The Seattle Star was a free, neighborhood newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

, United States

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, covering the south and central sections of the city. Founded in 2002 as the South Seattle Star, it changed its name to the Seattle Star in 2004. It was distributed free.

With the May 18-31, 2005, issue, the Star merged with the Seattle Sun to form the Seattle Sun and Star

Seattle Sun and Star

The Seattle Sun and Star was a free, bi-weekly neighborhood newspaper in Seattle, Washington, USA formed in 2005 by the merger of the Seattle Star and Seattle Sun newspapers. The new publication put out only two issues: May 18-31, 2005, and July 1, 2005....

. It printed its last issue on July 1, 2005.

The Star was unusual for being a well written neighborhood newspaper whose issues regularly featured investigative reporting. The difficulty of adhering to such high editorial standards while meeting the bottom line of a free neighborhood tabloid ultimately pushed it under.