In my piece, From Print to Pixels – The Seattle P-I, I make a comparison between the Capital Times, Madison WI, and the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle WA. Both were major print newspapers and both have moved to online delivery.

The year since the Cap Times has gone to "mostly" online only, the newspaper industry at large has seen many changes.

Paul Fanlund, Cap Times editor, brought me up to date on the "paper" and their relationship with their sister company, the Wisconsin State Journal. The company is successfully straddling the online/offline divide; now there are two printed Cap Times tabloids distributed in the State Journal: one for news and opinion and one for arts and entertainment.

According to an article published March 18, on WISBusiness.com:

"Things have really continued to evolve," says Cap Times editor Paul Fanlund, who came to the paper in 2006 after a reporting-editing career at the Wisconsin State Journal and a 5 1/2-year stint as vice president of operations at Capital Newspapers.

With the news business, indeed the whole economy, imploding in the last 12 months, the once-shocking cessation of a daily ink-on-paper Cap Times "seems like five years ago now," he says.


Read more about how the Cap Times has become a trend-setter. We'll be watching the balancing act that the Cap Times, the P-I, and other newspapers and magazines perform as they keep one foot in the print world and one foot in the online world.