Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen to step down next year

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Seattle Times publisher and CEO Frank Blethen will step down at the end of 2025, the newspaper reported Monday.

The 79-year-old Blethen has helmed The Seattle Times since 1985. Blethen, the newspaper’s seventh publisher, became publisher and CEO after the previous publisher, Jerry Pennington, died in a boating accident. Blethen's career at the Times started in 1968 as an assistant credit manager.

Blethen’s father was president of the family-owned company from 1944 to 1967. Frank Blethen's great-grandfather Alden Blethen acquired The Seattle Daily Times in 1896.

While Blethen did not say who he would like to succeed him as publisher, he did say he preferred it to be a member of the Blethen family, according to the Times.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2024/05/13/seattle-times-publisher-frank-blethen-announces-pl.html

[leftieNanner]

1. As long as it remains a good newspaper

And doesn't get sold to a hedge fund.

The Seattle Times is excellent.