United States.
In recent years, we have used this occasion to explain the national crisis of our failing local free press system — how this crisis has threatened our democracy, exacerbated societal fault lines and divisiveness, and enabled the spread of destructive false information. Today, for the first time in three decades, I can share that we are seeing hopeful signs of saving and rebuilding our platform of democracy — the local free press system!
